The villa Domergue get difficult - it is not in the center and away from the usual tourist trails. But if the tourists get here, they will not regret: their luxurious furnishings, garden and views from the terrace.

The villa in 1929, the architects Emil Molina and Charles Nico built for the French painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue. Becoming Domergue held on the legendary Montmartre beginning of XX century. New artist and a distant relative of Toulouse-Lautrec, Domergue was for him to Montmartre and was fascinated by creative atmosphere prevailed there. He worked hard and quickly became known. And during the First World, even his reputation is in danger: for a series of lithographs of the atrocities of the Germans, he was sentenced in absentia to death by them.

But by the time of construction of the villa Domergue was famous mainly because of the style in which he painted elegant and fashionably dressed (or, conversely, half-naked) women. The artist claimed that it was he who invented the style of pin-up, and later widely distributed in the United States. Although, of course, his unnaturally thin, with disproportionately long necks, curvaceous heroine different from Americans.

The villa was built in the Italian spirit - Domergue inspired patterns houses he had seen in the Tuscan town of Fiesole. Therefore, the original name of the villa - Fiesole. The artist chose a site on the slope of a high hill and a stone wall, penetrated into all the details of design (not only the residential part of the house, but also a workshop and outbuildings), carefully chosen refined interior details - even the chandeliers are made according to his own design. The artist's wife, Odette, a professional sculptor, designed the magnificent garden terraces, ponds, waterfalls, ancient busts among the cypress trees and other Mediterranean plants.

The couple settled on Villa City. There are often held receptions, exhibitions, official events; usually it is here that the Cannes jury meets to discuss the final results of the competition. From July to September here, and let tourists. In the villa you can admire paintings and sculptures of Odette Domergue, a vast terrace - overlooking the city and the Bay of Cannes, and in the garden - in Etruscan tomb of the spirit. This cenotaph (empty tomb) Odette Domergue portrayed husband and myself, he is smiling, she thought, and both looking into the sunset over the sea.