Destination No. 02 France
201 hotels 16 regions
Francethe hotel atlas
Riviera palaces and farmhouse inns, ski chalets and wine estates, region by region: each one written up in full, with the room to ask for and what it does not do well.
Written, not listed.
Every hotel here has a full portrait of its own: the house, the rooms worth asking for, who it suits and what it does not do well.
Hotels for different trips.
Grand houses next to twelve-room hideaways, region by region, so the choice starts with the stay you want rather than a price grid.
Scores when they mean something.
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The France hotels
201hotels
Arranged region by region, in the editors' sequence: an order for browsing, not a ranking.
The Riviera20 hotels
From Théoule to Menton: the Cap d'Antibes, Cannes and the Croisette, Nice, Cap-Ferrat and the hill villages above the sea.
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat
A 1908 house, a 2009 garden wing and three villas share the pine gardens at the tip of Cap-Ferrat, with the slope running down to Club Dauphin on the rocks.
9.3Cap d'Antibes
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
A white house at the top of a pine park, a pool blasted out of the rock at the bottom, and between them the walk that has organised summer days here for a century.
Èze
Château de la Chèvre d'Or
Forty-five rooms and suites spread through the lanes of Èze, a pedestrian medieval village on a limestone peak between Nice and Monaco, with terraced gardens above the sea, a heated pool and Tom Meyer's kitchen at La Chèvre d'Or.
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
The Maybourne Riviera
Sixty-five suites and studios, each with a sea view and a private terrace, set into the cliff above Roquebrune-Cap-Martin facing Monaco, with Surrenne Riviera across three floors, an infinity pool on the rock, Riviera Restaurant and abc kitchens riviera, and La Môme Riviera in a Cap-Martin cove, reached by the hotel shuttle.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
La Réserve de Beaulieu
Thirty-nine rooms, suites and villas on the seafront in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, facing Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat across the bay, with a heated seawater pool, a landscaped patio and Julien Roucheteau's Restaurant des Rois, 400 m on foot from the railway station.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Le Domaine du Mas de Pierre
A resort of Provençal bastides below Saint-Paul-de-Vence: 76 rooms and suites, an adults-only bastide with its own pool, a lagoon edged with real sand, a 25 m outdoor pool and a 2,000 m² spa with a heated indoor pool.
Promenade des Anglais
Le Negresco
A 1913 hotel on the Promenade des Anglais with 102 rooms and 28 suites, a collection of more than six thousand pieces, La Rotonde and Le Chantecler on the ground floor, a 700 m² spa, and N La Plage across the road in season.
Vence
Château Saint-Martin & Spa
A rebuilt château on the site of a Templar commandery above Vence, with junior suites in the house, six villas across the road, an infinity pool under the Baou and a summer restaurant in an old olive grove.
Èze
Château Eza
Fourteen rooms and suites in joined-up village houses at the top of medieval Èze, reached on foot, with a lounge bar by the fire, Justin Schmitt's La Table Gastronomique, a Wine Cave, and no pool or spa.
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Hôtel Royal-Riviera
Ninety-four rooms and suites at the neck of the Cap-Ferrat peninsula, in a hotel of 1904 and its garden annexe, the Orangerie, with a heated outdoor pool, a private sandy beach in season and Jean Mus gardens between road and sea.
Théoule-sur-Mer
Château de Théoule
A seventeenth-century soap factory turned crenellated residence on the harbour of Théoule-sur-Mer, reopened in spring 2024 with 44 rooms and suites across the château, the contemporary Villa Sirius and the Maison des Pêcheurs, a spa with outdoor Nordic baths, a heated pool and La Plage Blanche on the sand below.
Nice
Maison Albar Le Victoria
A hotel of 102 rooms and 30 suites on avenue de Suède in Nice's Carré d'Or, named after Victoria, the fifth generation of the Albar family: sea-view rooms with balconies or loggias over the Baie des Anges, a rooftop pool for residents, Taulissa restaurant and bar on the sixth floor, and the 650 m² Oria spa with an indoor pool.
Nice
Hôtel du Couvent
Eighty-eight rooms and suites in a former convent at the top of Old Nice, with terraced gardens, a 20-metre lap pool, a Roman-inspired bath circuit, its own bakery and herbalist, and a farm in the hinterland that supplies the kitchens.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Toile Blanche, Saint-Paul de Vence
Seven houses grown from a two-hundred-year-old mas below Saint-Paul de Vence, owned by the artists Nicolas, Gilles and Gregory Leroy: 22 suites in eight categories, each with its own patio, terrace, balcony, garden or pool, two restaurants, three shared pools, a gallery and a sculpture trail across 20,000 m² of Provençal gardens.
Cannes
Hôtel Martinez
An Art Deco house of 410 rooms and suites on the Boulevard de la Croisette since 1929, with a 2,800 m² garden, pool and spa behind the lobby and a beach club with a pontoon across the road.
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Monte-Carlo Beach
A summer hotel of the Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer on a headland in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a few steps over the French border from Monaco: 40 rooms and suites with interiors by India Mahdavi, an Olympic-size seawater pool, a private beach with tents and cabins, Elsa Marcel Ravin and a pine wood that is a bird refuge.
Cannes
Carlton Cannes, a Regent Hotel
The Belle Époque hotel of 1913 on the Croisette in Cannes, listed as a historic monument and reopened in 2023 after a two-year restoration as a Regent hotel: 332 rooms and suites, 72 with a sea view, 37 residences in two new wings around a garden with an infinity pool, the Carlton Beach Club across the road, three restaurants, a bar, a tea lounge and Le C Club fitness and spa.
Cannes
Barrière Le Majestic Cannes
A white hotel of almost a hundred years at 10 Boulevard de la Croisette, across from the Palais des Festivals: 349 rooms including 80 suites, a heated outdoor pool used all year, Ciro's Cannes on the private beach across the road, Beefbar Cannes, the Majestic Bar, a 450 m² spa and a kids' club for ages four to twelve.
Antibes
Cap d'Antibes Beach Hotel
A modern seasonal hotel on the Cap d'Antibes, between Port Gallice and Port du Crouton, reworked by the architect Bernard Dubois: 35 rooms and suites off white lacquered walkways, a private sand beach facing the Lérins islands, a pool above the sea, an exotic garden, BABA with Assaf Granit on the beach, and Les Pêcheurs for dinner.
Juan-les-Pins
Belles Rives
The Fitzgeralds' Villa Saint-Louis on the bay of Juan-les-Pins, a family-run hotel since 1929, with a pontoon, a beach and a water-ski club.
Monaco6 hotels
The principality and its edges: the Casino square, the harbour and the beach at the eastern end of the Riviera.
Monte-Carlo
Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Built in 1864 on the Place du Casino and renovated from 2014 to 2020 by Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer: 206 rooms and suites of at least 34 m², most with a balcony or terrace, Le Louis XV and Le Grill, the Bar Américain, a rooftop Wellness Sky Club and direct access to the Thermes Marins.
Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo
An independent, family-owned Belle Époque hotel opened in 1886 in Monaco's Carré d'Or, a few steps from the Place du Casino, set back behind palms and cypresses: interiors by Jacques Garcia since 2004, Les Ambassadeurs and Yoshi, the Lobby Bar, Karl Lagerfeld's Odyssey pool and the Spa Metropole by Guerlain.
Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
A Belle Époque hotel on Square Beaumarchais, a few steps from the Place du Casino, looking over the harbour to the Rock: a winter garden under a glass dome built by disciples of Gustave Eiffel, now home to the bar Gustave, two restaurants by Yannick Alléno, Diamond Suites on the top floor and an indoor passage to the Thermes Marins Monte-Carlo.
Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
A resort of the Société des Bains de Mer on a four-hectare garden peninsula at the eastern end of Monte-Carlo: 332 rooms and suites, three in four facing the sea, a sand-bottomed lagoon with waterfalls, an infinity pool heated all year, its own guarded stretch of sea, a Clarins spa and Marcel Ravin's Blue Bay.
Monte-Carlo
Fairmont Monte Carlo
An Accor hotel of the 1970s on the seafront below the Casino of Monte-Carlo, next to the Grand Prix hairpin that carries its name: renovated rooms and suites, each with a private terrace over the sea, the garden or the circuit, two rooftop pools with Nikki Beach and Amù, Nobu by the water, a lobby lounge that rarely closes and 7,000 m² of event space.
Monte-Carlo
Le Méridien Beach Plaza
A Marriott hotel of eleven floors on the Larvotto seafront in Monaco: 398 rooms and suites, the principality's only hotel with its own private beach, inside a protected marine reserve, a garden of maritime pines with seawater pools, an indoor pool under glass and the Sea Club conference centre next door.
Saint-Tropez & the Var16 hotels
Saint-Tropez and the Ramatuelle beaches, the Gigaro cove, the red rocks of the Estérel, and the vineyards and hill villages inland.
Ramatuelle
La Réserve Ramatuelle
A glass-fronted hotel on a pine-covered slope above the bay near Cap Camarat, where the day is planned from the spa outward and the beach and the town are a shuttle ride down the hill.
Saint-Tropez
Airelles Saint-Tropez, Château de la Messardière
A turreted château on 13 hectares of pines above the Bay of Pampelonne: 83 rooms and suites, several pools, a 1,000 m² spa, a 500 m² children's villa and Jardin Tropezina, its own restaurant and beach on the sand below.
