Villa Cyrnos, Belle Époque villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.

Villa Cyrnos is a Belle Époque villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, built in 1892 to a design by Hans-Georg Tersling. Its light-coloured facade has a projecting central section with a hipped roof above three arched openings, a lower wing with a rose window and a balustraded balcony over the entrance, and a loggia of three round arches to the right. The facade is decorated with imperial eagles, and the grounds include a rotunda with colonnades, a terrace and a belvedere tower facing the sea.

Villa Cyrnos was built in 1892 by architect Hans-Georg Tersling for Eugénie de Montijo, widow of Napoleon III, as her own winter palace so she would no longer be a guest of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. In 1920 it passed to Marie-Laetitia Bonaparte, whose companion Norberto Fischer inherited it in 1926 and lived there until 1950; opera singer Vina Bovy sold it in 1960.

The name Cyrnos comes from ancient Greek and refers to Corsica, chosen to honor the Bonaparte family origins. This connection to the Napoleonic dynasty still shapes how the property is perceived along the Mediterranean coast.

The estate sits in a residential area above the coastal path and is reached by a narrow road that branches off the coastal road. Buses and trains to Monaco stop just a short walk away at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin station.

Queen Victoria, a friend of Eugénie, visited the villa annually, not just once. The name Cyrnos is ancient Greek for Corsica, chosen in memory of the island where Napoleon I was born. The facade carries imperial eagles, and the gardens were laid out by Ferdinand Bac and Ludovic Winter.