Luxury Villa & Château Rentals in France

Lavender, limestone and the blue Mediterranean

No region on earth has inspired more painters, poets and lovers of the good life than Provence. Rent a honey-stoned mas in the Luberon, the morning air already warm and scented with thyme, a private pool set into the terrace below limestone cliffs. Drive twenty minutes to the market in Gordes or L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, return with a basket of peaches, goat's cheese and a bottle of Bandol rosé, and do absolutely nothing for the rest of the day. This is the Provence that Cézanne painted and Peter Mayle wrote about — and it remains precisely as good as advertised.

On the Côte d'Azur, our 800+ properties range from a sleek minimalist villa above Cannes with a pool cantilevered over the sea, to a Belle Époque estate on Cap Ferrat — where the residential addresses are among the world's most valuable — to a hillside retreat above Antibes inside the Parc National de Port-Cros, to a stone bastide above Saint-Tropez's Pamplonne beach. Every property is individually vetted by our Riviera specialist, who knows every headland and hidden cove from Menton to Cassis.

The Riviera rewards those who know where to look: the quieter coves of the Var, the hilltop villages of the Esterel, the morning fish market at Nice's Cours Saleya. Our concierge knows all of them.

Grand wine estates, medieval villages and the Atlantic coast

The Dordogne is France at its most unhurried — a limestone plateau of river meanders, prehistoric caves and medieval bastide villages where the pace of life has been largely unchanged since the Hundred Years' War. Rent a turreted château above the Vézère and spend a morning at Lascaux IV before returning for lunch beside your private pool as the village church strikes noon. The Périgord's black truffle, duck confit and Bergerac wines make this one of France's most celebrated gastronomic landscapes.

In Bordeaux, the world's most prestigious wine region, our château rentals sit directly on the Médoc, Saint-Émilion, Pomerol and Sauternes appellations. The wine in your cellar is grown in your garden. Our concierge arranges private barrel tastings with the châtelain, introductions to négociants whose allocations are otherwise unobtainable, and helicopter transfers between the great estates. On the Atlantic coast, Biarritz and Hossegor deliver world-class surf alongside Basque cuisine and the dramatic Pyrenean foothills. Cap Ferret — a thin pine-covered peninsula between the Arcachon Bay and the Atlantic — offers one of France's most quietly fashionable retreats, favoured by Parisians who prize its deliberate lack of ostentation.