Riviera Palace

Perched above Monaco in Beausoleil, the Riviera Palace was built as a luxury Belle Époque hotel (1898–1902), designed by architect Georges Chedanne for the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits. Its eclectic, Italianate façades combine warm ochre tones with vivid blue majolica balustrades, while the celebrated winter garden is topped by a glass roof engineered by Gustave Eiffel’s company. Once linked to Monte-Carlo by a rack railway and later used as an auxiliary military hospital during WWI, the building was eventually converted into apartments and has been listed as a French Historic Monument since 1989.