Villa des Cent Regards

• Localisation

  1000 rue de la Roqueturière, 34090 Montpellier, Hérault, Occitanie, France

• Accès

  Line 2 station Aiguelongue then 15 minutes walk. Line 2 station St Lazare then 16 minutes walk. Bus line No. 15, stop Roqueturière, then 8 minutes walk (go up rue de la Roqueturière).

• Site internet

  https://lescentregards.wordpress.com

• Téléphone

  06 79 37 94 51

• À propos

  Do you know «La Villa des Cent Regards» nestled in the district of Aiguelongue, north of Montpellier? It was built in the 1950s by a particularly imaginative Italian mason. Victor Grazi was born in Lombardy 1896\. In 1921, he married Ida Boldini, a native of the same village. Both left Italy in 1922, fleeing fascism and stayed a few years in Isère, before settling in the Montpellier countryside of Aiguelongue. Victor Grazi works as a mason, and in the evening studies by correspondence the courses of the Superior School of Reinforced Concrete of Rome. This mason is passionate about the technique of reinforced concrete: beams, beams, complicated formwork… Around 1950, Victor Grazi, now owner of a land, can realize the house of his dreams. It will be all concrete and even the doors and even the shutters! Concrete as the only building material, a mason gifted for complicated formwork, it will give a house with straight lines, right angles, repetitive elements: a beautiful example of Art De