Saint-Tropez
Cheval Blanc St-Tropez
Thirty-two rooms and suites and a four-bedroom villa on the Plage de la Bouillabaisse, at the entrance to Saint-Tropez, with a beach kept for resident guests and Arnaud Donckele's La Vague d'Or on the same grounds.
Le Castellet
Hôtel & Spa du Castellet
Ochre buildings in a 12-hectare park of pines on the plateau above Le Castellet, a kilometre from the airfield and next to the Circuit Paul Ricard: every room with a private terrace, a 700 m² spa, a six-hole golf course, Fabien Ferré's La Table du Castellet and open-fire cooking at Le San Felice.
Gigaro
Lily of the Valley
Philippe Starck's hillside hotel above the Plage de Gigaro at La Croix-Valmer, open all year: rooms, suites, pool suites and villas in planted houses beside the Cap Lardier estate, a Shape Club of about 2,000 m² and a beach club reached by shuttle.
Tourrettes
Terre Blanche Hotel Spa Golf Resort
A seasonal resort of 115 suites and villas on 301 hectares of wooded hills near Tourrettes, half an hour inland from the Mediterranean: two 18-hole courses by Dave Thomas, a 3,200 m² spa in an ochre bastide, an infinity pool and four restaurants facing the villages of the Pays de Fayence.
Le Lavandou
Les Roches, Le Lavandou
A hotel built on the rocks of Aiguebelle, just outside Le Lavandou, rebuilt to designs by the architect Jean-Baptiste Pietri: rooms and suites facing the sea just above the water, the restaurant L'Oursin, a lobster table on the roof, the Bar des Roches, an outdoor pool facing the Îles d'Or and the L'Oiseau Bleu spa with an indoor pool.
Saint-Tropez
AREV St. Tropez
A hotel on the quiet edge of Saint-Tropez, seven minutes on foot from the heart of the village: 35 rooms and suites across five residences in gardens of olive trees and parasol pines, an adults' heated pool and a family pool, The Strand restaurant, Q's Bar, a spa with Maison ST, a night-lit padel court and Place des Oliviers, a square of its own.
Lorgues
Château de Berne
A wine estate of 515 hectares between Lorgues and Flayosc in the Var hinterland, most of it forest: 150 hectares of organic vines, 34 rooms and suites, private villas and a château for hire, an 800 m² spa reached through a Japanese garden, three kitchen gardens and four places to eat, from Le Jardin de Berne to the summer L'Olivier.
La Croix-Valmer
Château de Valmer
A former bourgeois residence among organic vines at La Croix-Valmer, kept by the family that opened it as a guest house in the late 1940s: 44 rooms, suites and villas including two tree houses in old oaks, a palm avenue to Gigaro beach, a heated pool, an adults-only spa with an indoor pool, and two restaurants in a century-old palm grove.
Saint-Tropez
Hôtel La Ponche, Saint-Tropez
A small hotel in the old La Ponche quarter of Saint-Tropez, above the cove of the same name: 21 rooms and suites redesigned by Fabrizio Casiraghi, four apartments and a house, a restaurant whose terrace runs to the sea, the Saint-Germain-des-Prés-La Ponche bar, a pontoon for swimming and yoga, and a garage a minute away.
Saint-Tropez
Byblos Saint-Tropez
A hotel built in the 1960s like a Provençal village in the centre of Saint-Tropez, owned by the Floirat family since 1967: 86 rooms and suites in ochre and pastel houses around a heated pool, the B. Lounge, Il Giardino under its pergola, a rooftop Sky Bar, a Sisley spa, Les Caves du Roy and Byblos Beach at Pampelonne.
Saint-Tropez
Airelles Pan Deï Palais
A house built in 1835 by General Jean-François Allard on rue Gambetta, a few steps from the Place des Lices: twelve rooms and suites with carved wood and four-poster beds, a mosaic pool in a garden of palms and olive trees, the terrace restaurant Les Délices du Pan Deï, and transfers to the Airelles beach club on Pampelonne.
Saint-Tropez
Lou Pinet, Saint-Tropez
A seasonal hotel of the Maisons Pariente collection in the residential Pinet quarter of Saint-Tropez, a few minutes from the Place des Lices: 34 rooms and suites by Charles Zana in three houses around a heated pool, a garden of pines, lavender and herbs by Jean Mus, two restaurants, La Terrasse and Beefbar, an indoor and outdoor bar and a Tata Harper spa.
Ramatuelle
Villa Marie Saint-Tropez, Ramatuelle
A Sibuet family villa on the hill of Val de Rian in Ramatuelle, above the Bay of Pampelonne: 45 rooms and suites in a three-hectare pine forest, a heated lagoon pool set into the rock, the Dolce Vita restaurant under a glass roof and among the pines, and a Pure Altitude spa pavilion. Open from May to October.
Saint-Raphaël
Les Roches Rouges, Saint-Raphaël
A 1950s modernist building on the Corniche de l'Estérel east of Saint-Raphaël, facing the Île d'Or: 68 rooms and suites, a seawater pool carved into the rock and a heated lap pool, a pebble beach and dock, two restaurants, Estelo and La Chicoula, and a summer season from May to early October.
Provence22 hotels
The Luberon and the Alpilles, Aix, Avignon and Marseille, the calanques at Cassis and the lavender plateaus of Haute-Provence.
Gordes
Airelles Gordes, La Bastide
A house of more than five centuries in the village of Gordes, entered from rue de la Combe and descending in terraces and hanging gardens towards the Luberon: 34 rooms and six suites, four restaurants on site and in the village, a vaulted spa with an indoor pool, and a season that pauses in winter.
Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
Villa La Coste
Thirty-one suites on Château La Coste, an organic wine estate of some 200 hectares between Aix-en-Provence and the Luberon, where more than forty works of art and architecture line a four-kilometre walk; the guided tour and a tasting come with the suite.
Val d'Enfer
Baumanière Les Baux-de-Provence
A 20-hectare estate in the Val d'Enfer below Les Baux-de-Provence, run by the Charial family: 53 rooms and suites in five houses among gardens, plane trees and water, two restaurants, L'Oustau de Baumanière and La Cabro d'Or, three outdoor pools, a 500 m² spa and a wine cellar begun in 1945.
Mane
Le Couvent des Minimes
Forty-nine rooms and suites in a convent dating from 1613 and two newer buildings beside it near Mane, with terraced gardens, a Spa L'Occitane of more than 2,500 m², the gastronomic Le Feuillée and the Pamparigouste bistro.
Gargas
Coquillade Provence
A restored stone hamlet on a 42-hectare estate of vines, woods, lavender and olives above Gargas, with 69 rooms and suites, a cycling centre with BMC bikes and a Bike Clinic, two outdoor pools, a spa and the estate's own winery.
Aix-en-Provence
Château de la Gaude
An eighteenth-century bastide and wine estate in the Pinchinats district, ten minutes from the centre of Aix-en-Provence and facing Montagne Sainte-Victoire: seventeen rooms and suites, three restaurants, Le Art, La Source and Le K, the L'Atelier bar, a French garden listed as a historic monument, Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence vineyards and a spa.
Avignon
La Mirande, Avignon
A town house at the foot of the Palais des Papes in Avignon, built on a cardinal's residence of 1309 and restored by the Stein family from 1987: 26 rooms and suites dressed in printed cottons, a gourmet restaurant, a bistro, a tavern, a shared table in the old Pamard kitchen and a cooking school.
Lauris
Domaine de Fontenille, Lauris
A bastide in a ten-hectare park at Lauris, at the foot of the Luberon, owned since 2013 by Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher: 25 rooms and suites, La Cuisine d'Amélie and its terrace over the park, a permaculture kitchen garden, a heated pool and 40 hectares of organically farmed AOP Luberon vines.
Cassis
Les Roches Blanches, Cassis
A seaside house built in 1887 on the white limestone just beyond the port of Cassis, a hotel since the early 1920s: Art Deco rooms and suites, a separate four-bedroom villa, two heated pools including a 20-metre infinity pool, decks above the sea, a Sisley spa and Les Belles Canailles, all facing Cap Canaille.
Aix-en-Provence
Villa Gallici, Aix-en-Provence
An eighteenth-century Provençal bastide in the style of a Florentine villa, a short walk from the old town of Aix-en-Provence: 23 rooms and suites in damask, velvet and canopies, two villas in the garden, a two-hectare French-style garden with a heated pool, the restaurant La Taula Gallici under plane trees and a wine cellar shaped like a decanter.
Crillon-le-Brave
Crillon le Brave
A hotel of old village houses around the church of Crillon-le-Brave in the Vaucluse, facing Mont Ventoux, run by the Pariente family's Maisons Pariente: 26 rooms and 17 suites, La Table du Ventoux under chef Thomas Lesage, a spa in the eighteenth-century vaulted stables, a fitness room in the old chapel and, since the April 2026 reopening, two heated outdoor pools, one of them for adults only.
Joucas
Le Phébus & Spa, Joucas
A dry-stone farmhouse in the hills of Joucas, between Gordes and Roussillon, run by chef-owner Xavier Mathieu and his family: 30 rooms and suites, two of them categories with a private pool, the seven-suite Villa des Anges, La Table de Xavier Mathieu, Le Café de la Fontaine and a spa by Château Berger.
