Cap Ferrat is located in the Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France. The locale is rich in history. Saint Hospitius, who had been a monk in his native Egypt, lived here as a recluse in the sixth century. The cape is sometimes referred to as Cap-Saint-Hospice or Cap-Saint-Sopsis. Saint Hospitius immigrated to Gaul and retired to a decrepit tower, located on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat. The people of the surrounding community often ask his opinion; he warned them one time, around the year 575, of a coming attac of the Lombards. St Hospitius was capture by invaders, but was not killed. He worked a wonder in favor of one of the warriors, who became a convert, embraced the spiritual life, and was well-known personally to Saint Gregory of Tours. Cap Ferrat is now home to a lot of beautiful luxury villa for rent.
Cap Ferrat is once the domain of King Leopold II of Belgium, founder of the Congo Free State. King Leopold was born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he was the successor to his father to the throne in 1865 and remained king until the time of his death. He was the sibling of Empress Carlota of Mexico and cousin to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
The famous English writer, novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham, who wrote the classic novel Of Human Bondage, bought Villa Mauresque in 1928 and lived there before and after World War II. Villa Mauresque was originally built for Leopold’s father-confessor. Some of the current celebrity residents include Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in Villa Maryland and brilliant theatrical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber). Other celebrities have elected to stay in Cap Ferrat at luxury villa for rent.
Bounded by verdant and fertile mountain landscape and the peninsula shoreline at its feet, Villa O in Cap Ferrat of southeastern France is a luxury villa for rent that is worth a five-star rating. In fact, this gorgeous and elegant luxury villa for rent is a five-story house in a well-liked holiday hotspot. This luxury villa for rent is perched overlooking the water. This hillside luxury villa for rent has terraces and tiers designed with huge expanses of glass to take in the stunning and astonishing panoramic view. The glass wall house was designed to entertain guest and love ones, with the spacious patio leading into the home’s stylish yet laid-back living area. Each main room of the house leads out onto its own veranda, porch or patio. Open-air living quarters aside, this luxury villa for rent plan also joins the outdoors with over 4,500 square meters of gardens and snaking path lined with Cyprus trees, olive trees, eucalyptus tree, jasmine, rosemary and jacaranda. A pool outside is overlooked by a Balinese-inspired pool house. Take a modern glass elevator or a beautiful staircase to see all five floors. Plan your amazing South France vacation, at this amazing luxury villa for rent, Villa O
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