Villa Les Cèdres Villa Les Cèdres is one of the most luxurious and famous mansions in the world. It can be called a legendary mansion. This is one of the most expensive mansions, around 220 million US dollars, which is around 7,500 million baht. But the price is not the most amazing thing. What is more amazing is that with this price, it can be sold within 3 hours. It can be said that people are competing to buy it, so much so that you might think that this price is too cheap. Villa Les Cèdres Villa means mansion, Les Cèdres means cedar tree. The mansion is located on the French Riviera coast, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat) in the south of France, a bit close to Italy. This city is a peninsula that juts into the Mediterranean Sea. It is considered a city with one of the most beautiful views of the Mediterranean Sea in France. As for the Riviera, I don't need to say much. It is a world-class resort city where the rich like to live. There are many high-society activities there, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Monaco Mid-Year Jazz Festival. And the boat show in Monte Carlo is considered a prime vacation location for the very rich. It is a house with a Mediterranean view that offers a beautiful view that the rich dream of. Villa Les Cèdres is not a new construction but an old villa with a long history. It was built in 1830, almost 200 years ago, during the reign of King Rama III. Later, in 1904, it became the residence of King Leopold II of Belgium. The current owner is a Ukrainian billionaire named Rinat Akhmetov, who has owned it since 2019. The mansion has a large garden covering an area of ​​almost 90 rai, equivalent to 20 football fields. There are more than 20,000 rare trees that have been collected for 100 years, making it a very valuable garden. For plant lovers, this is a garden that cannot be valued at all. The garden here is probably the largest private botanica in the world. Another rare item in this mansion is the library. Inside the library of the mansion, there are old books that have been collected for a long time. Some books exist only a few in the world, and in this room there are 3,000 old books. The mansion was originally designed by a local architect in 1830. At that time, the name of the mansion was Les Oiseaux, which means birds. The name was just changed to Villa Les Cedre after King Leopold bought it in 1904 and rearranged the garden. The newly arranged garden was the best landscape architecture of that era. Harold Peto and Jules Vachelot, who did the landscaping of the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees, made the garden they designed become a very luxurious but private garden. The garden is located on the Mediterranean coast, but the garden design is completely blocked from outsiders. After changing hands, many things have been improved and the garden has been redesigned throughout the period of 200 years. Therefore, the current mansion and the landscape may not be the same as the original prototype in 1830. There are 14 bedrooms inside the mansion that can accommodate guests. There are party rooms, a prayer room, an Olympic-sized swimming pool that is 50 meters long, a stable, complete with facilities and the interior is decorated in the most luxurious way, it is called the best in that era. After the era of King Leopold II, Villa Les Cèdres changed hands several times, but there were no major renovations. The villa was last put up for sale in 2019, and it closed within 3 hours. It is an extraordinary event for the sale of such a large and luxurious property. The buyer was a Ukrainian billionaire named Rinat Akhmetov, who holds it to this day. Believe it or not, the owner of this mansion invested money for sure, because even if he were to put it up for sale again today, the value of the mansion would be much higher than he bought it for. Because the value of this mansion is not just about bricks, stones, lime and sand, but it is history, it is a legend, it is a one-of-a-kind collectible that grows in value with age. @MrOe-Tell stories about home