French Riviera hides a lot of exceptional villas, focusing attention and causing envy. Some are ancients, others just renewed, and they host sometimes museums, sometimes residences with untouchable luxury. Let’s dive through those mythical buildings of French Riviera and succumb to the temptation of renting via Cap Riviera, your luxury real estate, a villa Cote d Azur amongst an upscale choice.

The most famous luxury construction in the French Riviera, residentially oriented, is the Palais Maeterlinck. Situated at the tip of cape of Nice, this building went through many vicissitudes,starting with the first project of three architects for an English man, but stopping right at its beginning, in 1913. In 1920, the count de Milléant’s project had to halt to: he wanted to build a rival casino of those of Monte-Carlo but, but since 1928, Nice launched its Palais de la Méditerranée. After this second miss, Belgium writer Maurice Maeterlinck bought and ended the construction work of the villa. He named it Orlamonde and, with the help of his niçoise wife Renée Dahon, organized there the sumptuous parties that gave the domain its international renown.

The tumultuous story doesn’t stop here, unfortunately, for the residence already well-known as the Palais Maeterlinck. Indeed, the domain is ravaged during World War II, plundered and squatted as the owners are in the USA. They came back and lived in this place until each death, in 1949 for Maurice Maeterlinck, in 1969 for Renée Dahon. Till 1983, the house is abandoned then rehabilitated in several apartments, under the will of the heir.

Between 1987 and 1990, the palace changed again of owner. Henri-Ferdinand Lavanchy pursued the dream of making an unrivalled luxury hostel residence. His success participated also at the place renown. Yet, once again, the marvelous palate is abandoned in 2008.

The last reborn of this mythical residence is very recent. Radovan Vitek acquired the property in June 2012 and just shows up the renewed splendor of the Palais Maeterlinck in May 2013, after construction work that is said that it cost as much as the domain’ buying.