BastideNice (06)

Price :

$2,845,800

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Surface276 m²bedrooms6 land6,700 m²

A delightful villa with a lush 6,500m² garden in the town of Opio in south-east France, next to the Château de la Bégude and its golf course. The property takes up one of the estate’s highest plots. From here, it offers a spectacular view: from some spots, you can even see the Mediterranean sea in the distance. Moreover, the plot lies at the edge of the estate, advantageously positioned beside the forest that surrounds the latter.
You enter the property via a driveway lined with vegetation. Two car ports stand beside this driveway. The house’s rear elevation then comes into view. This side of the dwelling includes the main entrance and a scullery entry. Two vast terraces extend on the house’s other side, facing south. One terrace is for meals and guests and leads down to a swimming pool at a lower level. The other terrace runs alongside the bedrooms. The garden is terraced with two dry-stone retaining walls and embellished with an abundance of plants. Tall, old trees tower among flowerbeds and clusters of lush shrubs. At the back, beside the forest, there is a pétanque court and a timber hut.
The villa was built in the 1970s. It is rectangular and south-facing. It seamlessly links the rooms to the garden, which extends around the dwelling. The reception rooms and bedrooms connect to the terraces outside. The wing of bedrooms is edged with a small terrace of tomette tiles that leads into the garden and takes you round to the main terrace too. At the back of the house, the other rooms include several bathrooms and a kitchen with a remarkably spacious pantry that you can enter from the driveway.
Traditional high-quality construction characterises this house. From the lounge, you can see exposed beams of the timber roof frame that crowns the villa. Local tiles cover the roof with respect for the typical Provençal style of single-storey villas in the region, yet a feature that makes this particular dwelling stand out is a protruding section upstairs that houses a special bedroom with its own bathroom and an office. The house’s thick walls are punctuated with broad picture windows on its south side.