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The Château Vallombrosa is a gigantic Neo-Gothic residence built in Cannes between 1852 and 1856 by Sir Thomas Robinson Woolfield on behalf of Lord Londesborough; it bore the names "Château des Tours" (also called "Villa Sainte-Ursule") and later "Hôtel du Parc".
In 1858 the château was acquired for 180,000 francs by Riccardo, or Richard-Marie-Jean Etienne Manca-Amat (1834-1903), Duke of Vallombrosa and Asinara, of Sardinian origin; he sold it in 1893 to the wealthy German hotelier Martin Ellmer, who from 1906 had it transformed by Laurent Vianay into a Baroque-style luxury hotel under the name Hôtel du Parc. Since 1934 it has been a co-owned apartment building. Among other anecdotes, it is worth noting that the buyers of each floor had at their disposal a floor space of about 800 m² in which their own apartment was created. For example, the ground floor, formerly the reception rooms of the luxury hotel, was acquired by a family to house its children and grandchildren.