Villa Cyrnos

It was designed by Hans-Georg Tersling, one of the most productive architects of the period on the French Riviera.

[citation needed] The villa, named after the ancient Greek for Corsica, was built in 1892 for Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French and the last Empress consort of the French.

[1] Queen Victoria was another of Eugénie's friends and visited the villa annually.

[2] In 1920, the villa was inherited by Marie-Laetitia Bonaparte who, during her widowhood, maintained a scandalous relationship with Norberto Fischer, a military man twenty years her junior.

As the sole heir in her will, he inherited the house in 1926 and lived there—since his 1928 marriage, with opera singer Vina Bovy—until his death in 1950.