luxury real estate for sale Salin de giraud, France (page 10)

A vast 17th century mansion, its outbuildings and its garden, a stone's throw from a medieval royal castle, at the gateway to the Camargue. Neither listed nor classified, this imposing mansion is a miraculous survivor of the Second World War. During the Liberation battles in Provence, because of its strategic position on the banks of the Rhône, Tarascon was badly hit by Allied air raids and a fifth of its surface area was destroyed. The entire section of the town between the railway station and the bridge over the Rhône was razed to the ground. The “Cours National” - pronounced 'course” by locals - developed in 1862 in the Provençal tradition as a vast space for leisure, socialising and shopping, was not spared. Rumour has it that in the 18th century, the untouched mansion housed members of the family of the explorer and naval officer Jean-François de Lapérouse, earning it for a time the nickname 'Hôtel de Lapérouse'. However, this story has never been documented. Apparently, the name of the family who originally built this edifice has been lost forever in the arcane of Provençal history. The mansion was probably sold as national property to local merchants during the French Revolution; these and others who followed ran it as a commercial and residential rental building with shops on the ground floor throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Today, the ground floor houses business premises which have replaced the reception rooms of the past. The outbuildings served as a coaching inn for the Vallabrègues stagecoach between the 17th and 19th centuries. They have been converted into various premises, flats, a garage and a warehouse flat which extends under the perfectly restored vaulted ceiling of the former stables. The building complex - mansion and extensions - has five independent entrances opening onto the courtyard and a small perpendicular street, taking up its corner and a good part of its length.

A 19th-century town house to be renovated with a floor area of 280m², a patio garden and a terrace, nestled between the cities of Arles and Avignon in southern France. The dwelling is tucked away in the Saint-Nicolas district of Tarascon. It is a typical example of a traditional Provençal town house. Several generations of local merchants lived in this dwelling for a whole century. The house was probably built not long after the French Revolution at a time when a merchant class was starting to thrive, gaining wealth from famous fairs and markets in the local region. The facade has been entirely restored with old-style rendering on the ground floor. An even pattern of limestone blocks with pointing is left exposed on the first and second floors. Like most houses in this historical district of Tarascon, the dwelling was built with Fontvieille limestone on the remains of pre-existing Roman and medieval constructions. Inside, the edifice has kept several original decorative features from the Middle Ages, including an even bond of stonework in the load-bearing walls, strong arched lintels above doors and intriguing vaulted passages. Outside, on the street, the house proudly displays its large, thick shutters. These shutters, made of wood and painted, are typical of the Arlesian style and they characterise Provence’s age-old craftsmanship. The shutter above the main entrance has kept its little hatch, or spy hole, which would be looked through, without the observer being noticed, to see who was knocking at the door when all the shutters were closed. The house is nestled on a calm pedestrian street in the town centre. This road is an integral part of a symmetrical layout that offers a harmonious urban view: your gaze is drawn to a baroque theatre in a former chapel of the Order of Preachers and a small square beside it. Both were recently restored masterfully. Fine town houses stand along the main street that runs past the theatre and the square. The flagship site of a well-known firm of Provençal fabrics also lies on a nearby street. Tarascon is this firm’s historical birthplace. The dwelling’s roof of old red barrel tiles has been restored. Much of the interior needs to be renovated.

