The nine gardens
French, Japanese, Spanish, Florentine, stone, rose — each a small world of its own.
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A coastal bus from Nice's port towards Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat then a short uphill walk, or a train to Beaulieu-sur-Mer and fifteen minutes on foot. Driving takes twenty minutes on the lower corniche, with free parking.
Two unhurried hours for villa and gardens, three with lunch on the terrace. Add an hour to walk Cap Ferrat itself — the coastal path around the cape is one of the Riviera's finest.
The open gardens and dancing fountains make it one of the coast's most child-successful visits, with room to run. The villa interior is short and bearable for them.
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The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is among the loveliest visits on the whole Riviera. Baroness Béatrice de Rothschild built it in the early 1900s on the highest point of Cap Ferrat, so that the sea shows on both sides — the bay of Villefranche to your right, Beaulieu to your left. The rose-pink villa is filled with her collections: rare porcelain, royal furniture, paintings. But the gardens are the wonder: nine linked gardens in different styles — French, Spanish, Japanese, Florentine, a stone garden, a rose garden — with musical fountains dancing in front of the façade every twenty minutes. It gathers everything you want from one Riviera day: palace, gardens and sea on every side, plus a café whose terrace is one of the coast's finest. Below the cape sits the little harbour town of Saint-Jean.
French, Japanese, Spanish, Florentine, stone, rose — each a small world of its own.
Jets dancing to classical music before the pink façade.
Villefranche one way, Beaulieu the other — a site without equal on this coast.
Salons kept with their furniture and porcelain — a glimpse of the class that built the Riviera.
1 Avenue Ephrussi, 06230 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat