Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin is layered on three levels between Monaco and Menton. At the top, the medieval village and its keep, one of the oldest preserved in France. At the bottom, Carnolès and its shops. Between them, the wooded, residential peninsula of Cap Martin, which the old customs path rounds at water level.

That path now carries Le Corbusier’s name; he spent his summers in the Cabanon he built for himself in 1952 just above it, beside the E-1027 villa designed by Eileen Gray in the late 1920s. The ensemble is visited under the name Cap Moderne. The architect died swimming off the cape in 1965; he is buried in the village cemetery, under a tomb of his own design.