An enchanting 400m² apartment with a garden, court and patio in a 16th-century town mansion listed as a historical monument in southern France's Camargue region. The majestic fortified mansion was listed as a historical monument in 1943 in the middle of the Second World War. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. It was built in around 1530 during the first French Renaissance and it bears the main traits of this period. The edifice stands where several paths of history meet. This crossroads is both literal and figurative. It lies just south of the town’s royal collegiate church and the fortified chateau of René of Anjou. The house was the jewel in the crown of the medieval town’s aristocratic district, which showcased sumptuous princely homes up to the Second World War when the Allied bombings, carried out to liberate France, razed these gems to the ground. Among the ruins, this mansion was the only survivor from the district’s past splendour. In the 1950s, the charming home had to start sharing the company of soulless concrete blocks of accommodation born of the frenzied drive to rebuild liberated France and urgently rehouse its people based on a post-war Corbusian model of architecture. So the edifice is now at a junction between two worlds, where the Middle Ages and contemporary design collide, between two pivotal chapters in France’s long story. The building illustrates this poignantly: it seems to be turning its back on the royal chateau to face the modern housing nearby. It is guarded by tall walls that it inherited from its initial propose as a fortified house. These walls separated it from the nearby royal chateau and protected it from any devastating flooding from the River Rhône. Its old facade looks south at a range of 1950s brutalist buildings. To tone down this sharp contrast between historical architecture and modern structures, the local authorities added vegetation to the large paved square in front of the mansion, planting a cypress and olive trees here. Before then, this square was in a state of decline. Now it is a no-parking area. From this pleasant square, the property’s large entrance gate leads into the main courtyard of this Italian-style palace.

A 17th-century convent building converted into a house with courtyard garden, swimming pool, independent studio flat and panoramic views in Tarascon. The house is in the immediate vicinity of one of the city's most emblematic religious monuments: the “Chapelle de la Persévérance”. The facade of this place of worship is an iconic example of Baroque architecture, with its segmental arch portal, framed by two pilasters with Ionic capitals featuring garlands of flowers and an entablature with a three-sided architrave, frieze and modillion cornice. The house and its outbuildings, directly abutting the chapel, leave little doubt as to its original use as a convent. Indeed, the house still bears some traces of its original vocation, in particular the decorative motifs of the ground floor vaults. Founded in 1677 as a home for 'girls of ill repute', the chapel and its associated establishment were entrusted to the care of the Sisters of Notre-Dame du Refuge. Like most establishments of this type, created under the royal “in commendam” system, this umpteenth 'convent for repentant girls' was a resounding moral failure and soon became a notorious 'place of perdition'. It took barely half a century for it to evolve from a convent to a brothel. So much so, in fact, that this highly conspicuous place was forced to close by royal decree on the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, a good fifteen years before the Revolution. In 1803, under the First Empire, the modest convent buildings were sold as national property destined to be used as stables. Some of these buildings remain part of the present-day property. As for the chapel, it was used for the catechism known as 'perseverance', an in-depth teaching of the scriptures that children used to follow after their solemn communion - a history to which its current name bears witness. Today, contemporary art exhibitions are held here throughout the year, providing a rare opportunity to visit the church and admire its rich Baroque decor.

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EXCLUSIVE at Walter and house! Magnificent townhouse with courtyard, outbuildings, and private pool in the heart of the village and close to all amenities. Difficult not to fall under the charm! You enter a house full of history, with its sublime vaulted stone living room, its old fireplace, these cement tiles of time, these visible beams. In the calm and out of sight you can relax in its beautiful courtyard and its swimming pool. Tastefully renovated, the main house has 4 large bedrooms with two bathrooms with Italian shower and bathtub, polished concrete floor and high ceilings. On the top floor, a sheltered terrace where an outdoor gym is hidden with a view on the roofs. Completely independent, a studio of 26m ² and two other rooms are there to welcome family, friends or for rental report. At 15mn from the Alpilles, 20mn from the TGV station of Avignon and Arles A beautiful opportunity is offered to you! Pied à terre ? guest room, rental investment ? life project for a big family ? A visit is necessary !

