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"A grand dame on the Cap Ferrat peninsula near the town of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, this hotel was originally built by the son of a carriage operator in the early 1900s, then bought by a wealthy widow and sold to a pair of hoteliers in 1922; after shuttering during WWII, it reemerged as a glittering destination for the world’s elite, including Picasso and Winston Churchill. Not to be confused with the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, it channels the stealth-wealth aura of a peninsula famed for Belle Époque estates owned by the Rothschilds and Belgian royals, and stands as the second most famous hotel on the Côte d’Azur." - Elise Taylor