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- The shore Provence, with its buildings, and the men who built them.

- One of them knows a very special destiny.

- His name is Michel Pacha, a captain in the long term and a very well advised business man.

- In 1855 he gets from Sultan Abdulmecit I the construction of all the lighthouses of the Ottoman Empire.

- He is living at the time between Paris, Istanbul and Sanary sur Mer.

- Sanary, his village, to which he gives quays, a church, houses, fountains.

- In particular, with the huge fortune he gathers, he makes a dream come true:

- just next to Sanary, in Tamaris Bay.

- The place reminds him of the Golden Horn in Istanbul and he erected a balneary resort here.

- An architect with a 10 year passion for this man and his achievements.

- In particular this house.

- A very interesting house as it ranges all the architectural elements of the resort.

- This large belvedere for light…

- And if we go on and tour the house,

- we can see those elements that are put one next to the other and that in the end will decline a research in the landscape,

- staging of this great landscape, and in particular the large verandah

- that is a sort of aquarium where people go for tea, show off, but it is also a way to usher the garden and this entire landscape in the house.

- Is it inspired by Istanbul?

- We can say that with its big roofs with overbriming, as a matter of fact this can be found in Istanbul, but not only.

- The handrails are in the Italian fashion, the kind of plinths under the earthenware roofs that are more the Italian way and so on,

- thus it is this mix of eclectic architecture that shapes the seaside resort house.

- Michel Pacha thus offers to rent 93 houses with an eclectic inspiration, sometimes French or Oriental.

- And the success is dazzling.

- One must say that he had planned everything.

- The avenues lined with a sight, a great hotel, a casino, a post office,

- and like in Istanbul, sea shuttles still working today.

- Then comes the most astonishing element, this research institute he gave to a scientific friend.

- A mix of Ottoman art and of Moorish style.

- Contrary to what we saw in the heart of the village, he built it on the seashore for it to maintain a dialogue with the bay and the reflection of the bay.

- It is like the Dolmabahçe on the Bosphorus. A large white façade that will reflect itself in the bay, he wants to have a dialogue between architecture, urbanism and the landscape.