Outside, it is the immense and sumptuous garden that makes an impression: equipped with a marble swimming pool, an oasis with a pond of water lilies, fountains and varied vegetation, it also offers the possibility of creating stables.
Inside, it is the majestic staircase and the floors (also in marble) that stand out in this 1160 square meter house.
This estate, perched on a wooded hill, once belonged to the Kennedy family, who vacationed there.
It has just been put up for sale for 31.5 million euros by Sotheby's.
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The Kennedy summer residence is for sale on the French Riviera
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The work of a renowned architect
The property, located between the villages of Valbonne and Mougins, a few minutes from Cannes, therefore hosts an exceptional villa, built in 1920 by Jacques Couelle, a world-renowned architect.
The residence, which sits on a property of eighteen hectares and has fifteen rooms including nine bedrooms, hosted, in the summer, the future American President John F. Kennedy and his siblings.
Their father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was then, in the late 1930s, United States Ambassador to Great Britain.
Three Kennedys: Patricia, Jack and Eunice pose in their vacation property on the hills of Cannes, near the swimming pool.
They were the children of the United States Ambassador to Britain.
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Vast and legendary housing stock
It's not the first Kennedy property to make a splash on the real estate market.
On the American island of Martha's Vineyard, Jackie Kennedy's sheepfold was put up for sale in 2019 for the modest sum of 65 million dollars (61.3 million euros).
Two years later, his townhouse in Washington was put on the market for 10 million dollars (9.5 million euros).
After the assassination of her husband on November 22, 1963, she took refuge there for a year.
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Not far from this building, also in the chic Georgetown district, the 430m2 house in which John Fitzgerald Kennedy had moved in 1946, then freshly elected to the House of Representatives, had been sold for 4.2 million dollars (3.9 million euros). euros) in 2020. Walls that have housed an emblematic family marked by drama, and which help to perpetuate its legend.
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