Villa Mauresque, Hendaye, Neo-Moorish villa in Hendaye, France.

Villa Mauresque is a three-wing villa built in pale stone in Hendaye on the French Basque Coast. The building features multiple stories and arcaded galleries arranged around a central courtyard that opens toward the Bidassoa river through five large arches.

The villa was built between 1866 and 1867 for Count Jules de Polignac (1817–1890), a captain in the 4th Chasseurs d'Afrique and cousin of Prince Jules de Polignac, prime minister under Charles X. In 1865 the town sold him a plot on the glacis of the old Fort d'Andaye, destroyed by Spanish armies in 1793, and he reused its stones for the building. His family sold it in 1890 to Dr. Camino, mayor of Hendaye, who added two floors and glazed the courtyard; his daughter, married to shipowner Louis Légasse, gave it its present open patio in the 1950s. It was listed as a monument historique on 28 December 2010.

The name Mauresque refers to the Moorish style of the small fort Count Jules de Polignac built here in 1865. Above the main door, a carved mermaid is the blazon of Legasa in Navarre, the village the Légasse shipowning family came from; the same figure appears on their ships, houses and tombs. In an outside niche stands a statue of Ama Guadalupekoa, patron saint of Fontarrabie, carved by the mute sculptor Serafin Esuain and decorated with flowers by Hondarribiars as a sign of friendship between the two river towns.

The villa opens to visitors during the annual Heritage Days celebration. For current visiting information and guided tour arrangements, contact the Hendaye tourist office directly.

A marine cannon positioned in the garden points toward the Spanish town of Fontarrabie across the river. This cannon fires ceremonial shots during local festivities such as the Hendaye Tamborrada celebration.