Château Grimaldi

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château Grimaldi in Cagnes-sur-Mer was built in 1309 by Rainier Grimaldi, lord of Cagnes and admiral of France, on a site previously occupied by the Greeks and then the Romans. Laid out around a triangular courtyard, it retains medieval defensive features (machicolations and crenellations on the towers and the keep). During the reign of Louis XIII the apartments were redecorated, notably the great hall, whose painted ceiling depicting the Fall of Phaethon was executed in the 1620s by the Genoese painter Giulio Benso. Having become the residence of the provincial governors, then a barracks and a hospital after the Revolution, the château now belongs to the commune of Cagnes-sur-Mer, which has set up a municipal museum there. The building was listed as a historic monument (classé) by order of 15 April 1948, with the exception of two plots listed by decree of 5 May 1948.