Bonnieux
Capelongue, Bonnieux
A hotel laid out like a hamlet of stone houses on the edge of the Claparèdes plateau, looking across to Bonnieux and the Petit Luberon: 57 rooms and suites, La Bastide with chef Noël Bérard, wood-fire cooking at La Bergerie, a bar known for its pastis, two outdoor pools and a spa with a Roman bath. Run by Beaumier, open from spring to autumn.
Ménerbes
La Bastide de Marie, Ménerbes
An eighteenth-century farmhouse between Ménerbes and Bonnieux, set among the vines of the Domaine de Marie: 14 rooms and suites, a restaurant on a terrace under a lime tree, a barn lounge built around a monumental fireplace, two outdoor pools, a small Pure Altitude spa, the estate's own cellar and three villas nearby.
Les Baux-de-Provence
Domaine de Manville
A former farm of 100 hectares at the foot of the Alpilles below Les Baux-de-Provence, revived by Edith and Patrick Saut: 30 rooms and suites around a courtyard with a fountain, nine houses with kitchens, a kids' club in the pines, an 18-hole golf course, a 600 m² spa, the Bistrot and L'Aupiho, with vegetables from the estate's permaculture farm.
Le Tholonet, Aix-en-Provence
Les Lodges Sainte-Victoire
An eighteenth-century bastide on the Route Cézanne at Le Tholonet, turned into a hotel in 2013: 35 rooms and suites in the bastide and the Les Terrasses building, three private villas with their own pools, a 200 m² spa with an indoor pool, two outdoor pools for hotel guests, one of them for adults only, and a terrace under plane trees facing Mont Sainte-Victoire.
Anse de Maldormé
Le Petit Nice Passedat
Two white villas on the rocks of the Anse de Maldormé, just below the Corniche Kennedy in Marseille's 7th, in the Passedat family since 1917: a seawater pool, Le 1917 at the edge of the terrace and Gérald Passedat's fish kitchen, all facing the Frioul islands.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Hôtel de Tourrel
A seventeenth-century hôtel particulier in the old centre of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, restored by its owners: nine rooms and suites furnished with twentieth-century design, La Table de Tourrel on the first floor, a fourteen-seat Rooftop restaurant, a seasonal pool on the roof and a wine shop of 1,400 bottles.
Moustiers-Sainte-Marie
La Bastide de Moustiers
An eighteenth-century bastide below Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, bought by Alain Ducasse in 1994 as his own refuge: eleven rooms and two suites in the house and its pavilions, a 4-hectare park of lavender and old olive trees, a kitchen garden of almost 2,000 m², a restaurant with a shaded terrace over the valley and a heated outdoor pool.
Bonnieux
Le Mas les Eydins
A nineteenth-century mas at the foot of the Petit Luberon below Bonnieux, restored as a guest house by Alexandra and Christophe Bacquié: five rooms around a patio, a suite-apartment and a cottage, a garden of olive trees, rosemary and lavender, a pool sheltered from the wind, and La Table des Amis, with one six-course menu at dinner.
Vauvenargues
Hôtel Sainte-Victoire
A small modern hotel in Vauvenargues, on the northern side of Montagne Sainte-Victoire: fifteen rooms that all face the mountain, two of them suites, a south-facing outdoor pool, and La Table, where chef Mateus Marangoni cooks Mediterranean and Brazilian food on a terrace looking across to Picasso's château.
Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban
La Bonne Étape, Château-Arnoux
An eighteenth-century post house on the Route Napoléon at Château-Arnoux, between Manosque and Sisteron, kept by one family for generations: eighteen rooms furnished with period pieces, a pool in the garden, an organic kitchen garden, Jane Gleize's restaurant La Table de Jane and Bistro Gaby, named after her great-grandmother.
Languedoc & Toulouse11 hotels
Nîmes, Uzès and the Pont du Gard, Montpellier and the vineyards of the Hérault, and Toulouse in the southwest.
Lavérune
Domaine de Biar
An eighteenth-century folly at Lavérune, on the western edge of Montpellier, reached through a stand of bamboo: 13 rooms and suites named after people and places of the estate, a park with a herd of horses, an unheated summer pool, a hammam and treatment room, and the restaurant La Table de Biar under chef Mathieu Garcin.
Hameau de Combes
Château de Montcaud
A château built from 1848 for the silk trader Alexandre Eugène Collain, in a walled park of five hectares at Sabran in the Gard, restored in 2017-2018 and run by Andrea and Rolf Bertschi: 29 rooms and suites, a heated pool, a tennis court, the Bistro de Montcaud, the gourmet restaurant Le Cèdre de Montcaud and the Cocon de Montcaud treatment rooms.
Assignan
Château & Village Castigno
A wine estate that took over part of a hill village in Saint-Chinian country: 21 rooms in red, pink and purple houses around the square of Assignan, a detached villa with its own pool, three restaurants, a small spa, and a cork-clad cellar shaped like a bottle among 30 hectares of organic vines.
Castillon-du-Gard
Le Vieux Castillon
Eighteen medieval houses in the hill village of Castillon-du-Gard, near the Pont du Gard, linked by walkways, steps and shaded patios: 34 rooms and suites, a pool reserved for hotel guests and heated from May to October, La Table du Castillon for dinner, Joio on the village square and a Spa by Clarins.
Castelnau-le-Lez
Domaine de Verchant
A vineyard estate at Castelnau-le-Lez, on the edge of Montpellier, owned by Chantal and Pierre Mestre: 49 rooms and suites split between the Maison de Maître and a contemporary wing opened in 2025, a park by the Bühler brothers, a spa with an indoor pool, the restaurant Marcelle and La Plage beside the pool facing the vines.
Nîmes
Maison Albar Hotels L'Imperator
The grand hotel of Nîmes, on the Quai de la Fontaine a short walk from the Maison Carrée: 54 rooms and seven private houses around an inner garden with a ginkgo biloba, an outdoor pool, a 350 m² Codage spa with an indoor pool, and three venues under Pierre Gagnaire: Duende, the brasserie L'Impé and Bar Hemingway.
Martignargues
La Maison du Passage
An adults-only guest house on the church square of Martignargues, between Nîmes, Uzès and Alès, in buildings that once formed part of the village defences. Hervé and François run it: rooms and suites for two, three with a private hot tub, a shared tub on the roof, a heated summer pool and dinner cooked by François on most evenings.
Toulouse
Maison Soclo
An eighteenth-century residence on the rue Valade in the centre of Toulouse, between the Garonne quays and the Place du Capitole: bedrooms in four categories inspired by British interiors, a lounge with a fireplace, a glass-roofed dining room, Le Bar de Gaspard, and at the back a garden with a century-old cedar, a pool and a pétanque pitch.
Uzès
La Maison d'Uzès
A listed private house of the seventeenth century in the old centre of Uzès, part of H8 Collection and Relais & Châteaux: 13 rooms and suites around a monumental stone staircase, a 150 m² Spa by Clarins under Romanesque arches, a small pool in the patio and Christophe Ducros's La Table d'Uzès a few steps away.
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Le Prieuré Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
A cardinal's house of 1332 in old Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, across the Rhône from Avignon, owned since 2007 by Jean-André and Geneviève Charial of Baumanière: rooms and suites in three buildings around a cloister courtyard, a priest's garden, a pool, and Christophe Chiavola's restaurant under a wisteria trellis.
Montpellier
Hôtel Richer de Belleval
A seventeenth-century mansion on place de la Canourgue in Montpellier's old town, the city hall from 1816 to 1975: twenty rooms and suites, Le Jardin des Sens and the bistro La Canourgue by Jacques and Laurent Pourcel, the bar L'Élytre in the former wedding hall, and an art foundation whose exhibitions are open to all.
Corsica10 hotels
The island of granite and maquis: Porto-Vecchio and Bonifacio in the south, Calvi in the north, the mountains in between.
Zonza
Domaine Le Mouflon d'Or
A house built by the PLM railway company early in the twentieth century, in a park of cedars and chestnut trees at Zonza in the Alta Rocca, brought back to life by Lise Canarelli and Anthony Bornea: 25 rooms and suites, two stone caseddu at the forest edge, the restaurant A Nepita, two bars, a heated outdoor pool and the Spa Nucca.
Porto-Vecchio
Casadelmar, Porto-Vecchio
A hotel of wood, glass and stone by the architect Jean-François Bodin, set in a 3-hectare garden by Jean Mus that runs down to the Gulf of Porto-Vecchio: 34 rooms and suites, all facing the sea with terraces, a 25-metre pool, a gastronomic restaurant and Il Pontile by the water, a myBlend spa and a private villa with its own pool.
Oletta
La Dimora, Oletta
An eighteenth-century farmhouse in the Nebbio hills above the Gulf of Saint-Florent, on the Patrimonio wine route: 17 rooms and suites around a patio of olive trees, two villas with private pools, a heated pool with curtained cabins, a small water room with hammam, and the restaurant Pera Bianca in the old stone sheepfolds.
Olmeto
Hôtel Marinca & Spa
A family-run seaside hotel on a cliffside above the gulf of Valinco at Olmeto Plage, in south-west Corsica: rooms and suites in pale wood and marble facing the sea, La Verrière with chef Romain Masset, La Paillote on the private beach, three outdoor pools among pines and a 600 m² Clarins spa with an indoor pool.
