{"id":55338,"date":"2026-09-29T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkseagreen-rook-345411.hostingersite.com\/cosa-vedere\/villa-etelinda-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:12:56","slug":"villa-etelinda","status":"publish","type":"punto_interesse","link":"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/what-to-see\/villa-etelinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Etelinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villa Etelinda is one of the villas on via Romana designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of the Paris Op\u00e9ra. It was built in the 1870s for the banker Rapha\u00ebl Bischoffsheim and is closed to the public today: you can&#8217;t go inside, but its tower with polychrome mosaics is famous for Monet&#8217;s paintings of 1884.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Where:<\/strong> via Romana 38, Bordighera<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visits:<\/strong> closed to the public (tourist office, 2026), like Villa Regina Margherita<\/li>\n<li><strong>Entrance:<\/strong> not available<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good to know:<\/strong> it stands in the same park as Villa Regina Margherita<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who built it and who lived here<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680-1024x716.webp\" class=\"wp-image-44455\" alt=\"Fa\u00e7ade of Villa Etelinda in Bordighera with turret and polychrome mosaics\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680-1024x716.webp 1024w, https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680-768x537.webp 768w, https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680-1536x1074.webp 1536w, https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/villa-etelinda_70680.webp 1701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The villa was designed by Charles Garnier for Rapha\u00ebl Bischoffsheim, a German banker who lived in Paris, between 1873 and 1875 according to Wikipedia (the FAI gives 1878). Garnier reused a few elements from his own house in Bordighera, <a href=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/what-to-see\/villa-garnier\/\">Villa Garnier<\/a>: the slim turret and the polychrome mosaics on the fa\u00e7ade. The garden is by Ludwig Winter, the landscape designer of the Hanbury Gardens in Ventimiglia, together with the hydraulic engineer Paul-Vincent Levieux.<\/p>\n<p>In 1879 the future Queen Margherita of Savoy stayed here as a guest, with her mother. In 1896 the villa passed to the Earl of Strathmore, who renamed it Etelinda after the opera written by his daughter Mildred. Among his guests was little Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Mother of England. In 1913\u201314 Margherita of Savoy bought the villa and the garden and had Villa Regina Margherita built in the same park; she died there in 1926.<\/p>\n<h2>Monet and the tower of Etelinda<\/h2>\n<p>In 1884 Claude Monet painted the tower of Villa Etelinda in his views &#8220;Les Villas \u00e0 Bordighera&#8221;. In the best-known painting the villa appears on the left, painted from the garden of Villa Garnier. For the rest of his Bordighera canvases, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/riviera-di-ponente\/bordighera\/monet\/\">guide to Monet in Bordighera<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/riviera-di-ponente\/bordighera\/monet-paintings\/\">catalogue of his works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do nearby<\/h2>\n<p>Via Romana is the street of the villas of Bordighera. The <a href=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/what-to-see\/bicknell-museum\/\">Bicknell Museum<\/a>, with its big ficus, and the other 19th-century villas are close by. Villa <a href=\"https:\/\/italian-riviera.com\/en\/what-to-see\/villa-pompeo-mariani\/\">Pompeo Mariani<\/a> is higher up, above the old town. To see where Monet set up his easel, head to its park.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<details class=\"ir-faq\">\n<summary>Can you visit Villa Etelinda?<\/summary>\n<p>No. According to the tourist office it is closed to the public in 2026, together with Villa Regina Margherita.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ir-faq\">\n<summary>Who designed Villa Etelinda?<\/summary>\n<p>The French architect Charles Garnier, the same man who designed the Paris Op\u00e9ra. The garden is by Ludwig Winter.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ir-faq\">\n<summary>Why is it called Etelinda?<\/summary>\n<p>The name was given in 1896 by the Earl of Strathmore, the new owner, in honour of the opera &#8220;Etelinda&#8221; written by his daughter Mildred.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"ir-faq\">\n<summary>Did Monet paint Villa Etelinda?<\/summary>\n<p>Yes, the villa&#8217;s tower appears in the 1884 paintings &#8220;Les Villas \u00e0 Bordighera&#8221;, among the best-known works of his stay.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garnier&#8217;s villa on via Romana with the tower Monet painted: history, famous owners and current status (closed to the public).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44455,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"zona":[29,28],"tipo_luogo":[89],"class_list":["post-55338","punto_interesse","type-punto_interesse","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","zona-riviera-dei-fiori","zona-riviera-di-ponente","tipo_luogo-ville-e-dimore-storiche-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Villa Etelinda in Bordighera: history, Garnier and Monet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Villa Etelinda in Bordighera: Garnier&#039;s villa for Bischoffsheim, the tower Monet painted in 1884, Queen Margherita. 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