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House with garden and terrace Giroussens (81)
A renovated house with an outbuilding and garden, nestled in a village in France’s Tarn department, overlooking the River Agout valley between the cities of Toulouse and Albi. You reach the property from the village’s main road. The traditional architecture of this village is harmonious. The house is set back. Trees of different varieties give it privacy. From the entrance gate, you can admire the 2,500m² enclosed garden that extends around the dwelling with its soft tones and perfect symmetry. The edifice is coated with ochre rendering, except on its base, which is left exposed. The facade is punctuated with balustrades and window and door surrounds of red brickwork. The new roofing of red tiles, in harmony with the house’s warm hues, completes the aesthetic balance of this remarkable building. A large entrance hall leads straight to a lounge and to a dining area with an open-plan kitchen. A pantry adjoins this kitchen. This pantry serves as a utility room too. The hallway also connects to a spacious office, which could be turned into a bedroom. A lavatory and an elegant Italian-style bathroom completes the ground floor. From the dining room, French windows lead out onto a 35m² terrace, which forms an extension of the room. On the first floor, there are three large bedrooms filled with natural light and a cosy lounge that could be turned into a fourth bedroom. There is also a lavatory and two shower rooms up here. The second floor takes up the rest of the dwelling. It is a high-ceilinged roof space with a 120m² floor area. This vast space, which has been marvellously renovated and insulated, is versatile, offering a wide range of possibilities. The whole home includes tasteful, colourful decoration and beautiful finishes. It invites you to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle here.
…$594,300284m²4bedroomsland 2,500m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Laval (53)
In the Mayenne, less than 5 minutes from the centre of Laval, a 17th-century rural complex with nearly 4.4 ha of pastureland. The property is reached by an old sunken lane. The surrounding land is zoned for agriculture, which protects it from urban disturbance. A tree-lined drive leads to six buildings set on either side of a courtyard: the main house, a former henhouse, a workshop with an open garage, two barns, and a large 'longère'. The oldest dates from the 17th century. The south-facing main house has more than 235 m² of living space. Two hipped dormers punctuate its local-stone facades, beneath tall stone-and-brick chimney stacks. Hipped at its west end, the slate roof gives the house the look of a small manor. The windows are double-glazed and have interior shutters. Pastures enclosed by hedgerows surround the buildings, and the land extends to nearly 4.4 ha in all.
…$732,200236m²5bedrooms1bathroomland 4.3haBy Patrice Besse
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Bastide Caderousse (84)
A Provençal residence with a pool, an ornamental pond and large outhouses, between the old papal city of Avignon and the Gallo-Roman town of Orange. The residence stands on a plot that covers just over 2,000m². It forms the heart of the property, which was developed around a broom-making workshop. You enter the site from the street via a wrought-iron double gate for pedestrians and a tall gate for cars. Three-metre-high stone walls enclose the plot, giving it absolute privacy. The property is made up of different buildings that were once used for the broom-making workshop. In the centre, there is the residence, framed between two gardens with distinct atmospheres: the first one, an ornamental garden, on the south side and a second one on the north side. Furthermore, a coachman’s lodge, a former stable and several terraces surround the residence. A covered entrance area leads to a former woodstore with a small dovecote and then to the northern part of the property. This section includes a rather large building, which housed the various annexes that once served as assembly workshops, drying rooms and storage lofts. The residence’s south part, which bears the marks of an 18th-century redesign, is the owners’ dwelling. Its north part, which displays raw beauty, brings together a series of 17th-century connecting rooms where the broom-makers with their craftsmanship would have worked. Indeed, some accounting scribbles left on the walls bear witness to this industrious past. The southern elevation is rendered in an ochre-yellow tone, which brings out the mint-green hue of the shutters. The northern elevation’s original rendering has been replaced with a more recent rendering of concrete. The residence is crowned with a barrel-tile roof of two slopes – one facing north, the other south – underlined with a génoise cornice.
…$1,087,700700m²7bedroomsland 2,049m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Sainpuits (89)
In Burgundy, 2 hours from Paris, a former coaching inn and its outbuilding, set within 5,000 m² of garden and 6 ha of woodland. Two stone pillars mark the entrance to the property. The former coaching inn dates from 1830, perhaps earlier, and has three levels beneath a gabled roof of flat Burgundy tiles. Horses and carriages could once enter the building. The main facade faces south and is punctuated by many small-paned windows fitted with solid timber shutters that have recently been restored. A pair of French windows opens directly onto a raised terrace paved entirely in terracotta. A few dormer windows light the attic. Old troughs border the house and are now planted with a variety of flowers. A courtyard enclosed by a low drystone wall fronts the house and leads to the nearby outbuildings. The garden behind the house was once a kitchen garden, and two pillars beside an ornamental well still mark its boundaries. A small stone building formerly held the garden tools.