Bonifacio
Version Maquis Citadelle
A low, modern hotel on the maquis hillside of Brancuccio, facing the old town of Bonifacio across the inlet: rooms and suites that each open onto a private terrace, an infinity pool set in a teak deck, La Vista restaurant with an Italian chef, a bar by the pool and a 600 m² spa with a banya and an indoor pool.
Calvi
La Villa Calvi
A family hotel on the heights of Calvi, opened by Marion and Jean-Pierre Pinelli in 1992: 48 rooms, suites and apartments on a 3.5-hectare slope facing the bay and the citadel, five pools, the La Villart art gallery, La Table by La Villa with chef Fabio Volontè, and a 500 m² spa.
Lecci
Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa
A family-run hotel on the Cala Rossa peninsula, 7 km north of Porto-Vecchio, run by Hélène and Lise Canarelli: 39 rooms and suites in gardens of umbrella pines above a long sandy beach, a wooden pontoon into the bay, La Pinède under the pines, a tree house and the adults-only Nucca spa with a heated indoor pool.
Pinarellu
Les Regalia
A family-run hotel of 21 rooms and three suites above the bay of Pinarellu in south Corsica, built by the Carli family in island stone and recycled wood: a heated pool with loungers in the water, the restaurant Alba on a terrace over the gulf, an L'Occitane spa and a path through a nature reserve to the beach.
Sartène
Domaine de Murtoli
A farming estate of some 2,500 hectares in the Ortolo valley near Sartène, in the far south of Corsica, run by the Canarelli family: about twenty restored shepherds' houses and old stone houses let one by one, a nine-room hotel at the farm, three restaurants, a beach kept for guests, a 12-hole golf course and a summer spa by the sea.
Corte
Hôtel Dominique Colonna
A contemporary house of stone and wood in the Restonica valley above Corte, named after the international footballer who started it: rooms opening onto an olive garden, a terrace and a staircase down to the river's natural pools, a heated pool under the alders, a massage house over the water, and the family's Auberge de la Restonica next door for dinner.
The Alps33 hotels
Courchevel, Méribel and Val d'Isère, Megève and Chamonix under Mont Blanc, and the lakes of Annecy and Geneva in summer.
Courchevel 1850
Cheval Blanc Courchevel
The first Cheval Blanc house, opened in 2006 on the Jardin Alpin at Courchevel 1850, in the Savoie Alps: 36 rooms and suites with direct access to the Three Valleys slopes, Le 1947 à Cheval Blanc with Yannick Alléno, a Guerlain spa with an indoor pool, a club for children and another for teenagers, open only in winter.
Courchevel 1850
Le K2 Palace
A hamlet of wood and stone on the Cospillot piste at Courchevel 1850, built by the Capezzone family's Le K2 Collections: a main house of 29 rooms and suites, six Suites-Chalets and four chalets with their own pools, all linked by an indoor passage, with the Goji Spa, L'Altiplano, Le Bottleneck, Le 8611 bar, Le Winston Klub and a Kids Klub.
Megève
Four Seasons Resort Megève
A ski-in, ski-out resort on the slopes of Mont d'Arbois above Megève, built by the Edmond de Rothschild family on the ground Noémie de Rothschild chose for her ski resort: 55 rooms and suites, Benjamin and Kaito, a two-level wine cellar, a 900 m² spa with an indoor-outdoor pool, and a kids' club and teen zone.
Courchevel 1850
L'Apogée Courchevel
An Oetker Collection hotel on the Jardin Alpin in Courchevel 1850, opened in December 2013 on the hill built for the resort's ski jump: 53 rooms and suites, a penthouse and two chalets by Joseph Dirand and India Mahdavi, dining rooms redesigned by Kelly Wearstler, a private conveyor from the slope to the ski room and a La Prairie spa below ground.
Courchevel 1850
Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin
Rosewood's first ski hotel, opened in December 2025 on the Jardin Alpin in Courchevel 1850: a ski-in ski-out chalet faced in Vals quartzite, wood and copper, with interiors by Tristan Auer, 51 rooms, suites and houses, personal ski concierges, the SALTO restaurant and lounge, and an Asaya spa with a 17-metre indoor pool.
Val d'Isère
Le K2 Chogori
Two chalets of stone, wood and slate joined by an inner corridor in the old village of Val d'Isère, below the bell tower of the Église Saint-Bernard: 19 rooms and suites and two penthouses from the Capezzone family's Le K2 Collections, with Le Bottleneck, the bar Le 1954, a Goji Spa with a 12-metre pool and a Kids Klub.
Courchevel 1850
Aman Le Mélézin
A four-storey Aman house directly on the Bellecôte piste in Courchevel 1850, open for the winter season: 28 chambres, suites and apartments, a ski room with heated boot racks and ski butlers, the Japanese restaurant Akari, yakiniku on the terrace at lunch, and a spa with a 14-metre pool spread over two floors.
Courchevel 1850
Airelles Courchevel
An Austro-Hungarian snow castle with turrets and a hand-painted facade in the Jardin Alpin of Courchevel 1850, open in winter only: 44 rooms and suites, La Table des Airelles, Le Coin Savoyard, Palladio and Matsuhisa, a mountain restaurant on the Verdon slope, a spa by La Mer, and a Winter Camp for children with its own rink.
Évian-les-Bains
Hôtel Royal, Évian-les-Bains
A Belle Époque hotel opened in 1909 on the hillside above Évian-les-Bains, in a park of about 19 hectares facing Lake Geneva: 150 rooms including 32 suites, Les Fresques under Gustave Jaulmes's painted ceilings, a 1,700 m² evian®SPA and a Kid's Resort for children from four months to 17 years.
Megève
Zannier Le Chalet Megève
The first Zannier hotel, opened in 2011 on the route du Crêt in Megève: twelve rooms and suites in old wood, most with a balcony or terrace, the restaurant La Ferme de mon Père, an afternoon pâtisserie buffet and lounge bar in winter, and a spa with a heated indoor pool and two treatment rooms.
Val d'Isère
Les Barmes de l'Ours, Val d'Isère
A hotel of wood and stone at the foot of the Face de Bellevarde, the Olympic run of Val d'Isère: 76 rooms and suites on four floors, each in its own style, three restaurants under chef Antoine Gras, the Sofa Bar, a 1,000 m² Sisley spa with an indoor pool, and a bowling alley of its own.
Tignes
Les Suites – Maison Bouvier, Tignes
The Bouvier family's hotel in Tignes Val Claret, at 2,100 metres: 24 suites that convert into 31 rooms, interiors first composed by Catherine Bouvier, the Whitney bar by the fire, Clément Bouvier's Ursus in a dining room of nearly 380 tree trunks, a spa with an indoor pool, and the family's other tables across the resort, up to Le Panoramic at 3,032 metres.
Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Armancette, Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce
A wood chalet hotel in the village of Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce above Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, facing the Dômes de Miage in the Mont Blanc massif: nineteen rooms, family rooms and duplexes, a bakery and tea room on the site of the old village bakery, La Table d'Armante and Le Mont Joly bistro, and a spa with an indoor-outdoor pool.
Megève
Flocons de Sel Megève
Emmanuel and Kristine Renaut's house at the top of the Route du Leutaz, on the Rochebrune massif above Megève: a restaurant in untreated wood with a cellar of nearly 1,200 wines, ten rooms, suites and mazots, and a small spa with a heated indoor pool and a Swedish bath on the terrace.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Le Hameau Albert 1er, Chamonix
A family hotel by the station in Chamonix, run by the fifth generation of the Carriers: the 1903 Albert 1er building, three Savoyard farmhouses of reclaimed wood added in 1997, two chalets in the garden, 37 rooms, suites and chalets in all, the gastronomic Albert 1er, La Maison Carrier, and a heated indoor-outdoor pool facing Mont Blanc.
Val d'Isère
Airelles Val d'Isère
A ski-in, ski-out hotel on the snow front of Val d'Isère, at the edge of the Vanoise National Park: 41 rooms and suites with interiors by Christophe Tollemer, five apartments and Chalet Schuss, Le Bar Rouge and Le Fumoir, Palladio, Matsuhisa and Le Piaf, La Grande Ourse a few steps away, a 1,200 m² Guerlain spa and the Winter Camp for children.
Méribel
Le Kaïla, Méribel
A stone-and-wood hotel in the centre of Méribel, open from early December to early April: rooms and suites from 25 to 295 m², many with fireplaces and some that connect, L'Ekrin and the brasserie Le 80 under chef Laurent Azoulay, a NUXE spa with a 250 m² aquatic area, a LEGO kids' club and a ski shop that opens onto the piste.
Talloires
Auberge du Père Bise
An inn on the Bay of Talloires, Lake Annecy, opened by François and Marie Bise in 1903 and run since 2016 by Jean and Magali Sulpice: 22 rooms and suites in the main building and the Maison du Jardin, a gastronomic restaurant, the bistro Le 1903, the Marius Bar, a pontoon on the lake and a spa with a 13-metre indoor pool.
Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
La Bouitte, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
A chalet in the hamlet of Saint-Marcel, above Saint-Martin-de-Belleville in the Three Valleys, opened in 1976 by René and Marie-Louise Meilleur and run today with their son Maxime and his wife Delphine: eight rooms and seven suites, the family's restaurant, La Bèla Vya spa with an indoor pool and an outdoor hot tub, open for a winter and a summer season.
