Château de Soligny

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Le château en bref

The Château de Soligny is a residence built in 1868 by the architect Rimbaud for Aristide Boucicaut, founder of the Grands Magasins du Bon Marché department store in Paris. It stands in the Californie district of Cannes, on Avenue du Roi-Albert-Ier, facing the Lérins Islands. The Baroque-style building rises on an estate of about one hectare that includes a wooded park of 8,000 m². It offers more than 1,200 m² of living space spread over some twenty rooms. After a period of decline, the château was bought at auction in 2011 for €17.5 million by the real-estate group Finamas, which carried out a major restoration and restructuring of the building, increasing its floor area by about 40%. The works notably added a cinema room, a lift and a wine cellar with a tasting room, while preserving certain original features such as a Baroque-style glass-roofed winter garden. The property was resold in 2019 for about €55 million, a record for the Cannes real-estate market at the time. Today the Château de Soligny is a private residential property.