…$392,500500m²6bedrooms1bathroomland 7.2haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Saint-Malo (35)
A vast family residence with a guests’ house, swimming pool and tennis court, in Saint Malo, in more than 8,000 m² of walled parkland. The property, made up of the various edifices and an 8,000-m² plot of parkland, is surrounded by tall stone walls. The entrance is via a gate framed by two tall granite pillars. The buildings stand in the western part of the plot, near to the entrance. The rest of the grounds are tree-filled and landscaped, with a tennis court and an outbuilding containing old looseboxes. The main residence and the guests’ house are separated by wooden decking that surrounds the swimming pool. The manor type main residence is made of rough-hewn blocks of granite with ashlar door and window surrounds. The very steep hipped roof is framed by tall chimney stacks and punctuated by two hipped dormers. To the rear, a staircase tower is topped by a pavilion roof. To the west, a single-storey, lower-rise edifice topped by an attic level beneath a gabled roof punctuated by a hipped dormer and skylights, is also made of granite. The swimming pool extends to the south from it. A second building to the south stands against the dividing wall. It is also made of rough-hewn blocks of granite and boasts a rabbet at the top of the gable wall. The slate roof is punctuated by skylights.
…$1,947,700445m²5bedroomsland 8,006m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Autun (71)
In Morvan, a master house with outbuildings on 1.3 hectares. Access to the property is marked by a wrought iron gate, flanked by two large stone pillars. The master house, built at the end of the 19th century, occupies the center, surrounded by a gravel courtyard that extends into gardens to the east and west. The whole is limited to the north by farm buildings, to the south by an annex and a pigeonnier. At one time, the place housed a holiday colony. Raised two stories on basements, the dwelling features a central body that slightly protrudes, with three bays, and two wings of two bays each. Its main facades, plastered and symmetrical, are highlighted with friezes. On the raised ground floor, French doors and small-pane windows, protected by shutters, align above a plinth pierced with air vents. The first floor follows the same rhythm. On the second floor, the three central bays end in a gable with overhanging eaves, pierced by two windows and a semicircular bay surmounted by two relief arches; the wings receive natural light from Jacobin dormers. The slate roof with hips, crossed by the two-pitched roof of the central body, has seven brick chimney stacks. To the west, a paved terrace bordered by boxwood ends in a stone porch; to the east, the porch is framed by a painted wooden railing. The farm buildings, plastered and covered with mechanical tiles, line the street. On the courtyard side, the barn has a curved cart door with a glazed transom, between two curved bays. The annex consists of a building with a tiled roof and a low wing pierced with small-pane windows. Adjoining the pigeonnier, which has a square plan combining a ground floor of rubble with stone corner chains and a plastered upper floor, surrounded by two friezes of denticle bricks. A slate pavilion roof crowns it.This description has been automatically translated from French.
…$527,000430m²11bedrooms5bathroomsland 1.3haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Angers (49)
A recently extended, 19th-century house with gardens and a swimming pool, in a small town near Angers. A narrow street leads to the property’s entrance gate which opens into a first garden. The 19th-century house is adjacent to a construction dating from the early 2000s and together they form a T-shape. The older part includes a two-storey central section beneath an attic level, flanked by two single-storey side wings topped by attic levels. The most recent part has a single level, beneath an attic level and above a basement. The property possesses gabled slate roofs, apart from the central section which has a hipped roof punctuated by gable dormers with triangular pediments. The window surrounds, cornices and quoins are all made of tuffeau stone. To the rear, a patio overlooks a second, entirely enclosed garden.
