Mansions and private mansions to visit Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Built for Queen Victoria of England and opened by the hotel on 12 March 1897, this hotel is the most majestic building built in the Belle Epoque in Nice. From the winter of 1895, the Sovereign of England carries out several stays on the French Riviera. It quickly needs a place that matches its prestige! We must not forget that, in this colonial period, the Queen of England reigns over about a quarter of the inhabitants of the planet!

She therefore entrusts the hotel Excelsior Regina Palace to the architect Sébastien-Marcel Biasini, for the modest sum of 40 000 gold francs. Soon, the hotel has its five floors and one hundred and fifty metres of facade at the top of the boulevard at Ruins. The entire left wing is reserved for the Queen because of the many subsequent follow-up. This belongs to the crown, which lies at the top of the dome on the extreme left of the building. As for the location chosen for the construction of the hotel, an element of the décor will seduce the Queen: The Roman remains of the ancient city of Cemenelum, located 10 metres away. Indeed, in the th century, we are in the midst of romantic times and the proximity of ruins ready for reverie. And the Queen also has this romance soul because she liked to walk in the afternoon on the boulevard of Ombragé shaded, in her car pulled by her donkey Jacquot and a little army of Indian, show that was the attraction of all the winterers!