Sponsor: Marc Maximin Martin
Architect: Unknown
Date: 1870


In 1868, Marc Maximin Martin bought a plot of national forest of more than 6 hectares overlooking the shore to build his home there. Coming from a family of Marseille industrialists, he lived in Vidauban, at the Château d'Astros, which he had built in 1860 and where the film Le Château de ma Mère was shot in 1990, inspired by the work of Marcel Pagnol.

Villa Beau Rivage is square in plan, on two floors. The main entrance, to the east, consists of a porch formed of two blue porphyry columns from des quarries du Dramont . The park is landscaped and includes a gardener's pavilion, a stable with shed and tack room, a small port with its boat garage, and an orangery. In 1912, two wings were added to the main building. Above the vault of the ground floor, a very beautiful original marble plaque bears the name of the villa.

Sold to the Jouët-Pastret family in 1905, the villa was resold in 1941, then the loti park became the “Lotissement de Beau Rivage”. The residence is divided into apartments.

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