One of the largest properties in Menaggio, with 1,050 feet of private lake frontage, Villa Olivetta is a Victorian outlier among the Italianate and Liberty-style estates that define Lake Como, built in the late 19th century by London-born engineer Herman Mylius.

Set along Èze’s quiet seafront between Monaco and Cap Ferrat, this waterfront estate offers a rare combination of scale and direct sea access, just minutes from Monaco by boat.

Built and once owned by a notable Belle Époque architect, this true pieds-dans-l’eau villa occupies one of the Riviera’s most tightly held stretches of coastline.

Commissioned in 1740 under the Spanish Bourbons, Castillo del Príncipe — named for the son of King Charles III — is a rare horseshoe-shaped coastal fortress restored into a nine-bedroom retreat overlooking Galicia’s rugged Costa da Morte.

Built and once owned by a notable Belle Époque architect, this true pieds-dans-l’eau on Cap d’Antibes offers rare beach access, sweeping sea views, and classic Riviera proportions on one of the coast’s most exclusive enclaves.

At the southern tip of Lake Garda, a villa on Sirmione’s Via Punta Staffalo spans nearly two acres of private gardens descending to the water, with a wrought-iron cancello sul lago and dock with private waterfront access.

Recently, LVMH’s Bernard Arnault—the world’s second-richest person—acquired the nearby Hôtel Cap Estel in Èze through his family holding company for approximately €200 million, signalling renewed attention on this discreet stretch of the Riviera coastline.

The late, influential art-world power broker Barbara Gladstone’s Gilded Age waterfront retreat — one of the last intact turn-of-the-century shingle “summer cottages” on Long Island’s North Fork — is for sale for $12 million

Lake Como has long ranked among the most prestigious real estate markets in the world, defined by its grand waterfront properties—yet there are few comparable to the scale of this restored 19th century silk mill in Brienno.

Built for Louise Grace—daughter of NYC’s two-time mayor and shipping magnate William R. Grace—this stuccoed Renaissance Revival cottage is a rare surviving example of an early American summer estate, set on 3,570 feet of private Maine shoreline.