Saint-Raphaël, 7 Bedrooms - 435 m² Villa for sale

Saint-Raphaël: just a few hundred metres from the town centre and the sea, this emblematic villa, built by the most famous architect of the Belle-Epoque, stands majestically in a vast park, imposing its spectacular façade and interior volumes of a rare scale.

With around 435 sqm of living space, it comprises a series of bright reception rooms with high ceilings and original cement tiles, offering dominant views all the way to the sea.
The spectacular stairwell with its splendid Art Deco banister leads to two floors of bedrooms.
On the garden level, a flat comprises a living room and two bedrooms.

The villa's extensive grounds of more than 4,000 sqm, part of which is listed, form an unspoilt setting around the villa, isolating it from its urban surroundings, with splendid Mediterranean trees over a hundred years old, and providing space for a swimming pool.
A detached garage completes the property.

This villa, unique in its genre for its monumentality and proportions, was built between 1880 and 1883 by Pierre Aublé, to whom we owe the basilica of Saint-Raphaël as well as the most beautiful villas of the period.
All the codes of the Belle Epoque on the Côte d'Azur can be found here: a dominant position, south-facing with views as far as the sea,a higher ground floor to take advantage of the view, a succession of reception rooms and, more unusually, a monumental stairwell.
The elevations are subtly animated, with the semi-circular windows on the ground floor responding to the pediments of the windows on the upper floors, the terracotta mascarons echoing the balusters of the railings, and the sober base evoking dressed stone responding to the cornices underlining each floor.

Less than an hour from Nice airport, between Monaco, Cannes and Saint-Tropez, this property in need of renovation embodies the splendour of the Belle-Epoque Riviera, offering unique potential both as a vast family home and as the headquarters of an institution looking for an iconic location.