Cap Ferrat

Notable properties on Cap Ferrat include the Villa La Mauresque (originally built in 1906 for King Leopold II's father-confessor), bought by the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham in 1928, who lived there before and after World War II and until his death in 1965.

[1][2] The Villa Maryland was owned by the co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.

[3] The Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat was bought by a subsidiary of Leonard Blavatnik's Access Industries in 2007.

[4] Prominent former residents have included Paul Hamlyn[5] and Boris Berezovsky.

[6] The English songwriter and playwright Noël Coward referenced the Cap in his song "I Went to a Marvellous Party" from his 1939 revue Set to Music, with the lyric: "Quite for no reason/I'm here for the season/And high as a kite,/Living in error/With Maud at Cap Ferrat/Which couldn't be right..."[7] Cap Ferrat was named in 2012 as the second most expensive residential location in the world after Monaco.