On offer for vacation rental for holidays in South West France, this luxury villa built in 1905 has been lovingly restored by the current owners and furnished with the family fine antiques. Amenities include:

• 6 spacious bed rooms, sleeping up to 12 guests
• 5 full bathrooms (4 en-suite) and 3 half baths,
• 2 formal sitting rooms with fire places, an upright piano, stereo set…,
• a comfortable TV room (satellite) and computer room (broadband),
• an extremely well equipped kitchen with adjoining dining room seating 16,
• a second summer kitchen opening on a terrace,
• outdoor dining areas seating up to 18 overlooking the tranquil park and garden,
• all electrical equipment: washer, dryer, dishwashers, microwave, coffee maker….,
• Game areas: billiard, table tennis, table football, badminton, work-out space.,
• Large pool with solar heating and flood lights,
• Membership to local tennis club, privileged access to local 18 hole golf course, (Les Bastides d'Albret)
• Bi-weekly maid service, possibility to upgrade to daily as well as chef (extra charge)
• on advanced request, organisation of short or weekly stays centered on or blending activities such as cooking lessons, wine tasting, visits to farmers markets, introduction to local art, history and culture and in house concerts.
• This luxury villa is nestled in the sleepy village of Lavardac (Lot-et-Garonne) in South West France in the heart of Gascony. Lavardac is ca 100 km from either Toulouse or Bordeaux and just 15mn from the motorway linking the two South of France metropoles. This charming rural area offers access to some of France’s best food, wines, and tourist sites and will allow you to enjoy your vacation rental without the hassle of the crowds.

• Within 5 minutes: the fortified mill and Romanesque bridge of Barbaste, the village of Vianne still behind its walls from 1284 offering various handicraft shops, a glass factory, a lively night market and many dining possibilities.
• 10 to 30 minutes away:
         - Nérac, an important cultural Center in South France at the time of Henri IV and his ancestors.
         - Agen the administrative center of Lot et Garonne,
         - Condom, center of one of the Armagnac regions, Eauze being the other one,
         - The remains of a Roman villa with splendid mosaïcs in Seviac,
         - The walled hamlet of Larressingle, rebuilt with American donations,
         - Pujols, one of 100 most beautiful villages of South France.

• Within a couple of hours are many of the 3 star tourist sites in South of France
         - Cordes/Ciel, a hill top medieval village,
         - Albi with its Toulouse-Lautrec museum and superb painted cathedral,
         - All the chateaux of the Bordeaux wine region and the town of St Emilion,
         - The two South West pilgrimage sites of Lourdes and Rocamadour,
         - The prehistoric caves with 30,000 year paintings: Pech Merle, Les Eyzies, Lascaux,
         - The Atlantic Coast with the Belle Epoque towns of Biarritz, Arcachon…,
         - The Pyrenees Mountains: Cirque de Gavarnie, Pic du Midi, Basque Country…,
         - Northern Spain: Bilbao and the Guggenheim, Pamplona , St- Sebastian.