Cap Ferrat
Cap Ferrat (pronounced: [kap fɛʁa]) (English: Cape Ferrat) is situated in Alpes-Maritimes département, in southeastern France. It is located in the commune of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
Saint Hospitius lived here as a recluse during the sixth century. Thus, the cape is sometimes called Cap-Saint-Hospice or Cap-Saint-Sospis.
Once the domain of King Leopold II of Belgium, Cap Ferrat is now graced with a number of magnificent villas. The writer W. Somerset Maugham bought Villa Mauresque (originally built for Leopold's father-confessor) in 1928 and lived there before and after World War II. He described it in a letter to his nephew, Robin Maugham, as "the escape hatch from Monaco for those burdened with taste." Current famous residents include Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in Villa Maryland and theatrical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.[citation needed]
In his song I Went to a Marvellous Party, Noël Coward included the lyric: Living in error/ With Maud at Cap Ferrat/ Which couldn't be right.
Cap Ferrat was named in 2012 as the second most expensive residential location in the world after Monaco. [1]
It is the principal setting for the 2010 French film Little White Lies.
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Coordinates: 43°41′15″N 7°19′45″E / 43.68750°N 7.32917°E