…$908,300280m²5bedrooms1bathroomland 1,451m²By Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Menton (06)
Les Colombières villa and estate, a Mediterranean masterpiece designed by the artist Ferdinand Bac, nestled in the coastal town of Menton. Les Colombières is an emblematic villa in Menton. It overlooks the town’s Super Garavan district. You can reach it from Menton’s port if you prefer a more discreet arrival. The estate was redesigned by Ferdinand Bac (1859-1952), a belle époque artist, decorator and landscape gardener and a descendant of Jérôme Bonaparte, who was himself a brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. Ferdinand Bac called the main edifice on the estate the 'palazzo'. This grand house and its outbuildings stand on three hectares of grounds that follow the relief of the land and offer many vistas – some truly breathtaking – of the shimmering Mediterranean sea, the hills of Italy and the old heart of Menton with its colourful facades. Today, this whole property is listed as a historical monument, both for its architecture and its grounds and their countless decorative features. Here, Ferdinand Bac developed a series of gardens and landscaped backdrops as unique havens to be experienced, ranging from the 'Bella Vista' and 'Obelisk Garden' to the 'Palladio Pavilion' and a cypress-lined path leading to a Spanish-style pond. You see references to antiquity, Greece, Spain, Venice and Tuscany over the course of open-air strolls, without ever dissociating the garden from the architecture. Ponds and patios punctuate your walk up to the palazzo. And vistas of the sea and Italian scenery can be admired throughout the estate thanks to a masterful arrangement of viewpoints. An imposing wooden double gate forms the property's entrance. It stands in a large arched opening and it is crowned with a wrought-iron railing. The stonework that frames the gate is rendered in a Pompeian red tone. Pale stone columns beneath it bring out this deep red hue. The top of the stone structure is curved. The structure is pierced with a circular opening. Decorative features punctuate it too. The gate takes you onto a large, shady driveway that leads to the edifice’s western elevation, which is designed with pilasters and a marble strip bearing Latin inscriptions. Several paths then lead to the different areas of the estate. Ferdinand Bac’s fascination with King Minos has left a trace here: the haven is deliberately imperial in style with a subtle balance between a desire for grandeur and a desire for private spaces for everyday life, including ponds, patios and a swimming pool.
…$12,895,300746m²15bedrooms12bathroomsland 3.2haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Manosque (04)
A unique, centuries-old chateau and its terraced garden on the edge of a typical Provence village set in a regional nature park. Expanded and adjusted over the course of the centuries, the chateau, somewhere between a Provencal country house and a chateau-like dwelling, extends over approximately 520 m², while its architecture combines materials and styles from different eras: stone, brick, terracotta and slate. With nine bedrooms, several reception rooms and immense living spaces in the chateau, some of which feature wide windows overlooking the gardens and valley, the property also comes with many outbuildings (former stables, a self-contained flat, a converted dovecote and a pavilion), of approximately 490 m², which naturally extend the chateau and create a particularly diverse composition. As for the former stables, they specifically include a reception hall (146 m²) and a flat (approx. 130 m²), whereas the entire estate features a total of nearly 959 m² of interior floor area as well as 14 bedrooms. This layout, already articulated around the property’s bedrooms, reception areas and self-contained accommodations, creates a configuration particularly adapted to a charming hotel with a restaurant, while the main volumes necessary for this sort of establishment already exist, making it possible to imagine changing its vocation without a radical transformation of the estate. Boasting reception areas, outbuildings, gardens and a large patio facing the valley, which, together, make up the necessary components of human-size tourism accommodations in a particularly sought-out area of Haute-Provence, its terraced gardens represent one of the property’s most breath-taking features. All around the chateau, formal gardens, as well as ones planted with roses, fountains, an ornamental pond and views of the valley have been designed to enrapture one and all, whereas their inherent charm is further highlighted by a number of stunning water features: a series of eleven vaulted pools, supplied by an inexhaustible natural spring, the water of which is constantly renewed. This free and exceptionally abundant water source, particularly precious in Provence, is accompanied by the property’s eye-catching architecture, gardens, water features and landscape, which come together to create a rare composition, while its prime address, in the middle of a highly-visited region with strong tourism appeal, creates the ideal location for tourism accommodations, a hotel and a restaurant.
