Villa Eilenroc

Villa Eilenroc is an exceptional French residence in neoclassical style located in the middle of an eleven hectare park, on the seafront, at Cap d'Antibes on the Côte d'Azur. This historic and prestigious residence is one of the famous villas on the Côte d'Azur which is open to the public, along with the Villa Kérylos and the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild. The villa was occupied by Leopold II of Belgium and King Farouk of Egypt. It is separated from the sea by the passage of the Tire-Poil path .

While European high society spent the winter on the Mediterranean Riviera , the rich Dutch ex- governor of the Dutch Indies Hugh-Hope Loudon had this luxurious residence built by the architect Charles Garnier between 1860 and 1867. He named it “Eilenroc” , an anagram of Cornélie, the first name of his wife. In 1873, the property was sold to the wealthy Scottish James Wyllie who had the park landscaped by gardeners as famous as Ringuisen. Upon his death in 1908, the estate was sold to Sir Coleridge Kennard then to the Sudreau couple followed by the American couple Louis Dudley Beaumont and Hélène Thomas in 1927. In 1982, Madame Hélène Beaumont (1895-1988) bequeathed her property to the city of Antibes on the condition of creating a “Beaumont Foundation” intended to manage and exploit this heritage and to open the park to the public with its olive grove and rose garden of a thousand plants.