Annecy-le-Vieux
Le Clos des Sens
A Second Empire house of 1866 on the hillside of Annecy-le-Vieux, once the village's first school: a restaurant cooking lake fish and vegetables from within about 100 km, eleven rooms below and under the old roof, a terrace under centuries-old chestnut trees facing the Bauges, and a garden with a swimming lane, a Nordic bath and hammocks.
Megève
Les Fermes de Marie
Nine connected chalets of rebuilt farm timber in a two-hectare park near the centre of Megève, with a 1,000 m² Pure Altitude spa, a fondue cellar and a shuttle to the Chamois gondola.
Val Thorens
Altapura
Eighty-eight rooms and suites on rue du Bouchet, just below the centre of Val Thorens, with an in-house ski shop opening onto the snow and the Plein Sud chairlift at hand.
Courchevel 1850
Fouquet's Courchevel
The former Hôtel Barrière Les Neiges on the Bellecôte piste at Courchevel 1850, now in Barrière's Fouquet's collection: 22 rooms and 20 suites in larch and soft fabrics, Loulou and La Table Savoyarde, The Lounge Bar by the fire, a ski room by Bernard Orcel, a 1,000 m² spa and the Alpine Club for children and teenagers.
La Clusaz
Au Cœur du Village, La Clusaz
A timber-and-stone house in the centre of La Clusaz, opened in 2010 by Gaston Pollet-Villard and his son Olivier: 19 rooms, 41 suites and a two-level chalet, a ski room 50 metres from the first lifts, the 450 m² Cristal Spa, an English smoking room, and two restaurants, Le Cœur and Le Cin5, under executive chef Vincent Deforce.
Méribel
Le Coucou Méribel
A wooden chalet hotel of the Maisons Pariente collection at 1,600 metres on the Belvédère slope above Méribel, designed by Pierre Yovanovitch: 55 rooms and suites with direct access to the Three Valleys, a ski room opening onto the piste, three restaurants, the Bar des Pistes, a Tata Harper spa with indoor and outdoor pools, and two private chalets.
Uriage-les-Bains
Maison Aribert
Christophe Aribert's house in the park of Uriage-les-Bains, 12 km from Grenoble: a renovated chalet with a glass-and-timber restaurant built onto it, a café open every day, nine guest rooms in two houses a few steps apart, and a 50 m² room of hot and cold basins.
Courchevel 1850
Hôtel Saint Roch Courchevel
A Maisons Pariente house on the Bellecôte run in Courchevel 1850, reopening under a new identity in December 2026: 37 rooms and suites by the studio Friedmann & Versace, a restaurant run with Prunier of Paris, a bar, a spa with an indoor pool, a ski room and a Kids Club, open for the winter season only.
Courchevel 1850
Le Strato
A family hotel in the Bellecôte quarter of Courchevel 1850, in Savoie, created by the Boix-Vives family and named after the Strato ski that Laurent Boix-Vives designed at Rossignol in 1965: rooms, duplexes and a chalet, each with a balcony or terrace, ski-in, ski-out access from the Cospillot piste, a ski room by Bernard Orcel, Slalom 1850 with chef Thomas Prod'homme and a spa with a heated indoor pool.
Courchevel 1850
Six Senses Residences Courchevel
Privately owned apartments in the centre of Courchevel 1850, let for winter stays through Six Senses: two to five bedrooms, each with a full kitchen and balcony or terrace, a round-the-clock concierge, a ski lodge at the La Croisette lifts, a spa with an indoor pool and Sumosan's Japanese restaurant on the ground floor.
La Legettaz
Club Med Val d'Isère
Club Med's first Exclusive Collection resort in the mountains, at La Legettaz in Val d'Isère, 1,850 metres up, where the club has been since 1962: 216 Deluxe rooms and suites, the market-hall buffet Le Bellevarde, Les Millésimes on booking, the bars La Légende and Le Chalet, a 17-metre indoor pool, a Cinq Mondes spa and clubs from age four.
Courchevel 1850
Le Chabichou, Courchevel 1850
A family hotel begun in 1963 in a nine-bedroom chalet at the heart of Courchevel 1850, run since 2018 by the Lavorel group: 41 rooms and suites plus an apartment under the roof, the gourmet restaurant of chef Stéphane Buron, Le Sidonie bar and restaurant, a 1,000 m² spa and its own ski shop. Open in winter only.
Megève
Lodge Park, Megève
A hotel in a private park in the pedestrian centre of Megève, across the village square from the Chamois gondola: 29 rooms and suites in alpine-lodge style, the Beef Lodge steakhouse, a bar that runs from brunch to cocktails by the fire, and a 1,000 m² Pure Altitude spa with an indoor pool and longevity treatments.
Val d'Isère
Le Blizzard, Val d'Isère
The Cerboneschi family's hotel on the main street of Val d'Isère since 1963: 70 rooms and suites in a wood-and-stone chalet enlarged many times, a fireside bar, three restaurants including La Luge and La Mourra, a heated outdoor pool facing the Bellevarde, and the snow front 150 metres away.
Lyon, the Rhône & Auvergne10 hotels
Lyon and its old town, the Beaujolais, the Drôme's olive country and the volcanic Auvergne to the west.
Ouches
Troisgros – Le Bois Dormant
The Troisgros family's 17-hectare estate at Ouches, ten minutes from Roanne: Le Bois sans Feuilles, César Troisgros's three-Michelin-star restaurant in a glass dining room around a century-old oak, and 15 rooms in an Italian-style villa, Le Bois Dormant, and the Maison des Kakis, among meadows, woods, ponds, an orchard and a permaculture garden.
Valence
Maison Pic
The Pic family's house on the old Nationale 7 in Valence: sixteen rooms and suites over a garden and a green patio, Anne-Sophie Pic's three-Michelin-star Restaurant Pic, Bistrot André named after her grandfather, Bar Pic in the lounges, and a heated pool beyond a small gate at the end of the garden.
Fourvière, Lyon 5e
Villa Maïa
A small hotel on the hill of Fourvière, on the former Antiquaille site above Vieux Lyon: 27 rooms, six suites and one apartment, built by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, decorated by Jacques Grange, with gardens by Louis Benech, baths with a 20-metre indoor pool, and Christian Têtedoie's restaurants next door.
Vonnas
Georges Blanc Parc & Spa, Vonnas
A family inn in Vonnas, in the Bresse, grown since 1872 into a village of some thirty houses around the market square and the river: 42 rooms and suites, a gourmet restaurant, L'Ancienne Auberge, a glass-roofed spa with indoor and outdoor pools, the Dovecote Park and the family's own bakery, grocery and wine shop.
Le Broc
Origines, Le Broc
Chef Adrien Descouls's contemporary house at the end of the Plateau de la Chaux in Le Broc, near Issoire, at 450 metres, below the ruins of the village castle: eleven rooms and suites facing the Auvergne mountains or the castle walls, a restaurant behind a wall of glass, a bar, stone terraces on the old rampart walk and a cellar strong in Auvergne wines.
Fourvière, Lyon 5e
Villa Florentine
A seventeenth-century convent partway up the hill of Fourvière, above Vieux Lyon, renovated by Beauvallon Collection with interiors by Joséphine Fossey: 36 rooms and suites in eleven categories, an outdoor heated pool, the Apoticari spa, the gastronomic La Table under a glass roof, Le Comptoir, the speakeasy Segreto and a tea room.
Grignan
Le Clair de la Plume, Grignan
Les Maisons du Clair de la Plume in Grignan, Drôme provençale: 29 rooms and suites in four houses below the château, from a seventeenth-century canons' house facing the village washhouse to a farmhouse of 1760, with a natural pool in a Mediterranean garden, a heated pool, a gastronomic restaurant under a glass roof and a bistro on a veranda.
Presqu'île, Lyon 2e
InterContinental Lyon – Hôtel-Dieu
Lyon's former Grand Hôtel-Dieu on the Rhône, with Soufflot's eighteenth-century façade and dome: 144 rooms and suites by Jean-Philippe Nuel over three floors, half of them facing the river, a bar beneath the cupola, the restaurant Epona with a terrace in the Cour Saint-Louis, and the shops, cafés and cloisters of the Grand Hôtel-Dieu around it.
Vieux Lyon, Lyon 5e
Cour des Loges Lyon, A Radisson Collection Hotel
A Renaissance complex on the rue du Bœuf in Vieux Lyon, its first walls dating from 1341, reopened in 2025 as the first Radisson Collection hotel in France: 61 rooms and suites around a marble-paved Florentine courtyard under a 17-metre glass roof, Anthony Bonnet's Les Loges and Le Comptoir, Bar 1341 and a spa with an indoor pool.
Lyon 9e
Les Suites de l'Île Barbe
On the private part of Île Barbe in the Saône, in the remains of the abbey church of Saint-Martin–Saint-Loup: a few suites and rooms kept by a family living on the property since 1891, a 3,000 m² park of century-old trees with a view of the river, a private landing, and no restaurant on site.
Burgundy & the Jura9 hotels
The Côte d'Or vineyards around Beaune, the Morvan and the Jura's forests and lakes.
