Les Colombieres, meaning the dovecote, is a villa in Menton on the French Riviera, originally built in 1790 and redesigned between 1918 and 1927 by the designer Ferdinand Bac, who reworked it as a Mediterranean garden estate. Bac laid out the 7.4 acre grounds with pavilions, colonnades, bridges, and classical literary allusions, and designed the interior frescoes and furniture drawing on his Mediterranean travels; the three story, roughly 800 square meter villa carries a distinctive red and yellow exterior. The estate hosted cultural figures including the artist Jean Cocteau and Marshal Joseph Joffre, and it has been protected as a French Monument Historique since 1991. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Les Colombieres (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Colombières, lead definition
Les Colombières (The Dovecote) is a villa in Menton, in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Les Colombieres, meaning the dovecote, is a villa in Menton on the French Riviera, originally built in 1790 and redesigned between 1918 and 1927 by the designer Ferdinand Bac, who reworked it as a Mediterranean garden estate. Bac laid out the 7.4 acre grounds with pavilions, colonnades, bridges, and classical literary allusions, and designed the interior frescoes and furniture drawing on his Mediterranean travels; the three story, roughly 800 square meter villa carries a distinctive red and yellow exterior. The estate hosted cultural figures including the artist Jean Cocteau and Marshal Joseph Joffre, and it has been protected as a French Monument Historique since 1991.
View the Source2. Les Colombieres (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1924)
Wikidata item Q12324327, property P571: 1924
Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q12324327, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Menton, France
Wikidata item Q12324327, property P131/P17 (location): Menton, France
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