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Michael R. Mastro (born June 1, 1925) [1] is an American real estate developer, who was in business for forty years managing apartments and mid-size office parks in Seattle. [2] He declared bankruptcy in 2009.
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 ^2 Inventaire forestier départemental, III e inventaire 1998 Haute-Savoie ( pronounced [ot savwa] ⓘ ) [ a ] is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France , bordering both Switzerland and Italy .
Pierre Zimmermann is founder and CEO of Zimmermann Immobilier, a real estate company in French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva, Vaud, Valais, Fribourg). He is also co-owner of two French groups, GCK (hydrogen, electricity, motors, batteries, etc.) and Les Étincelles, the largest hotel group in the French Alps.
Villa La Leopolda in its current incarnation was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by the American architect, Ogden Codman, Jr., on an estate once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium. Leopold had made the previous estate a present for his mistress Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix , also known as Caroline Lacroix, and it derives its name ...
The term French Riviera comes by analogy with the term Italian Riviera, which extends east of the French Riviera (from Ventimiglia to La Spezia). [13] As early as the 19th century, the British referred to the region as the Riviera or the French Riviera, usually referring to the eastern part of the coast, between Monaco and the Italian border. [14]
Alpes-Maritimes (French: [alp(ə)maʁitim]; Occitan: Aups Maritims; Italian: Alpi Marittime; lit. ' Maritime Alps ') is a department of France located in the country's southeast corner, on the Italian border and Mediterranean coast. Part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, it encompasses the French Riviera alongside neighbouring Var.
La Grave (French pronunciation: [la ɡʁav]; Occitan: La Grava) is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. It is a small ski resort in the French Alps, dominated by La Meije (3982 m).
The town is well known as a ski resort near Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Conceived in the 1920s as a French alternative to St. Moritz by the Rothschilds, it was the first purpose-built resort in the Alps. Originally it was a prime destination for the French aristocracy; it remains one of the most famous and affluent ski resorts in the world. [3]