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In the Camargue region of Provence, in a 16th-century, entirely renovated convent, a 600-m² distinguished home, nestled amid the peace and quiet of its tree-filled courtyards. Left in ruins for decades, the imposing convent was almost completely restored at the end of the 20th century, thanks to private initiatives. Bringing life back to the former convent, a property transaction then split the surface area into several distinguished residences, linked to one another via a tree-filled enclosure. One of its two entrances, on the side of the Mother Superior’s house, opens onto a small side street while the other one, monumental and vaulted, is now closed with a gate. The residence, of approximately 600 m², built in the noblest part of the convent, barely occupies a quarter of it, a proportion that alone conveys the gigantism of the original edifice. The neighbouring homes are occupied by lovers of architectural heritage keen to make this downtown enclosed space into one of the calmest and most secret places in Tarascon. Today, the vestiges of the former convent blend with those from the medieval hospital that pre-existed it, and of which it is not uncommon to discover, around a staircase or window, remaining ornamental features, traces of the historical upheavals that affected the town of Tarascon. In the 16th century the city decided to build a new hospital, thereby selling the premises of the former Saint Nicholas hospital, built in the 11th century to receive the poor and treat the ill, to the Order of Saint Ursula. Built upon the initiative of the Countess Etiennette of Provence, its chapel was consecrated by Pope Urban II upon his return from the first crusade. In 1657, in the former seat of Saint Nicolas, the sisters from the same order created, in their own right, their own institution for the free education of young girls. Founded in Italy in 1535 by Saint Angela Merici, the Order of Saint Ursula, first called the “Company of Saint Ursula”, arrived in France nearly immediately after its foundation, and progressively settled in the Comtat Venaissin as well as Bordeaux.

A completely restored late 18th-century tonwhouse with its three connecting enclosed courtyards in Tarascon. 'To live happily, live hidden' was the motto of the many famous people who have taken refuge behind the thick walls of the Tarascon houses. These discreet and silent houses are hidden behind medieval street corners, in little courtyards, under the shade of a church or a cluster of laurel trees. As soon as their doors are pushed open, they open onto lush gardens or refreshing landscaped courtyards. Next to all sizes of mansions, from the most sophisticated to the most discreet, alongside former convents, and the solid showy buildings built by rich merchants under the vast Renaissance porticoes, also to be found are surprisingly the more modest dwellings of fishermen with their indescribable charm that have recently aroused a great deal of interest. That is certainly the case for this unassuming house. Like many others in the area, it was built at the end of the 18th century for fishermen who depended on the Rhône as their source of food. Built in stone from the Boulbon and Fontvieille quarries or in blocks salvaged from Roman monuments and rendered in a pale colour, these small dwellings are generally two storeys high. Their facades have generous windows, with one on either side of the front door and two upstairs. Provided they receive loving attention, they offer unsuspected possibilities, with their multiple patios, interconnecting courtyards and beautiful old materials.

A small eighteenth-century town house with a patio, nestled on a calm, elegant street in the heart of the old Provençal town of Tarascon. From the fifteenth century, the prosperity of Tarascon drew many families: aristocrats as much as merchants and upper middle classes. Clergymen also came. These newcomers built grand private houses: they were keen to leave their mark on the town. The town houses of Tarascon often display rich architectural embellishments in the style of Provençal Mannerism, which dominated in the seventeenth century. But some of these town houses were also plain and small. Since the Middle Ages, town houses have been defined as simply urban dwellings occupied by single owners, so their size does not really determine their category. It was mainly from the eighteenth century onwards that small town houses – those with a floor area of less than 300m² – were built along commercial streets within Tarascon itself, where they were sheltered from the cold mistral wind of winter and from the hot sun of summer. They were made for wealthy merchants rather than for nobility and their style differs to that of grand, sumptuous palaces. The bombings of the Second World War damaged Tarascon but left almost all these old town houses intact: these historical dwellings were not close to the town’s strategic rail line, nor to the bridge across the River Rhône. These homes were often built upon ruins from the Middle Ages or antiquity and they all adopted a similar layout. Moreover, they are all made of the same fine materials: old monk-and-nun tiling, large tiles of grey Barbentane stone, wrought-iron window railings and walls made of limestone from the quarries of Les Baux-de-Provence and Fontvieille. Furthermore, they often reused fragments of column shafts from antiquity. Indeed, reuse of materials from the old remains upon which they were built is a constant feature among them.