Gilly-lès-Cîteaux
Les Sources de Vougeot
The Château de Gilly at Gilly-lès-Cîteaux, a former priory and residence of the abbots of Cîteaux close to the Clos de Vougeot, reopened in 2026 by Alice and Jérôme Tourbier: 49 rooms and suites around a moated courtyard, a Caudalie spa with two pools in the fourteenth-century cellar, two restaurants under chef Julien Martin and a private house in the old mill on the Vouge.
Levernois
Hostellerie de Levernois
A Burgundian country house in a seven-hectare park on the river Bouzaise, five kilometres from the centre of Beaune and a member of Relais & Châteaux: 39 rooms, suites and villas, La Table de Levernois under chef Philippe Augé, the Bistrot du Bord de l'Eau in the kitchens of the 1750 house, a 3,500 m² organic kitchen garden and a Sisley spa.
Saint-Jean-de-Trézy
Domaine de Rymska
An 80-hectare estate of meadows, ponds and woods in the Couchois, 30 km from Beaune: a thoroughbred stud with some twenty brood mares, a farm raising Wagyu and Aubrac cattle, Mangalitza pigs, lambs and poultry, thirteen rooms and suites in three buildings, La Table de Rymska under chef Jérémie Muller, a private spa and a heated summer pool.
Montigny-la-Resle
Château de la Resle
A château and its former farm at Montigny-la-Resle, between the Chablis vineyards and Auxerre, collected and furnished since 2005: ten rooms and suites, several hundred works of art and design, a heated outdoor pool, a small spa, and La Table de la Resle, a set-menu dinner for hotel guests.
Puligny-Montrachet
COMO Le Montrachet
A nineteenth-century village inn facing the square at Puligny-Montrachet, a few steps from the Le Montrachet vineyard: 28 rooms in three buildings redesigned by Paola Navone's Otto Studio, a restaurant under chef Romain Versino, a wine bar, a cellar of 1,250 references kept by head sommelier André Berthier, and a 25-metre outdoor pool for the summer.
Vault-de-Lugny
Château de Vault-de-Lugny
A moated château with a medieval keep on an 80-hectare estate at Vault-de-Lugny, near Avallon and Vézelay, run by the Bourzeix family: 16 rooms and suites in the château and a cottage in the park, Le Valucien in a glass pavilion under chef Franco Bowanee, and an indoor pool and jacuzzi under the old cellar vaults.
Saulieu
Le Relais Bernard Loiseau
The Loiseau family's inn at Saulieu, on the old Nationale 6 at the edge of the Morvan Regional Natural Park: 34 rooms and suites on four floors around an oak staircase tower, Dominique Loiseau's garden, the restaurant La Côte d'Or under chef Louis-Philippe Vigilant, a 1,500 m² spa and the bistro Loiseau du Morvan across the road.
Port-Lesney
Château de Germigney
An eighteenth-century house in a 3.5-hectare park at Port-Lesney, in the Loue valley of the Jura, owned by the Gelé family: 28 rooms and suites in the main house, an annexe and the spa building, La Table du Château under chef Alexandre Marza, Le Bistrot de Port-Lesney in the village, a natural swimming pool and a 500 m² Caudalie vinotherapy spa.
Beaune
Hostellerie Cèdre & Spa, Beaune
A Beauvallon Collection hotel in the centre of Beaune, facing the old ramparts and a short walk from the Hospices: 40 rooms and suites around a wooded garden, the gastronomic Clos du Cèdre in a winegrower's house of 1876 and the bistro Table Gourmande, both under chef Jordan Billan, The Library bar with its fireplace, and a Nuxe spa in a vaulted stone cellar.
Champagne, Alsace & Lorraine11 hotels
Reims and the Champagne slopes, the wine villages and half-timbered towns of Alsace, and the woods of Lorraine.
Champillon
Royal Champagne
Forty-seven rooms and suites set into the vine slope at Champillon, above Épernay and the Marne valley, with a 1,500 m² spa, two pools, the gastronomic Le Royal and the brasserie Le Bellevue.
Colroy-la-Roche
La Cheneaudière Hôtel & Spa
A family-run mountain hotel at 500 metres above Colroy-la-Roche in the Bruche valley, between Strasbourg and Colmar: 45 rooms, suites and villa suites, a Nature-Spa of 2,500 m² over three levels, chef Jean-Paul Acker's two restaurants, Le Feuillage and Le Chêne, and the Calixte lounges, where bathrobes are the daytime dress.
Reims
Domaine Les Crayères
A château inaugurated in 1904 for the Pommery family's daughter, in a park on Saint-Nicaise hill in Reims, run by the Gardinier family: twenty rooms and suites in the château and its cottage, Le Parc, Brasserie Le Jardin and Bar La Rotonde, with the champagne cellars of the hill within walking distance.
Montenach
Domaine de la Klauss
A hotel opened in 2016 by Alexandre Keff on a hill above Montenach, in the Pays des Trois Frontières where France meets Luxembourg and Germany: 28 rooms and suites in stone cut from the estate's own land, the Simone suite at the top of the tower, the restaurant Le K, an 800 m² spa under stone vaults, an outdoor pool with a bar in the water, Spanish horses, and the family's Auberge de la Klauss a few steps away.
Illhaeusern
Hôtel des Berges
The Haeberlin family's hotel in the garden of the Auberge de l'Ill at Illhaeusern, on the banks of the Ill: rooms and suites named after cigars, a Fisherman's Cottage at the water's edge, junior suites in a timber spa building by Jouin Manku, the 800 m² Spa des Saules and an outdoor pool heated all year.
Wingen-sur-Moder
Villa René Lalique
René Lalique's own house of 1920, in a six-hectare park in the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park at Wingen-sur-Moder: a hotel since 2015 with six suites named after Lalique designs, a restaurant and wine cellar by the Swiss architect Mario Botta, and the Lalique factory and museum down the road.
Kaysersberg
Le Chambard Kaysersberg
An eighteenth-century house on the main street of Kaysersberg, on the Alsace wine route, run by Olivier and Patricia Nasti with their daughters Manon and Clara: 33 rooms and suites, La Table d'Olivier Nasti, a winstub, the Levain bakery, the Skulptur chocolate shop, Le Salon for tea and a 200 m² spa.
Lembach
L'Auberge du Cheval Blanc & Spa, Lembach
A former post house on the Rue de Wissembourg in Lembach, in the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park, run by chef Pascal Bastian and Carole Bastian since 2008: 21 rooms and suites in the main building and the Maison Alsacienne, a gastronomic restaurant under coffered ceilings and a 400 m² spa with a heated indoor pool.
Strasbourg
Les Haras, Strasbourg
The eighteenth-century stud farm of Strasbourg, on the old ramparts at the entrance to Petite France, restored by the surgical research institute IRCAD with interiors by Jouin Manku: 115 rooms and suites in the stud buildings and a former clinic, a spa with an indoor pool, a bar in the little stable and the Brasserie des Haras in the great stable.
Langres
Clos Vauban
A nineteenth-century house on the ramparts of Langres, at the Porte des Moulins, opened by Laurent and Martine Petit and run by Valentin Loison and Anaïs Bercegeay: eight rooms and suites, the top floor under an iron roof frame, wicker from nearby Fayl-Billot, the restaurant Bulle d'Osier, the dining room Mirabelle and a kitchen garden of more than 3,000 m².
Colmar
La Maison des Têtes
A house with a carved Renaissance façade at 19 Rue des Têtes in the old centre of Colmar, owned by the chef Éric Girardin and Marilyn Girardin: 21 rooms in four categories, an inner courtyard of pink sandstone, Restaurant Girardin with fourteen settings, the wood-panelled Brasserie Historique and the Winstub Bartholdi.
Around Paris & the North8 hotels
Versailles and Chantilly within an hour of Paris, Lille and the Flemish north, and the Opal Coast.
Versailles
Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle
The only hotel within the grounds of the Château de Versailles: Le Grand Contrôle, built in 1681 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for the Controller-General of Finances and opened by Airelles in 2021, with 15 rooms and suites, a personal butler for every guest, private visits to the château and the Trianon estate, Alain Ducasse's Royal Feast and a spa with a 15-metre pool.
Busnes
Domaine de Beaulieu
A château built in 1680 behind its moat at Busnes, near Béthune, run since 2021 by Delphine and Christophe Dufossé: 28 rooms and suites, a Sothys spa with a heated 20-metre indoor pool, a permaculture kitchen garden with an orchard and a citrus collection, a refuge farm, and two restaurants, Côté Parc and the brasserie Côté Jardin.
Chantilly
Auberge du Jeu de Paume, Chantilly
A Relais & Châteaux hotel of the Sana group inside the Domaine de Chantilly, between the château gardens and the Grandes Écuries: 92 rooms and suites in toile de Jouy, a bistro, Le Jardin d'Hiver, a lounge bar with bookcases and an open fire, and a 600 m² Valmont spa with an indoor pool.
Guainville
Domaine de Primard
An eighteenth-century château on the river Eure, at the edge of Normandy and about an hour from Paris, inside gardens laid out by Jacques Wirtz: 39 rooms and suites in the château and three converted estate buildings, a rose garden of 250 varieties, a Susanne Kaufmann spa, a heated pool and two restaurants, run by Fontenille Collection.
