French Riviera Apartments
Our Group,
Burger
Sotheby's International Realty, is the exclusive
representative of
Sotheby’s International
Realty® on the
French
Riviera.
Our Group has
6
offices to serve you (
Saint-Tropez,
Cannes,
Mougins,
Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat
and
Beaulieu-sur-Mer)
and includes carefully selected, experienced and professional real
estate brokers.
We invite you to discover some of the most prestigious properties, the
most luxurious villas, penthouses and high standard apartments for sale
and rent, in the south of France,
Cote
d'azur,
French
Riviera, in the regions of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat (
villa
Cap Ferrat,
apartment
Cap Ferrat), Saint Tropez (
villa
St Tropez,
apartment
St Tropez), Cap d'Antibes (
villa
Cap d'Antibes,
apartment
Cap d'Antibes), Mougins (
villa
Mougins,
apartment
Mougins) and Cannes (
villa
Cannes,
apartment
Cannes).
Luxury home for
sale and to rent : apartments, villa, property on the French
Riviera
The
French
Riviera is part of France's southeastern coast of the
Meditarranean Sea, reaching from Cassis to Menton, at the border with
Italy. Cannes
is host to the annual presentation of the Palm d'Or, wich attracts
movie stars from around the world.
Origins of the name French Riviera
The French Riviera took its name from the Italian Riviera, which
extends to the east of the French border as far as La Spezia.[13] As
early as the 19th century, the British referred to the region as the
Riviera or the French Riviera, usually referring to the eastern part of
the coast, between Monaco and the Italian border.[14] Riviera is an
Italian term - the Occitan (Niçard and Provençal)
word is Ribiera. In French, the term Rivière de
Gênes was used to refer to the Italian Riviera around Genoa.
Origins
of the name Côte d'Azur
The name was given to the coast by the writer Stéphen
Liégeard in his book, La Côte d’azur,
published in December 1887. Liégeard was born in Dijon, in
the French department of Côte-d'Or, and adapted that name by
substituting the azure blue colour of the Mediterranean for the gold of
Côte-d'Or.
French
Riviera
The Côte d'Azur, often known in English as the French
Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the south eastern corner of
France, extending from Menton near the Italian border in the east to
either Hyères or Cassis in the west.
This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a
winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th
century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it
became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other
aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was
Prince of Wales. In the first half of the 20th century it was
frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri
Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley, as well as
wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II it became a popular
tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as
Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially,
the Côte d'Azur is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962
foreign residents, although estimates of the number of non-French
nationals living in the area are often much higher.
Its largest city is Nice, which has a population of 347,060 (2006). The
city is the center of a communauté urbaine -
Nice-Côte d'Azur - bringing together 24 communes and over
500,000 inhabitants.
Nice is home to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, France's
second-busiest airport (after Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport), which
is on an area of partially reclaimed coastal land at the western end of
the Promenade des Anglais. A second airport at Mandelieu was once the
region's commercial airport, but is now mainly used by private and
business aircraft. The A8 autoroute runs through the region, as does
the old main road generally known as the Route nationale 7 (officially
now the D N7 in the Var and the D6007 in the Alpes-Maritimes). Trains
serve the coastal region and inland to Grasse, with the TGV Sud Est
service reaching Nice-Ville station in six hours from Paris.
The French Riviera also contains the seaside resorts of Cannes,
Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Beaulieu-sur-Mer,
Cap-d'Ail, Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël, and Saint-Tropez,
and surrounds the principality of Monaco, with a total population of
over two million. It is also home to a high-tech/science park or
technopole at Sophia-Antipolis and a research and technology center at
the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis - the region has 35,000
students, of whom 25% are working towards a doctorate.
The French Riviera is a major yachting centre, with marinas along its
coast. According to the Côte d'Azur Economic Development
Agency, each year the Riviera hosts 50% of the world's superyacht
fleet, with 90% of all superyachts visiting the region's coast at least
once in their lifetime.
As a tourist centre it benefits from 300 days of sunshine per year, 115
km of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000
restaurants.
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south of France, Cote d'Azur, French Riviera, Cannes,
Mougins,
Vallauris,
Cap
d'Antibes, St
Paul de Vence, Nice,
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Grimaud,
Sainte Maxime,
Beaulieu
sur Mer, Golfe
de St Tropez, Mouans
Sartoux, Antibes,
Grasse
Gassin,
St
Jean Cap Ferrat, St
Tropez, Arrière
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Exceptional Property with private Golf court in the heart of the Luberon