A 17th century fortified farmhouse with its dovecote and convertible outbuildings between the Alpilles and the Camargue, in need of renovation. The date 1633, engraved in the stone above the entrance porch, could be misleading: the ancient rampart wall of stone from the Fontvieille quarries with its exposed corbels probably goes back much further. An iron gateway has been installed behind the heavy oak entrance doors. Two old barns, one of which was probably an oratory, frame the main building, which faces north-east/south-west. On the outer walls of the fortified building, animal ex-votos are carved into the limestone, bearing witness to the golden age of the local bullfighting traditions called 'bouvine”, under the impetus of the 'gentleman-guardian' Folco de Baroncelli. In the former hayloft, the pinkish-coloured Douglas fir beams support a fully restored monk-and-nun tile roof. The eaves feature a corbelled overhang ending in a traditional three-row frieze. A few openings protected by single-leaf shutters brighten up the main building. A dovecote topped by a four-sided roof set in the corner of the perimeter wall reflects the aristocratic status of the family that erected the estate and lived here for several centuries.

An 18th-century country house of 600 m², with natural swimming pool, park and 19-hectare olive-growing estate, 15 minutes from Avignon TGV station. This is a bastide with a history that is not easily unveiled. Its Provence name, which means 'to preserve and respect', may well refer to a Masonic practice that existed in 18th-century lodges but has since disappeared. And it was precisely at this time that the bastide was built, probably on top of pre-existing medieval foundations. A symbol in the centre of the park's majestic wrought-iron entrance gate adds to the mystery: a hexagram, or 'Star of David', suggests that the estate may have belonged to a Jewish banker in the service of the Avignon papacy. However, there are no official records to support this hypothesis, which has become a local legend. It should be remembered that the hexagram is a decorative figure found in Christian, Hindu, Japanese and pre-Islamic Arab architectural symbolism; the six branches of the star representing the six days of work, with the seventh day, the day of rest, in the hollowed-out centre of the geometry. The residence, surrounded by around 4 hectares of wooded parklands, is situated at the south-east end of a 15-hectare olive grove, criss-crossed by chequered tracks. Some of the earth paths run alongside one of the high dykes protecting the property from the Rhone River, which provides the entire estate with a much-envied wealth of silt and a constant supply of water. The bastide, at once an aristocratic residence and a farmhouse, displays all the distinctive features of its particular architectural style. As the construction of such a complex always takes time, the square, affluent 18th-century buildings were extended at the beginning of the 19th century by two lower adjoining buildings. Not far away, a single-storey outbuilding dating from the late 19th century, used as a caretaker's lodge, ensures from a distance that the peace and quiet of the bastide, a true 'manor house' surrounded by its estate, is preserved.

This peaceful 17th century private mansion located in the heart of Tarascon 15 minutes from Avignon TGV station and 1 hour from Marseille Airport had the good fortune to have been unscathed during WW2. Although not listed, it nonetheless boasts superb architectural features such as high ceilings, vaulted rooms, a stone staircase and oak parquet flooring. In an “L”-shape opening onto a near 235 sqm courtyard with a fountain accessing a heated indoor swimming pool, it benefits from no less than 5 independent entries. The ground floor reception rooms and other vaulted rooms are currently used as business premises but could easily be returned to their original function. 11 bedrooms are currently used as apartments, offices and conference rooms. With an attic and a 100 sqm garage which between the 17th and 19th century had the function of a coaching inn and stables. With immense potential, and in a prime location near Avignon and Arles, and 20 minutes from the Alpilles Nature Park.

Located in St Etienne du Grès, near the Alpilles and a few kilometers from Avignon, this house brings together many assets: total calm, very pleasant outdoor spaces, volumes and a remarkable brightness, as well as the advantage of having an independent apartment of 45m2! The house, recently modernized, now offers a beautiful living room of 70m2, extended by an office/ library space, as well as a TV lounge (can become an additional bedroom as needed). It also includes a beautiful master suite of 30m2 with bathroom and dressing room; as well as 2 other bedrooms, a bathroom and a laundry room. The apartment has a living room/ kitchen, a bedroom and its bathroom/ WC. In addition, many storage spaces (40m2 divided into several annexes). Not to mention its superb swimming pool 10x5m with submerged beach, its many terraces to enjoy the beautiful days including a shaded bioclimatic pergola, its carefully landscaped garden and its quality services (air conditioning reversible sheathed ceiling, fireplace insert, alarm, electric gate, automatic watering with water drilling, 2 sockets for electric cars, ..) It brings together everything you are looking for? Do not miss this opportunity to live in one of the most beautiful regions of Provence!

