Villa Grecque Kerylos

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Kerylos Is One of My Favorite Places to Take Guests

  • April 8, 2009
  • Rated 5 of 5 by NiceGinna from Evanston, Illinois
Kerylos Is One of My Favorite Places to Take Guests

This re-creation of a seaside villa of ancient Greece is a lovely place to spend an hour or so. Tickets are available individually at 8.50 euros or in combination with the Ephrussi de Rothschild Mansion on Cap Ferrat at 15 euros, so you could easily spend a day at the two with a nice lunch in between in St. Jean Cap Ferrat.

The villa was built by Theodore Reinach, a German with an intense interest in ancient Greece. With his architect, Emmanuel Pontremoli, Reinach envisioned a house based on the villas of the 2nd century BC on the Greek Island of Delos, with a central courtyard surrounded by 12 columns of Carrera marble. Everything in the villa is based on known records of how the Greeks lived, including the layout of the villa, wall paintings, and the furnishings of exotic woods. The mosaic tilework on the floors, the fresco paintings on the walls, the inlay work of ivory and coral on the furnishings are all authentic. And yet it was also built as a home to be lived in in the early 1900's.

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