Chateaux Grimaldi. Cagnes-sur-Mer

PADILLO, on April 9, 2007, said:

ESTE ES EL CASTILLO

Jean Paul Fouques de…, on June 14, 2007, said:

Village Gallo-Roman celto-Ligurian then oppidum, Cagnes-on-Sea changes in XIe century into medieval borough. From its proximity with the Var river which is used as border between the County of Provence and that of Savoy, it becomes in 1388 an important border post. After having suffered from many frontier conflicts in XVIe century, the village knows one period of calms under the reign of Louis XIII before undergoing new invasions under the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV. Top of Cagnes: the history of the city is closely related to that of its castle. Indeed, it is into 1309 that Raynier Grimaldi, coseignor of Monaco, become lord of Cagnes-on-Sea. He makes build a castle which will become soon a property of the branch of Grimaldi d' Antibes, until the revolution. At the XVIIe century, Jean-Henri Grimaldi, marquis de Corbons and baron de Cagnes, under the protection of Louis XIII and Richelieu, transform the medieval castle into a comfortable residence in which it carries out a sumptuous life. But at the time of the French revolution, the Grimaldi family is driven out city. The castle is left with the abandonment until a private individual repurchases it and restores it in 1875. The last marquis de Cagnes and of Antibes dies out in Belgium at the XXe century.