…$1,888,300959m²14bedroomsland 6,609m²By Patrice Besse
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Apartment with terrace Paris 13ᵗʰ (75)
A Parisian apartment, once home to the designers Ubald and Héléna Klug, on the 14th floor of the listed Tour Albert with a sweeping view of Paris. The address of the Tour Albert edifice is 33 Rue Croulebarbe, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The building owes its name to its designer, the architect Édouard Albert (1910–1968), whose work with tubular structures became his signature style. The edifice was built between 1958 and 1960, with help from the architects Robert Boileau and Jacques-Henri Labourdette, as part of a renovation plan imagined in the wake of the Second World War for this district that was still industrial at the time. The building has 23 levels and is 67 metres high – a reference to the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Indeed, it was the French capital’s first skyscraper of apartments, with its 110 units of accommodation. It structure was designed alongside the engineer Jean-Louis Sarf and is based on a framework of steel-tube poles filled with concrete, with exposed saltire crosses fitted in the elevations. This structural framework, pushed to its design limits, freed up the apartments from load-bearing walls and allowed for an arrangement of stainless metal panels and apron walls that are sometimes translucent, sometimes transparent. On the sixth floor, there is a terrace with a 600m² ceiling, painted by the artist Jacques Lagrange. The original plan was to link this viewpoint to the square Place d’Italie, but this project was never brought to fruition. In 1960, the building truly embodied modernity with its underfloor heating, fast lifts and a clear view of Paris. Since 1994, it has been a listed monument. It was restored in 2005 under the supervision of the architect Gorka Piqueras. A caretaker keeps watch over the building, supported by a permanent patrol. The tower has three lifts and a metal stairwell. The apartment lies on the west side of the 14th floor. It has an adjustable plan with a 106m² floor area (102.49m² of liveable floor area according to France’s Carrez law), made up of four rooms that offer spectacular sweeping views and look down at the park Square René Le Gall. An entrance hall connects to a kitchen, a bedroom and a lounge. Next, a hallway connects to two bedrooms, a lavatory, a bathroom and a storeroom. Mosaic-patterned oak parquet gives coherence to the series of rooms, which are punctuated with casement windows. The entrance hall and kitchen have kept furniture designed by Charlotte Perriand upon request from Maurice Besset, an art historian who was close to the legendary architectural designer Le Corbusier and who was the first person to live in this apartment. The property includes a parking place and a concrete cellar.
…$1,592,300102m²3bedrooms1bathroomBy Patrice Besse
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Farmhouse with outbuildings and garden Reims (51)
A 19th-century property with an illustrious past and many outbuildings, in just over 1 hectare, in the Champagne region, 20 minutes west of Reims. The residence is surrounded by tall rubble stone walls as well as many outbuildings and stands opposite the village’s church. The main entrance is via a carriage gate as well as an arched, wooden pedestrian gate. The porch opens into a large, cobbled courtyard, planted with majestic lime trees, revealing the long facade, adorned with a sundial dating from 1869, built parallel to the street. To its left, there are outbuildings laid out in a U-shape around a gravelled courtyard, while to the right a separate perpendicular building has a dovecote on the gable end. To the rear of the residence, a small stone wall divides the grounds lengthways into two distinct sections. The first includes an ornamental stone pond dotted with four Medici vases, while the second, which is raised at the top of several steps, includes a gardener’s house standing at the edge of the property, bordered by an orchard, which is enclosed by immense iron railings bearing the family’s coat of arms and now enjoys views of the fields. The two-storey main residence and its extension in rendered rubble stone topped with a roof made of modern tiles, are punctuated by doors and windows with light-yellow stone surrounds. On either side of the gabled roof, there are two gabled dormers. While in classic fashion the ground floor contains the living rooms and utility rooms, the first floor includes eight bedrooms, a bathroom and a fitness room, while the top floor is divided into three lofts and two former maids’ rooms. The barn set perpendicularly possesses a slate roof and is made of pointed rubble stone, while the remaining, single-storey farm buildings are made of stone and brick. The outbuilding to the right, made of rubble stone and ashlar, is punctuated by three gabled dormers on the courtyard side. It possesses a cellar below its full surface and has an extra level on the street side due to the slope in the land. The imposing dovecote with a hipped roof can be found at the southern corner of the property. To the north, next to the barn, there is another two-storey house made of pointed rubble stone and ashlar. This secondary home, which is entirely walled and currently rented out, can be reached via a metal gate that opens into the courtyard, which provides it with privacy.
…$716,500367m²9bedrooms1bathroomland 1haBy Patrice Besse
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Villa with pool and garden Uga (Spain)
In Uga, a Canarian finca with seven independent units. Uga has about a thousand residents. And nearly four hundred camels. It’s home to the largest herd of camels in the Canary Islands, which have been raised here since the 1960s to carry visitors across the lava fields of Timanfaya. It’s a village that still lives, without fanfare, off the land and its animals. The finca follows this same rural rhythm, preserved in its original Canarian style and renovated without ever straying from its roots. Seven accommodations. A garden planted with palm trees. Nothing more than what is necessary.
