Château de la Garoupe, Private château near Garoupe Beach in Antibes, France.
The grand estate spans 100,000 square meters, featuring a main house of 1,500 square meters with half-moon windows and a staircase descending to the Mediterranean Sea.
British MP Charles McLaren commissioned English architect Ernest George to build the château in 1907, establishing a notable residence on the Cap d'Antibes.
The château gardens contain 12-meter rose bushes, irises, and begonias, created under the direction of Laura McLaren, participating in Côte d'Azur garden competitions.
The property remains closed to the public, though visitors can view the exterior and grand staircase during walks around Cap d'Antibes.
WhatsApp founder Jan Koum acquired the property for 65 million euros in 2023, following previous owner Boris Berezovsky's ownership and a decade under French state control.
Location: Antibes
GPS coordinates: 43.55000,7.13806
Latest update: June 23, 2025 09:47
Between the ramparts of the old town and the pines of Cap d'Antibes, this seaside resort on the French Riviera preserves an architectural heritage spanning eight centuries. Grimaldi Castle, a 12th-century fortress turned Picasso’s first museum in 1946, overlooks the seafront from Place du Safranier. Further south, Fort Carré stands with its four bastions on a 26-meter-high (85 ft) rocky promontory, built in 1565 to defend the border between France and the Duchy of Savoy. Cap d'Antibes features about twenty residences built from the late 19th century through the interwar period. Villa Eilenroc (1867) covers 27 acres with French-style gardens and a rose garden facing the sea. Château de la Croë (1927) once hosted the Duke of Windsor and is now a private estate. Notable visitors included Anatole France, who resided in Villa Soleil, and Karl Lagerfeld in the 1990s. Villa Thuret, established in 1857 by botanist Gustave Thuret, currently hosts a research garden of the INRAE with 2,500 plant species suited to Mediterranean conditions. Modernist architecture is represented by Villa Aujourd'hui (1938), a rare example of geometric design from the 1930s on the Côte d'Azur.
Château de la Croë
542 m
Hotel du Cap
1.4 km
Villa Eilenroc
816 m
La Garoupe lighthouse
1.6 km
Notre Dame de la Garoupe
1.7 km
Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret
1.9 km
Plage de la promenade du soleil
3 km
Sentier littoral du Cap d'Antibes
636 m
Plage Keller
493 m
Villa Aujourd'hui
1.5 km
Bastion Saint-André
3.2 km
Plage des Ondes
1.4 km
Plage de la Garoupe
540 m
Plage de Ponteil
2.8 km
Plage Gallice
2.3 km
Musée d'archéologie d'Antibes
3.2 km
Église Saint-Benoît, Antibes
886 m
Sentier du littoral
469 m
Night Fishing at Antibes (replica)
3.2 km
Plage de la pinède
2.7 km
Phare de l'Ilette
1.6 km
Plage de la Base de Voile
2.6 km
Synagogue d'Antibes
2.5 km
Scenic viewpoint
2.9 km
Eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Pinède, Juan-les-Pins
2.5 km
Temple protestant du Cap d'Antibes
743 m
Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs
1.7 km
Plage de la Salis, Antibes
2.4 kmReviews
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