Château de la Tour du Mont Boron

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Tour du Mont-Boron is a Neo-Medieval and eclectic-style villa built from 1884 onwards on the heights of Mont Boron in Nice. Its construction reuses one of the garden structures of the Château de l'Anglais, which explains its unusual form, made up of three interlocking cylinders crowned by a belvedere tower. The work was carried out by the Nice architect Sébastien-Marcel Biasini, trained at the École impériale des Beaux-Arts, on behalf of the Hungarian baron Maximilien von Budai. The property was bought in 1886 by Marguerite Catusse. The building combines medieval-inspired elements — crenellated towers, corbels — with Italian Renaissance references, including a semicircular loggia supported by six Corinthian columns in Carrara marble. The grand salon once held a panoramic wallpaper from the Zuber manufactory depicting views of Brazil, based on designs drawn in 1829. Praised for the originality of its composition by the art critic Henri Laffillée in 1899, the building is today protected under the local urban development plan of Nice (PLU no. 504) and divided into private apartments.