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Le château en bref
The Villa La Léopolda is a vast estate overlooking the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer, built between 1929 and 1931 by the American architect Ogden Codman Jr. on land that had belonged to Leopold II, King of the Belgians, who gave it its name. Codman brought together a dozen pre-existing buildings, including former farmhouses, within a neo-Palladian ensemble inspired by the Belle Époque. The estate, which covers some 7.3 hectares of gardens laid out by Codman himself, belonged successively to Ogden Codman Jr., to Izaak and Dorothy Killam, to Gianni and Marella Agnelli in the late 1950s, and then to Edmond and Lily Safra from 1987 to 2022. The villa remains a private property closed to the public.