Castle of the English
The Castle of the English , in the district of the Mount-Boron with Nice is the prototype even of the madness of a man. Colonel Smith buys 22.000 m ² uncultivated ground with the Mont Boron in 1856. He is built in three years and its style points out that of India. Transformed into joint ownership after the Second world war, it is listed monument.
History
As of the beginning, Niçois called it " The Madness of Anglais" or " The Smith" Madness; name of its manufacturer: colonel Smith. Built in 1856.True colonel of the army of the Army of the Indies. On its arrival in Nice, it bought a ground of 22.000 m ² dominating the port with the extreme point of the Cape of Nice. Work lasted 4 years and cost a fortune.
A journalist of the time tells: “Colonel Smith did not neglect anything to arrive at the goal which he proposed. It is per million that its expenditure should be quantified. He dug, cut, bored the rocks precipice on which the castle is built. Where formerly one saw only stones and stones, one sees broad and easy ways now. One goes down from two ways to the sea, by a road and a staircase of 200 steps, punctuated of distance in distance, either of a house, or of a shelter, or of a terrace where to rest on marble benches to admire the landscape. ”
With died of colonel Smith, the Smith castle was bought by the Tale Nickel silver Gurowsky de Wezele. In the Twenties, the castle is sold: it was the quarry; after the second war, the residence output in apartments, a rough coat which is not time, applied to the frontages. The cut up ground, one bored there the boulevard Jean Lorrain.
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