Versailles
Les Lumières Versailles
Two seventeenth-century pavilions at 5 rue Colbert, on the Place d'Armes about 120 metres from the gates of the Château de Versailles: 31 rooms and suites named after figures of the Enlightenment, a first-floor gallery for breakfast and tea, the Bar des Philosophes, La Table des Lumières and a small spa.
La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil
La Grenouillère
Alexandre Gauthier's restaurant with rooms in an old farm below Montreuil-sur-Mer: eight semi-buried huttes in the fen, four rooms in the farmhouse, three suites with private gardens at the Maison de la Source, and a dining room by the architect Patrick Bouchain that shares its space with the kitchen and opens onto the garden.
Vieux-Lille
Clarance Hôtel Lille
A private mansion built in 1736 for the Countess d'Hespel on the rue de la Barre in Vieux-Lille, a Relais & Châteaux member since 2016: 27 rooms and suites named after poems by Baudelaire, an organic garden with a lily pond, fruit trees and a beehive, a library with a spiral staircase, and La Table, where Gaëtan Citerne has cooked since September 2025.
Valenciennes
Royal Hainaut Spa & Resort Hotel
The former general hospital of Valenciennes, begun in 1752 on the order of Louis XV and opened as a hotel in 2019: 79 rooms and suites, 42 of them suites, around a 3,500 m² courtyard of red brick and blue stone, with a 1,200 m² spa and vaulted pool, a brasserie, an Italian restaurant, a glass-roofed lounge bar and a deconsecrated chapel.
Normandy & Brittany12 hotels
Honfleur and the Normandy coast, Saint-Malo, the Pink Granite Coast and the Gulf of Morbihan.
Honfleur
La Ferme Saint-Siméon
A seventeenth-century farm on the heights of Honfleur, an inn since 1825 and the table of Mère Toutain's painters: 35 rooms in the historic house, the half-timbered Pavillon and the old cider press, 20 of them with a private hammam, Les Impressionnistes and La Boucane under chef Matthieu Pouleur, and the Spa Potager in the old kitchen garden.
Dinard
Castelbrac
Twenty-three sea-facing rooms in three buildings on the Dinard cliff, facing the walls of Saint-Malo, with Pourquoi Pas, the Aquarium Bar, a heated swimming lane and a 12-metre wooden launch.
Le Buot
Château Richeux – Les Maisons de Bricourt
A 1920s villa above the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, five kilometres from Cancale, run by the Roellinger family as part of Les Maisons de Bricourt: twelve rooms looking over the sea or the park, Hugo Roellinger's restaurant Le Coquillage on the first floor, a wood-fired bakehouse, a Celtic kitchen garden and an orchard running down towards the shore.
Bénerville-sur-Mer
Maison Douce Époque
A 1909 manor on the slopes of Mont Canisy above Deauville, in a three-hectare wooded park facing the Côte Fleurie: 14 rooms and suites in the Manor and its former stables, Le Romanesque restaurant, the Bar des Dames, and a spa with indoor and outdoor pools, for guests aged 16 and over.
Kervignac
Domaine de Locguénolé
A nineteenth-century château above the Blavet estuary at Kervignac, near Lorient, a hotel since 1966 and part of Beautiful Life Hotels since 2020: rooms in the Château, the Manoir, the Orangerie and the Club, decorated around the Compagnie des Indes, two restaurants under chef Yann Maget, an outdoor pool, a pontoon and Spa Macha in the former stables.
Pointe de Pen Lan
Domaine de Rochevilaine
A hamlet of granite houses on the Pointe de Pen Lan at Billiers, where the Vilaine meets the Atlantic: two inland manors rebuilt here stone by stone by Henri Dresch, 34 rooms and suites, 300 metres of private rocky shore, a restaurant over the water and a 1,300 m² sea spa. Run by the Jaquet family since 1997, open all year.
Trébeurden
Manoir de Lan-Kerellec
An early twentieth-century villa on the slopes above Trébeurden, on the Pink Granite Coast, owned by the Daubé family since 1925 and run by Pauline Daubé: 18 rooms facing the islands of Milliau and Molène, a dining room under a ceiling carved like an upturned hull, where Anthony Avoine cooks lobster, a lounge bar with a large fireplace, beach cabins and a massage room.
Sainte-Anne-la-Palud
Hôtel de la Plage
A family-run Relais & Châteaux hotel built in 1895 on a 2.5-kilometre beach at Sainte-Anne-la-Palud, on the bay of Douarnenez in Finistère: rooms and suites over the sea or the hydrangea garden, a panoramic restaurant run by chef Yoann Noël, a bar, a heated outdoor pool, a tennis court and the small Tevenn Bras spa.
Saint-Jouin-Bruneval
Les Pins de César
A 20-hectare family estate in a valley behind the cliffs of Étretat, planted with Austrian pines by the owners' great-grandfather César: 19 rooms in the old family houses, Garden Rooms and a Chalet, dinner by the fire in the lounges, a NUXE spa with a covered pool, and 13 hectares of woodland.
La Gacilly
La Grée des Landes
Yves Rocher's eco-designed hotel on a hill just outside La Gacilly, in inland Morbihan: low wooden buildings under green roofs in 10 hectares of moorland, 36 ground-level rooms and suites with private terraces, a cabin in a cypress tree, the organic restaurant Les Jardins Sauvages and an Yves Rocher spa.
Roscoff
Le Brittany & Spa, Roscoff
A stone manor brought from Le Faouët to Boulevard Sainte-Barbe in Roscoff and rebuilt facing the Île de Batz: 29 rooms and suites in the manor, the contemporary Terraces wing and around an inner patio, a Thalion marine spa with a heated indoor pool, Nori under the manor's stone arcades and the Sunset Bar by its granite fireplace.
Deauville
Hôtel Barrière Le Normandy
A half-timbered hotel of 271 rooms and suites between the casino and Les Planches, papered in toile de Jouy, with clubs for children and teenagers, a Guerlain spa and an indoor pool for the days the Channel turns grey.
The Loire9 hotels
The châteaux of the Loire and its tributaries, from Blois and Cheverny to Fontevraud, Nantes and the Atlantic.
Le Grand-Lucé
Château du Grand-Lucé
A neoclassical château of creamy tuffeau, completed in 1764 for the Baron de Lucé, on the square of Le Grand-Lucé in the Sarthe: 19 rooms and suites, the restaurant Le Lucé and the bar Jack Pine's, a spa in the old laundry house, and 80 acres of gardens, kitchen garden, lake and white-oak woods inside the original medieval wall.
Cheverny
Les Sources de Cheverny
A country estate a few minutes from the Château de Cheverny, opened in 2020 by Alice and Jérôme Tourbier of Les Sources de Caudalie: 49 rooms and suites shared between Château du Breuil, a hamlet of wooden cabins by a lake and stone houses near the orchard, two restaurants, a Caudalie spa and an outdoor pool among the trees.
Blois
Fleur de Loire, Blois
Chef Christophe Hay's hotel in a seventeenth-century former hospice on the left bank of the Loire, facing the old town of Blois: 44 rooms and suites in two wings around an inner courtyard, the gastronomic Christophe Hay restaurant, the riverside L'Amour Blanc, a Pastry Kiosk, a bar and a 450 m² Sisley spa with indoor and outdoor pools.
Reugny
Château Louise de La Vallière
The sixteenth-century château where Louise de La Vallière spent much of her childhood, in Reugny between Tours and Amboise, turned by its owner Mira Grebenstein and the decorator Jacques Garcia into a twenty-room hotel on the theme of the royal favourites: two restaurants, a champagne bar in the old library, the spa La Rosée, an outdoor pool and formal gardens above the Brenne valley.
La Plaine-sur-Mer
Maison Anne de Bretagne
Chef Mathieu Guibert's house opposite the little port de la Gravette at La Plaine-sur-Mer, on the Côte de Jade south of the Loire estuary: 15 rooms and suites redesigned by Caroline Tissier and reopened in July 2026, an ocean-facing dining room, a cellar of more than 2,500 wines, a heated garden pool and a seaside bistro at Tharon-Plage.
Carquefou
Château de Maubreuil
A château in its own park at Carquefou, on the edge of Nantes: seventeen rooms, suites and apartments, each themed on a place in the world, gardens laid out as a tour of other countries, a Cinq Mondes spa in the vaulted cellars, two outdoor pools for the summer and La Table du Marquis, supplied by the estate's own farm.
Veuzain-sur-Loire (Onzain)
Les Hauts de Loire, Onzain
A nineteenth-century hunting lodge on a 70-hectare wooded estate at Onzain, between Amboise and Blois and a short drive from Chaumont-sur-Loire: 36 rooms and suites in the lodge, La Demeure and Le Pavillon, a gastronomic restaurant under Arthur Peta, Le Bistrot, a Spa by Clarins, a heated summer pool and three walking trails through the park.
Esvres-sur-Indre
Loire Valley Lodges
Twenty-one lodge-suites on stilts, four metres up in the Duporterie forest near Esvres-sur-Indre, each decorated by an artist, each with a terrace and its own hot tub. Opened in 2020 by Anne-Caroline and Bertrand Frey: an estate closed to cars, with an art path, an organic farm, the restaurant Ardent and an unheated pool.