…$3,341,6009,157m²7bedrooms7bathroomsBy Patrice Besse
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Villa with garden Perugia (Italy)
In Perugia, a villa built in 1978, a masterpiece of Italian radical architecture, set on approximately 3,400 m² of land. Perugia is nearly two thousand five hundred years old. Its Etruscan walls still encircle the upper town, hewn from stone that no one has ever thought to question regarding its age. A villa, built in 1978 just a few minutes away, doesn’t play by those rules. It doesn’t claim to stand the test of time like a fortress. It prefers to surprise—even if it means unsettling people. Nothing about it is predictable. A patio interrupts one room, a portico frames another, and ceiling heights change without warning from one space to the next. No rule is repeated twice. It is an architecture that thinks in terms of breaks rather than continuity, and which, paradoxically, finds its coherence in this very rejection of expected coherence. Two thousand five hundred years on one side. A handful of decades on the other. And yet, at its core, the same idea: to build something that resembles nothing else.
…$656,000450m²3bedrooms2bathroomsland 3,400m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Ploermel (56)
An 18th-century presbytery with a remarkable, around 400-year-old oak tree, in the former Pays du Porhoët sector, several kilometres from Ploërmel. This rectangular, two-storey former presbytery built in 1734, is made of rough-hewn blocks of shale and granite, topped by a gabled slate roof. The main facade is arranged in an orderly fashion around an entrance door topped with a glazed fanlight. The regularly spread-out windows and doors have dressed granite stone surrounds. The roof is punctuated by three dormers with triangular pediments, while a cornice supported by wooden modillions underlines the guttering. Extensions added over time to the south and west have enabled an increase in the living space. The facades are dotted with small-paned windows fitted with white painted shutters. On the northern gable wall, there is a construction used as a storeroom in which there is a former press. The residence stands in a partially tree-filled plot, where many tall trees, several conifers and a variety of deciduous trees can be found within the immediate proximity of the residence, as well as on the edges of the plot. There is a clearing whose space is already conducive to the construction of one or more edifices. According to planning regulations, the entirety of the plot can be built upon. A stone outbuilding with a slate roof can be found a short distance away. The building includes a vast enclosed volume behind large wooden doors, with an adjoining open-sided lean-to. A well and a small shelter are located to the north of the property.
…$504,600307m²6bedroomsland 1haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Charentenay (89)
An elegant residence to be restored with an ornamental garden, a dovecote and an outhouse, two hours from Paris in Burgundy. Burgundy’s Pays Coulangeois province is known for its 'Irancy' wine, as well as its cherry tree fields, landscape and cuisine. Its undulating countryside is a patchwork of vineyards. Country roads snake around old winemaking villages with streets lined with stone houses. The residence stands proudly and majestically in the heart of the village, near the church. A low wall with iron railings runs along the edge of the plot. A pedestrian gate and a double gate lead into a gravelled court where you can park vehicles. On one side, there is an outbuilding that once housed a stable, near to which there is a dovecote and the entrance to the grounds. Behind the outbuilding, there is another double-gate entrance, which is separate. The residence is built upon cellars. It has a ground floor and a first floor. It is made up of two sections, each with a hipped slate roof and several chimney stacks. The north-facing facade is punctuated with windows fitted with wooden louvred shutters, heralding an interior filled with natural light. White-stone stringcourses run along the facade, marking the different levels. The quoins and door and window surrounds are made of exposed dressed limestone. On the court-facing side, ivy climbs up the walls to the top and a window bringing natural light into the roof space looks down at the stable. Lastly, from the rear elevation, a canopy extends above a large terrace that is entirely tiled and follows the edges of the two-section edifice. The house has a classic trio of a lounge, a dining room and a kitchen on the ground floor, yet it also has as many as six bedrooms, which is rare. One of these bedrooms is on the ground floor. Moreover, the home offers a liveable floor area of around 210m². Its decoration needs to be freshened up somewhat, but it includes many original architectural features of great interest that you could easily showcase through restoration.
