a new page was added => link above – next to the home and about sections – with maps of the region. Relevant regional maps will be added peu à peu.
Archive for the ‘villages’ Category
maps
Posted in history, offers, villages on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
blue shutters
Posted in offers, villages, tagged blue, Lubéron, Vaucluse on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
7,000 SqF, including a chapel and an orangery, the bastide is built on a huge planted ground. Saignon is the nearest village, perched at the top of a hill behind a large rock which dominates the valley. Blue sky included most of the time…
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PS: If you prefer green shutters higher in the mountains…
aix
Posted in break, history, villages, tagged aix, bastide, château, hotel, marseille, summer on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you try to understand the ”bourgeois” way of life in Provence, you should visit the surroundings of Aix-en-Provence, where huge bastides can be found. The bigger ones would be called castles anywhere else : they were both holiday and agricultural domains, and where occuped in the summer time by wealthy families from Aix and Marseille, when the heat became oppressive…
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celebrities
Posted in break, history, villages, tagged bonnieux, film, novel, ridley scott, Treille on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few bastides have become famous and have contributed to the international popularity of Provence and its way of life.
Among them, the Château la Canorgue [picture below] in Bonnieux, main setting of the film A Good Year (2006) by Ridley Scott and the Bastide Neuve in La Treille, setting of the novel La Gloire de mon Père [...]
hyères
Posted in offers, villages, tagged for sale, hyères, reception on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This amazing property has all the characteristics of the classical bastide. Built during the 18th and 19th century, the house is set in a park, and boasts wonderful reception rooms. The property is sold by its owner.
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