In that year of 1911, on the prestigious Boulevard Edouard VII, Antonio Santa-Maria, a wealthy Argentinean, decided to build the Manoir Belgrano.
Inspired by the Château de Blois, Clos Lucé d'Amboise and a number of English manor houses, the building, designed by architect Charles Dalmas, evokes the elegance of the Belle Époque. He named it Belgrano in honour of a district of Buenos Aires. Its two octagonal turrets with soaring roofs, oriel windows, slate roofs, twisted columns and gallery of arcades create an architectural curiosity, a Belle Époque castel participating in the architectural fantasies of the Côte d'Azur landscape.
