Villa Ephrussi Rothschild

Helga design

The Rothschild family is a European family of German

Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century.

Between the port and the mainland in St Jean cap de

ferrat near Nice, the floridly beautiful Villa

Ephrussi de Rothschild bears witness to the

wealth and worldly flair of the baroness who built it,

Baroness Betrice de Rothschild – and she certainly put this villa

firmly on the map with her outrageous and

controversial style.

When you have a spectacular site of 7

hectares (17 acres) in the Mediterranean, the means

of a millionaire and the mind of a true aesthete how could you possibly settle for one garden?

Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild had travelled

extensively and seen different kinds of gardens around the world. So she

set her mind on creating all her favourite gardens to complement the dream palace she built on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat

about 10 kilometres to the east of Nice.

Precious artworks, tapestries, and

furniture adorn the salons—in typical

Rothschildian fashion, each is given over to a different 18th-

century “époque.” Upstairs are the

private apartments of Madame la

Baronne, which can only be seen on a guided tour offered around

noon.

Great Coat of ArmsOf

Rothschild family