Qualla: Villa Kerylos https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/v/0/villa-kerylos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Villa Kerylos https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos Villa Kerylos: Introduction https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos/ Photo credit Wisi eu, CC0. Theodore Reinach was not content to study ancient Greece. He wanted to live in it. A polymath archaeologist, mathematician, and politician, Reinach purchased a rocky point at the tip of the Baie des Fourmis in Beaulieu-sur-Mer -- a site he felt resembled the headlands where Greek temples once stood -- and commissioned a full-scale reconstruction of a nobleman's villa from the island of Delos, built as it would have appeared in the 2nd century BC. He named it Kerylos, after the Greek word for the halcyon kingfisher, a bird of good omen. Construction began in 1902 and took six years. When it was finished, the French Riviera had gained its most improbable building: an ancient Greek house, complete in every detail, perched above a 20th-century sea.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/v/0/villa-kerylos-wp/spv0-villa-kerylos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Villa Kerylos: An Archaeologist's Obsession https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos/ Photo credit Abxbay, CC BY-SA 3.0. Reinach was no dilettante. He was a serious scholar who had studied Greek architecture, art, and daily life with the rigor of an academic and the passion of a collector. For the design, he turned to the architect Emmanuel Pontremoli, who had traveled extensively in Asia Minor and...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/v/0/villa-kerylos-wp/spv0-villa-kerylos-an-archaeologists-obsession.mp3 0:06 2 full Villa Kerylos: Rome, Pompeii, and Egypt Under One Roof https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos/ Photo credit Hélène Grenier, CC BY-SA 3.0. While the floor plan was Greek, Reinach allowed the interior decoration to draw from a broader classical palette. The artists Gustave Louis Jaulmes and Adrien Karbowsky oversaw the interior, integrating influences from Rome, Pompeii, and Egypt into a unified aesthetic. Stucco bas...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/v/0/villa-kerylos-wp/spv0-villa-kerylos-rome-pompeii-and-egypt-under-one-roof.mp3 0:06 3 full Villa Kerylos: Family Ties and Rival Villas https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos/ Photo credit Waterborough, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Reinach family's connection to the nearby Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild adds a layer of social history to both buildings. Fanny Reinach was a cousin of Maurice Ephrussi, who married Beatrice de Rothschild. According to family accounts, Beatrice was so inspired by the beauty of...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/v/0/villa-kerylos-wp/spv0-villa-kerylos-family-ties-and-rival-villas.mp3 0:06 4 full Villa Kerylos: A Greek House on the French Sea https://qualla.com/villa-kerylos/ Photo credit Waterborough, CC BY-SA 4.0. Villa Kerylos has been classified as a monument historique since 1966. Visitors walking through its peristyle courtyard, past its mosaic floors and frescoed walls, experience something closer to time travel than tourism. The building sits on its rocky point with the Mediterranean...

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