…$314,000310m²6bedrooms1bathroomland 2,128m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Gaillac (81)
A townhouse with a neo-Gothic chapel and walled garden, facing the River Tarn and abbey gardens in the town of Gaillac in south-west France. You reach the property from three roads in the historical centre of Gaillac. The whole plot covers 1,200m², widely built upon at its edges. Its different buildings, joined together over the years, are arranged around a walled garden and enjoy absolute privacy. A majestic cedar and the brick belltower of the property’s chapel look down at this secret garden. The main house, the chapel and the other buildings together form a dense, uneven collection, which is characteristic of old urban development. The constructions are mainly made of Toulouse brick, which is rendered in places. They are crowned with barrel-tile roofs with two or more slopes. From the street, the main house displays an organised facade with three levels, punctuated with rectangular and arched openings, as well as brick stringcourses and wrought-iron guardrails. On the garden side, the walls are less even and reflect the different building periods. The chapel stands out for its higher reach, its hipped roofing and its small brick-and-stone belltower crowned with a cross. The main house has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. It offers a vast reception room with a fireplace, as well as a kitchen, six bedrooms, two offices and several bathrooms or shower rooms. In addition to these rooms for everyday living, there are loft spaces and a lower level of cellars and storerooms, which face the street. This whole lower level could be converted to become an extra dwelling. A building linked to the main house brings together a ground-floor chapel and a first-floor billiard room. A self-contained apartment with a bedroom completes the whole series of built sections. Several staircases and separate entrance doors open up the possibility of communal or private uses of the different parts.
…$693,000912m²7bedrooms2bathroomsland 683m²By Patrice Besse
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House with pool Mahón (Spain)
In Mahón, a residence of about 600 m² built around a former 16th-century mill. In the past, there were dozens of windmills in Mahón on the hills surrounding the harbor, facing the open sea to catch a wind that nothing on this coast ever truly stops. They formed a sort of high belt above the city, visible from the sea even before the houses came into view. Today, only a handful remain, scattered throughout the urban landscape, absorbed by more recent buildings that have preserved them as one might preserve a landmark. This one has kept its tower intact, the only visible remnant of a landscape that Mahón has largely lost, but whose memory this house alone continues to carry.
…$4,373,2001,026m²10bedrooms5bathroomsland 1,882m²By Patrice Besse
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Seaside villa with pool Costa Teguise (Spain)
In Costa Teguise, a 1993 architect-designed villa on the waterfront. A volcanic island does not produce marble. The marble that has adorned so many homes and churches in the Canary Islands since the 18th century has always had to cross the sea—shipped from Andalusian ports and unloaded at a cost that made each slab precious even before it was cut. What the land of Lanzarote lacked, trade came to provide. One villa carries on this same island tradition: marble has been chosen throughout the home, with the generosity afforded by an island that has always known how to import what it lacked rather than do without it. Built in 1993 on a private road along the coast, it draws from this tradition a taste for materials that never come from here, yet always end up feeling right at home.
…$2,466,900605m²6bedrooms5bathroomsland 1,040m²By Patrice Besse
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Manor Le Mont-Saint-Michel (50)
A large 17th-century manor with around 6,000m² of grounds in a characterful town centre 30 minutes from Mont-Saint-Michel. This elegant 18th-century manor, built of golden-tinted granite, lies only 25 kilometres from Mont-Saint-Michel and 35 minutes from the charming town of Saint-Malo. The dwelling offers 400m² of exceptionally refined liveable floor area. Hidden behind high enclosing walls in the heart of a village of artists, the manor overlooks the River Couesnon valley in grounds covering 6,000m² and landscaped with French formal gardens and English-style gardens. The interior has kept its original period features, including a series of interconnected Louis XV style and Empire style reception rooms, wooden panelling and monumental fireplaces. Today, the property offers eight suites, together with a self-contained pavilion and a further 200m² of convertible loft space. Not at all overlooked, the property would lend itself well to a lucrative high-end hotel venture, benefitting from the nearly three million visitors drawn to Mont-Saint-Michel each year. Alternatively, it could be your special family home for retreats.
…$1,794,100600m²9bedrooms2bathroomsland 5,794m²By Patrice Besse
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Villa Alaior (Spain)
In Alaior, in the historic center, a renovated townhouse featuring its original scrollwork and rosettes. Alaior was founded in 1304 on the site of an ancient Moorish hamlet, nestled on a hillside, with narrow, winding streets that still climb toward the Church of Santa Eulària today. This medieval layout has never been straightened or simplified: it continues to dictate the way the houses in the center are arranged, with their tall, deep structures. This house retains its original features intact: the traditional vaulted ceiling, the rose windows, and the high ceilings that only the old homes in the center still preserve. The renovation did not seek to alter this heritage in any way, but simply to make it livable again, without ever covering up what the builders of Alaior had created centuries ago.
…$947,500344m²3bedrooms4bathroomsland 122m²By Patrice Besse
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