Maison Foncin
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Located at the western entrance to the town, Domaine Foncin is remarkable for its white bastide house perched on the top of a hill overlooking the sea.
At the end of the 1880s, Pierre Foncin, a famous French professor, historian and geographer, and his wife Jeanne Marie de Pozzi travelled to the French Riviera on the “Train des Pignes” for their honeymoon. They discovered the Corniche des Maures and the little paradise known as Cavalaire In 1890, they bought a 15-hectare estate in Le Dattier and built a holiday home there in 1894: Le Casteou Dou Souleu.
The “Maison blanche” soon became a daymarker for sailors and aviators and was soon included in nautical charts.
Maison Foncin
©Abkt.photography/Office de Tourisme
P1044378
Maison Foncin
01043971
01043970
Exhibition on the Foncin family and cartography
@Abkt photography
Inside the Maison Foncin
Exhibition on the Foncin family and cartography @Abkt photography
Maison Foncin
©Abkt.photography/Office de Tourisme
P1044378
Maison Foncin
01043971
01043970
Exhibition on the Foncin family and cartography
@Abkt photography
Inside the Maison Foncin
Exhibition on the Foncin family and cartography @Abkt photographyAfter their father’s death in 1917, his daughters Mireille and Myriam Foncin stayed at the estate from time to time. Mireille, his daughter, was one of the first members of the Regional Association for the Protection of Birds and Nature. In 1975, she took up permanent residence at the estate and in 1977, she donated her property and the 15 hectares surrounding it to the Conservatoire du Littoral to ensure its long-term protection: this was the first bequest made to the Conservatoire du Littoral.
After her death in 1996, the Conservatoire du Littoral began a serious study to find an exceptional use for this emblematic site in line with the donor’s wishes: education and nature conservation.
The Domaine Foncin is now open to visitors via the Maison de la Nature website!