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye
Fontevraud L'Ermitage
A hotel in the Saint-Lazare priory, inside the walls of the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud near Saumur: 54 rooms designed by Patrick Jouin and Sangit Manku, a restaurant run by chef Thibaut Ruggeri, breakfast in the cloister, and the abbey grounds open to hotel guests long after the day visitors have gone.
Bordeaux & the Atlantic12 hotels
Bordeaux and its vineyards, Saint-Émilion and the Médoc, Cognac, La Rochelle and the dunes of Arcachon.
Martillac
Les Sources de Caudalie
Sixty-two rooms and suites in six houses among the vines of Château Smith Haut Lafitte at Martillac, in the Pessac-Léognan appellation, about twenty minutes by car south of Bordeaux.
Massignac
Domaine des Étangs
A château of more than 700 years on a wooded estate of 1,000 hectares near Massignac, with seven rooms in the château, four suites in the Longère and six farmhouse cottages.
Bommes, Sauternes
Lalique Hotel Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey
A Sauternes estate at Bommes, its vines planted from 1618 around a thirteenth-century porch and wall towers, bought in 2014 by Silvio Denz of Lalique: ten rooms and three suites furnished with Lalique crystal, Restaurant Lalique under Jérôme Schilling, a bar for the estate's Sauternes and, in summer, a courtyard restaurant.
Saint-Émilion
Château du Palanquey
A château in eleven hectares of its own vines at Sainte-Colombe, ten minutes from Saint-Émilion, run by Mélanie and Laurent Zontone: six rooms and suites, two with a private hot tub on a terrace, salons in a row with a billiard table and a fireplace, a table d'hôtes on reservation and an Esthederm spa with an indoor and an outdoor pool. Adults only.
Cognac
La Nauve, Hôtel & Jardin
A Belle Époque residence and nineteenth-century former distillery a few minutes from the centre of Cognac, restored by a local architect: twelve rooms in the main house and the Petit Chai, gardens of about four hectares running to the Charente, the restaurant Notes, the Brasserie des Flâneurs, a bar and a heated outdoor pool.
La Rochelle
La Villa Grand Voile, La Rochelle
A white-stone shipowner's house of 1715 on a quiet street by the Vieux-Port of La Rochelle, opened as a hotel in 2020 by chef Christopher Coutanceau and Nicolas Brossard: eleven rooms and suites in shades of blue, each named after a fish, shellfish or crustacean, a planted courtyard with a heated pool, a cognac bar, and the chef's two restaurants a few minutes away on the Plage de la Concurrence.
Saint-Estèphe
La Maison d'Estournel
The private house of Louis-Gaspard d'Estournel, founder of Cos d'Estournel, a few hundred metres from the estate's pagodas in Saint-Estèphe: fourteen rooms and suites designed by Alex Michaelis in a century-old park, a restaurant under Jérôme Banctel, a cellar table and a heated pool facing the vines. Owned by Michel Reybier; open for the main season only.
Cognac
Hôtel Chais Monnet & Spa, Cognac
Cognac cellars built from 1838 for a growers' cooperative and later the house where Jean Monnet began his career, turned into a hotel by the architect Didier Poignant: 92 rooms and suites in four buildings, Les Foudres among the old storage tuns, La Distillerie, Bar 1838 in the former cooperage, and a spa with an indoor and outdoor pool.
Pyla-sur-Mer
Ha(a)ïtza
Thirty-eight rooms, suites and an apartment above a pastry shop, bar, brasserie and boutique on a Pyla street corner, with the family's café across boulevard de l'Océan.
Saint-Émilion
Hôtel de Pavie, Saint-Émilion
The Perse family's hotel in the centre of Saint-Émilion, beside the bell tower of the monolithic church: 17 rooms and suites in the Bell Tower House and the Village House, five more suites in an eighteenth-century trading house, a raised terrace over the roofs, and La Table de Pavie, where Yannick Alléno signs the menu.
Pyla-sur-Mer
La Co(o)rniche
A 1930s neo-Basque hunting lodge on the flank of the Dune du Pilat, facing the Banc d'Arguin and Cap Ferret, reopened in 2010 by William Techoueyres with Philippe Starck: 29 rooms, most of them junior suites in pine cabins modelled on oyster farmers' huts, a seafood restaurant on a long terrace and an outdoor bar.
Saint-Émilion
Logis de la Cadène
An inn founded in 1848 on a small cobbled square in the medieval centre of Saint-Émilion, owned since 2013 by the de Boüard de Laforest family of Château Angelus: eight rooms named after years in the family's history, a gastronomic restaurant under chef Thibaut Gamba, a wisteria pergola and a cellar of several hundred growths.
The Basque Coast & the Landes7 hotels
Biarritz and the Basque villages, the pine forests and lakes of the Landes, and Eugénie-les-Bains inland.
Biarritz
Hôtel du Palais
Eighty-six rooms and fifty-six suites in the rebuilt summer residence of Napoleon III and Eugénie, between the Grande Plage and Miramar beach, with a seawater pool for the season and a Guerlain spa for the rest of the year.
Eugénie-les-Bains
Les Prés d'Eugénie
An eight-hectare estate in the spa village of Eugénie-les-Bains, in the Landes, founded by Christine and Michel Guérard and run by their daughters Adeline and Éléonore: 45 rooms and suites in the Main House, an eighteenth-century convent and a former inn, seven gardens, a thermal spa in a Landes farmhouse and four places to eat.
Anglet
Brindos, Lac & Château
A Hispano-Moorish château built in 1936 on the shore of one of France's largest private lakes, in Anglet, a few minutes from Biarritz: 29 rooms and suites in the château, ten floating lodges reached only by electric boat, La Table du Lac, a bar on the pontoon and a Gemology spa with an outdoor pool.
Bidart
Les Frères Ibarboure
A family house in a two-hectare park on the inland side of Bidart, between Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz: thirteen rooms with private loggias in two neo-Basque buildings, a heated pool, a sauna cabin among the trees, and the restaurant of Xabi and Patrice Ibarboure in an eighteenth-century Basque house on the same grounds.
Soorts-Hossegor
Les Hortensias du Lac
A Basque-Landes Art Deco villa on the western shore of Lac d'Hossegor, run as a surf lodge by Fontenille Collection: 25 rooms and suites in three buildings among pines, a 450 m² spa, a heated infinity pool facing the lake, a glass-walled restaurant with a terrace, a summer Beach House and a secure surf room, 200 metres from the ocean.
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle
L'Auberge Basque, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle
A Labourd farmhouse of 1672 at Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, half-timbered on one side and glazed on the other, facing La Rhune: taken over in 2006 by Cédric and Marion Béchade, with twelve rooms and suites redesigned by Marion, a heated pool in the garden, the Café Basque at lunch and Cédric Béchade's tasting route at dinner.
Magescq
Relais de la Poste, Magescq
A family inn on the old road through the Landes pine forest, run by the Coussaus since 1952: sixteen rooms and suites, most with a balcony or terrace over the garden, a seven-hectare park with pines, an orchard and the family's own vines, a heated outdoor pool, an indoor wellness area and Jean Coussau's south-western cooking.
Dordogne & the Lot5 hotels
River valleys, cliffs and castles: the Périgord around Brantôme and Trémolat, and the Lot around Cahors.
Lacave
Château de la Treyne
A château on a cliff above the Dordogne at Lacave, in the Lot, owned by the Gombert family since 1982: eighteen rooms and suites, a Louis XIII dining room and a terrace over the river, a French garden with a cedar of some three centuries, a heated infinity pool and 300 acres of private forest.
Trémolat
Le Vieux Logis, Trémolat
A former priory and tobacco farm in the village of Trémolat, in the Dordogne, handed by Bernard and Madeleine Giraudel to four long-serving members of their staff: 25 rooms in the main house and the Logis des Champs, a dining room in the old tobacco-drying shed, a terrace under lime trees facing a French formal garden, a swimming pool and a bistro on the village square.
Mercuès
Château de Mercuès
The former summer residence of the count-bishops of Cahors, a thirteenth-century castle on a rocky outcrop above the Lot, owned by the Vigouroux family since 1983: 30 rooms and suites, 32 hectares of Malbec vines, an underground cellar beneath the gardens, La Table de Mercuès with chef Clément Costes, and a 25-metre outdoor pool.
Saint-Nexans
La Chartreuse du Bignac
A seventeenth-century chartreuse on a hill 8 km south of Bergerac, bought in 2000 by Brigitte and Jean-Louis Viargues and run by the family: 12 rooms and suites in the house and its outbuildings, 22 hectares of park, ponds and orchards, an outdoor pool with views over the hills, and a restaurant led by chef Jean Twari.
Brantôme
Le Moulin de l'Abbaye
An ivy-covered seventeenth-century mill on the Dronne in Brantôme, facing the abbey and the Pont Coudé: twenty rooms in the mill, the Miller's House and the Abbot's House across the river, a restaurant with a terrace over the water, and two bistros in the village.
The city
Hotels worth
the journey.
Outside Paris, a great French hotel is usually the reason for the trip rather than a base for it: a palace on the Cap d'Antibes, a farmhouse in the Luberon, a chalet at the foot of the Courchevel pistes, a wine estate outside Bordeaux. Nineteen of them hold France's Palace distinction, more than in Paris.
Each one is written up in full and graded out of ten on the same scale as Paris, so a farmhouse in Provence can be weighed against a palace on the Riviera. Region by region below, and on the map; Paris has its own page.