Luxurious grand house with stunning views featured in House and Garden — Property 52878

Luxurious grand house with stunning views featured in House and Garden

An impressive and romantic property with breathtaking views set in the comfort of the countryside. Pure peace. Hot tub and salt water pool. Just forty minutes from Saint Tropez and at the heart of the Var and its historic towns and villages. Views over distant hills from both sides of the house, surrounded by gardens and olive trees, 5 mins to the market town of Lorgues, just under an hour from Nice airport, an hour and a quarter from Marseille, and ten minutes from the TGV station at Les Arcs. A warm welcome to families with children. A safe haven. The pool is alarmed, there are children's toys all in a safe fenced area, a trampoline and wendy house, bikes, toys, an extensive DVD and book library and UK TV Satellite. The house is luxurious and elegant. A chance for the family to de-stress. Outdoor chefs BBQ and kitchen. Outdoor seating; lunch and dinner for ten at one table, tea for six at a wrought iron pool table, upholstered benches,loungers

Location Lorgues Lorgues < Draguignan region < Var < Cote d'Azur - Provence < France

Availability for the house in Var, Cote d'Azur - Provence, France

Last updated on:

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Changeover day:

flexible

Normal availability

All year

Rental rates for the house in Var, Cote d'Azur - Provence, France

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Notes to the rental rates

• Linen and towels included, along with two times weekly cleaning service on rents of one week or more. All rates for six people. Additional people are £50/night, £250/week.
  
• A stress free holiday!
  

Accommodation and Facilities for the house in Var, Cote d'Azur - Provence, France

Hot tub. Panoramic views. Salt water pool

• Fig trees. Olive trees. Lavender. • A hot tub and a salt water pool • Lovingly landscaped gardens with soft water fed lawns. • Artistic and authentic rooms of large sizes. Cleaning service 2 times per week included • Cool in summer, thanks to its great central hallway, cosy in the winter with fireplaces in the two main rooms. Your children are safe, they have plenty to do. Sit outside early evening, enjoy the views with some local market olives, sliced saucisson, and a bottle of the local St Julien D'aille Viognier - our top recommendation - for its apricoty velvet gorgeousness. You'll sleep in perfect silence.

All you need to relax.

The master suite is tiled in antique ‘chateau’ flooring, the suite features a handsome oval bath, a walk in marble shower. It is a magnificent, cool, light space, which can be perfectly dark at night. With a formidable air conditioning system, this room is heaven itself! There is a wide screen television, DVD player and satellite SKY TV. All the British channels are available as well as many more. There is on hand a vast DVD library. The salon has a soft pink brown marble antique fireplace, French doors and large windows. Beyond it are two further bedrooms – and an en suite bathroom with antique detail. Upstairs the guest rooms are handsome and spacious and the bathroom glorious. On the ground floor there is a large study with an old pale white stone fire place, a laundry room, and a completely renovated large tiled kitchen with massive beautiful wooden framed windows which maximize the view.

Explore, the vineyards, forests and St Tropez!

The house of La Bélière is entered through a 10 metre high entrance hall, which helps it stay cool. Up the stairway are two large upstairs bedrooms and a new bathroom – in antique Italian marble, with a walk in shower. Upon entry, the visitor’s eye is lured to the breathtaking views. The grounds are magical, they descend through trees, past two ‘secret gardens’ we use for vegetables and strawberries, via fig trees, offering black and a white fruit in August, past a selection of fruit trees – the cherries are particularly wonderful in May down into the valley. For the last seven years we have harvested our own olive oil. At the bottom of the long garden are woods, and vineyards and the ruins of the old Béliere house, a special place steeped in history and offering nature's buffet in September - blackberries, figs, grapes. If you get bored - make your way to St Tropez, just 35-40 mins drive and wonderful, with a village-y feel in autumn and winter. Saturday market not to be missed.

Skiing Information:

Family skiing for the less advanced at Gréolières, just an hour and a half away, a real gem. Cheap and safe and family orientated. Isola 2000 offers wonderful skiing but at 1h45 mins.

Golf Information:

Domaine St Endreol is a mere 15 minutes away with fabulous golf and a divine luxury spa. We love it!