A private day tour combining Èze, Monaco, and Cap Ferrat with real interior access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild.
A private tour for your group only, with genuine interior access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and its real 9 botanical gardens.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real interior access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is included, alongside its genuine 9 botanical gardens and a gourmet tea in the Baroness's real sitting room.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Nice.
Genuine access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild.
Genuinely extensive grounds.
In the Baroness's real sitting room.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with genuine interior access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and its real 9 botanical gardens. This is a private tour for your group only. Real interior access to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is included, alongside its genuine 9 botanical gardens and a gourmet tea in the Baroness's real sitting room.
Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild exists because of one woman's very specific vision. Béatrice de Rothschild, heiress to the Rothschild banking fortune, acquired seven hectares of land on Cap Ferrat in 1905 and reportedly went through more than fifteen architects before settling on Jacques Marcel Aubertin, whose designs for a pink, Tuscan-palazzo-style villa finally matched what she had in mind. Construction ran from roughly 1907 to 1912 — a relatively fast build for a project this ambitious, driven by a client who was, by every account, deeply involved in every decision.
The nine themed gardens surrounding the villa took about as long to complete as the building itself, laid out under landscape architect Achille Duchêne (with Harold Peto also credited in some accounts) between 1905 and 1912: a formal French garden, a Spanish garden, a Japanese garden with a wooden pavilion and lanterns, a Florentine garden with a marble grotto, an exotic garden of giant cacti, a lapidary "stone garden" built from salvaged architectural fragments, a rose garden in the Baroness's favorite pink, and Provençal and Sèvres-themed gardens — genuinely nine distinct spaces, not a marketing rounding-up of a smaller number.
When Béatrice died in 1934, she bequeathed the entire villa and its collection — more than 5,000 artworks, Louis XVI furniture, Flemish tapestries, and Sèvres porcelain among them — to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which still operates it as a museum today. The gourmet tea included on this tour is served in what was the Baroness's own real sitting room, before the route continues on to Èze and the Monaco/Monte Carlo coastline.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.