Beautiful architect-designed house of 285m2 of living space plus an outbuilding of 50m2 at the end of the garden. Located in the Alpilles, 400m from the center of Paradou. The house consists of a very large living room of 125m2 with a height of 8m under the central staircase. The living room’s bay windows open fully onto the bioclimatic pergola and the 4X10 swimming pool. The floors of the house and terraces are made of the same marble. Heating or cooling is done through the floor. On the ground floor, there is also a large 60m2 suite with a dressing room and bathroom. Also on the ground floor are an office, a laundry room, a shower room, and a guest toilet. On the first floor, around the corridors, there is a suite with a dressing room and bathroom, as well as two bedrooms with dressing rooms and shower rooms. The first floor is equipped with air conditioning. The tiled swimming pool is saltwater with automatic pH. Car parking with shelters. The golf course of Les Baux de Provence is 3 minutes away. Information about the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Georisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

This property offers great potential: originally constructed in the 70’s and with a living area of around 140m², this could be transformed into a welcoming and appealing family home once fully refurbished and updated. In line with the properties of that era, the main part of the house is oriented on the 1st floor whilst the ground floor is used for technical areas such as the laundry room, a garage, various storage rooms and, in this particular property, 2 bedrooms and a shower room. The house is set on a plot of 1868m² on which the construction of a swimming pool is possible and of equal interest is the fact that the plot can be sub-divided, and construction of a new house can be envisaged within the maximum limit of 30% of the ground area.

Exclusively, in the charming village of Paradou, this attractive semi-single storey villa built in 2012 will seduce you with its comfort and its modern, clean lines! It includes on the ground floor, an entrance, a living room opening onto a beautiful equipped and functional kitchen with central island, a dining room and a pleasant master suite with shower room of approximately 25m2. Then upstairs, two other bedrooms, a dressing room and a bathroom with bathtub and walk-in shower. Its living rooms are bright thanks to large openings giving access and a view of its pretty garden with a beautiful covered terrace and a pretty swimming pool measuring 6.35x3.50m promising you good times with your family! Two private parking spaces are also allocated to you. Equipped with reversible air conditioning, a thermodynamic tank and a softener, this property offers you quality services, no work is required! I invite you to contact us to organize a viewing appointment as soon as possible.

We offer you 10 minutes from Maussane les Alpilles, this magnificent property, a traditional Mas of 195 m2 with its olive garden, composed on the ground floor, a large independent kitchen of 20 m2 opening onto a sheltered terrace, 'a large living/dining room of 43 m2 facing south overlooking the terrace and the heated and secure swimming pool, an air-conditioned bedroom, 2 toilets, a bathroom, a shower room and a private space well -be (jacuzzi). Upstairs, 2 spacious bedrooms. Ideal location in a quiet and peaceful area with outdoor facilities conducive to relaxation. The Mas also has an outbuilding (T3 apartment of 70 m2, 2 bedrooms with garden) not overlooked on the property which can be used as a gîte, rentals.

Opportunity to be seized. Discover this bright, spacious house built in 2002, with a 46 m² living space open onto the kitchen and fireplace. Its 3 bedrooms and large bathroom offer an ideal setting for a made-to-measure renovation. The 404 m² garden, with its existing swimming pool, is ready to become your oasis of relaxation. In a peaceful neighborhood, this house is perfect for anyone looking to create a family nest. House for sale in Saint-Étienne-du-Grés. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: http://www.georisques.gouv.fr

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