La Voile d'Or

In 1904, the customs house of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat was demolished to make space for "l’hôtel du Parc".^[1] It was the first hotel in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.^[2] In 1914, the hotel was acquired by Paris Singer.^[1]

In 1925^[3] or 1933,^[1] La Voile d'Or was bought by English golf champion Captain William Powell, the father of filmmaker Michael Powell. In 1964, Jean and Françis Lorenzi bought the hotel and instigated a two-year expansion, during which the hotel was closed to visitors. Until 2019, the hotel was owned by Jean's daughter Isabelle Lorenzi.^[4][5]

In 2017, the hotel was awarded its fifth star. Two years later, it was sold to a foreign company for €70 million.^[3][6]

The hotel is famous for the many celebrities who have visited it. Poet Jean Cocteau once called it "a place where you sleep with your head resting on the sea".^[2] Other visitors include actors David Niven, Gregory Peck, and Jack Hawkins,^[3] singer Bono,^[7] and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.^[8]

Parts of the first episode of British television series The Persuaders!, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, were filmed at the hotel.^[1]