{"id":8193,"date":"2025-05-16T16:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivieraedition.com\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:20:52","slug":"sean-connerys-luxury-bond-villa-on-the-french-riviera-is-available-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rivieraedition.com\/en\/sean-connerys-luxury-bond-villa-on-the-french-riviera-is-available-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Connery’s Luxury ‘Bond’ Villa on the French Riviera is Available to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A landmark Art Deco property in Nice on the French Riviera<\/a>, once owned by legendary Bond actor Sean Connery, is back on the market; and could be yours for a cool 23.5-million euros ($26.4-m). The villa’s official name is\u00a0Le Roc Fleuri<\/em> (flowering rock) but locals refer to it as the Bond Villa or Sean’s Place after Connery owned it in the ’70s and ’80s, living there with his wife Micheline Roquebrune, who was born and raised in Nice.<\/p>\n

According to the villa’s real estate agent, Century 21<\/a>: “In a luxury market driven by strong international demand\u2014particularly from Americans, Scandinavians and British\u2014this villa embodies everything that lovers of the French Riviera are looking for: charm, rarity, and history.”<\/p>\n

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James Bond’s Villa Roc Fleuri is for sale. Photo: Century 21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact the property started out British in the 19th century when British citizen Robert Smith built it as a guest pavilion to his Villa Smith (now known as Ch\u00e2teau de l\u2019Anglais)<\/em> in Nice’s Mont Boron district, one of the most exclusive residential areas on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur. The Ch\u00e2teau is now a famous landmark and a listed historical monument on the Cap de Nice (seen in the video below on the far right, with Villa Roc Fleuri to the left, in the middle).<\/p>\n