Château de la Croix des Cardes

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Croix des Gardes is a villa built between 1920 and 1921 on the Croix-des-Gardes hill, in the Quartier des Anglais in Cannes. It was built for the Swiss industrialist Paul Girod, founder of the Ugine steelworks, based on an initial design entrusted to the architect J. Aznavour as early as 1916, subsequently taken over by Edmond Fatio and then carried out on site by the architect Pierre Nouveau from 1920. In 1927, the interior decoration was entrusted to André Carlhian on behalf of a new owner, Mr Goldman. The property was bought in 1960 by the industrialist Gustave Leven, head of the Perrier group, who undertook a major renovation campaign in 1970 in a neo-Palladian spirit, with a façade redesigned by the architect Alan Gore and interior decoration by John Fowler and Tom Parr. The estate owes part of its fame to the cinema: Alfred Hitchcock shot scenes of To Catch a Thief (1955) there, starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Surrounded by a park of several hectares laid out in a Mediterranean spirit, the château now belongs to private owners and is used as a reception venue and for exclusive hire.