La Bastide de Fléchon

Maussane-les-Alpilles

Where the garden ends and the Alpilles begin, no one really knows. Swim to the edge of the infinity pool, and the olives, the cypresses and the hills are all that is left in front of you. Five bedrooms for ten, in a hamlet near Maussane-les-Alpilles.

House manager

Breakfast included

Daily housekeeping

Linen and towels

One hectare of garden

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From €2,500 / per night

Weeks in summer, Saturday to Saturday; from three nights the rest of the year

Included in your stay

Mornings are ours: breakfast laid and served, every room restored. Afternoons and evenings are yours, in complete privacy, with our concierge a message away. Should you wish our team to stay on, a chef to cook, or the beds turned down at dusk, we arrange it à la carte.

What’s included

Breakfast, a buffet of local and seasonal produce, prepared and served by our team

Housekeeping every morning

Bed linen and towels renewed during the stay

A house manager and our concierge every day in office hours: the welcome, the tour of the house, bookings, transport and our addresses

The garden and the pool looked after, the pool heated from May to September

The house itself: Wi-Fi, Sonos, bath products renewed, candles, books and pétanque

Cleaning on departure

On request

Our team in the afternoon or the evening

Turndown at dusk

Extra hours of housekeeping

Dry cleaning

A private chef

Table service

Childcare

Groceries and wines

Experiences and excursions

Wellness

Transfers

History

A name that ties two houses

1779
The hamlet of Fléchon is already on the Cassini map of 1779: a handful of houses gathered around a bread oven, at the end of a road through the garrigue. The land register dates one of them to the middle of the 17th century. Farmers kept the house until the last of them died without heirs and left all he had to the village and to the church.
1914
One name links the house to our first: before 1914 the foreman of the Chabran oil mill, the man who watched over its millstones and presses, was called Lucien Fléchon.
2019
We found the house nearly in ruins and rebuilt it in Les Baux limestone, with lime, clay, sand and plant pigments on the walls: our second house after Chabran, open to guests since 2019.

House

Interiors

The living room

75 m² for living and dining, around an antique stone fireplace that still works: deep sofas, coloured rugs, furniture found at the flea markets, a table for twelve, and high windows open onto the terrace and the pool.

A living room with deep sofas, a stone fireplace and tall arched windows, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A living room with a long sofa, a spiral staircase and an arched window, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The kitchen and the table

A kitchen of 28 m², kept traditional: high cornice cupboards, glazed shelves and a worktop of bronze-coloured travertine, a Falcon range, a wine fridge, and a high table for six where breakfast turns into a long conversation.

A kitchen with cream cupboards, glass-fronted shelves, a high table and stools, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A table from above, with fresh vegetables, a cooked dish and glasses, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The materials

Les Baux limestone, lime, clay and sand on the walls, dark oak underfoot upstairs, Dordogne stone below; bathrooms in limestone with double basins; horsehair, wool and latex in the mattresses; Le Labo products in the bathrooms.

A hall with a stone staircase, an iron railing and a carved figure, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A cane-backed armchair beside pale vases and dry branches, in a patch of sunlight, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

House

Bedrooms

Bedroom 1

Up the spiral staircase, the master bedroom: 74 m² with the Alpilles in the windows, a fresco that changes with the light every morning. A bed of 200 by 200, a dressing room, and an open bathroom of 15 m² with a double basin on a top of exotic suar wood, aged brass fittings and mirrors framed in coconut fibre.

A bedroom under the roof beams, with a half-moon window and a wide bed, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A walk-in shower with stone walls, a black shower head and a glass screen, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Bedroom 2

The second master bedroom, 27 m² on the first floor, looking over the gardens and the Alpilles. A king-size bed, dark oak underfoot, and an open bathroom of 15 m² with a bathtub, a walk-in shower, a double basin and a lavatory.

A bedroom with a large bed, old wooden cupboard doors and a ceiling fan, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A freestanding bathtub against a stone wall, on a dark wooden floor, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Bedroom 3

A room of 20 m² on the first floor, looking south-west over the gardens and the Alpilles: a king-size bed, dark oak underfoot, and a bathroom of 7 m² with a walk-in shower and a separate lavatory.

A bed with white linen beside an open door onto the landing, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Bedroom 4

On the ground floor, with its door straight onto the garden and the pool: a room of 14 m² for whoever wants to be first in the water. A queen-size bed, Dordogne stone underfoot, plaster walls and old beams, and a shower room; the two ground-floor rooms share a lavatory.

A bed with white pillows under two framed line drawings and a wall lamp, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Bedroom 4 seen through an arched wooden door, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Bedroom 5

The other ground-floor room, 10 m², small and quiet: for a child, or a grandparent who would rather not take the stairs. A queen-size bed and a shower room, with the lavatory shared with the room next door.

House

Outdoors

The pool

A heated infinity pool of 15 by 5 metres, in salt water, whose edge draws a line with the rows of olives below and the cypresses against the hill. Weathered teak, old amphorae and natural stone around it; warm from May to September, and in April and October on request.

The terraces

Breakfast on the small terrace, lunch in the pool house beside the summer kitchen and its two barbecues, dinner in the shade of the roses: several tables outside, the longest for fourteen. A pétanque court, table tennis, an outdoor shower, and one hectare of garden that slips into the garrigue.

A covered outdoor kitchen with a tiled roof, a table and iron chairs, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

Breakfast laid on a table under a beamed roof, with iron chairs, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The hamlet

A handful of houses around the site of the old bread oven, at the end of a small road through the garrigue, with the cicadas for company. Facing the house, a tree grows straight out of the rock. Maussane-les-Alpilles is a few minutes away by car.

House

Wellbeing

The terraces facing the Alpilles are made for the morning session. Masseuses, yoga teachers and a personal trainer come to the house whenever you ask, with everything the session needs.

Two sun loungers beside two large old jars on a stone terrace, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The table

What the market gives

The chef preparing vegetables in the kitchen

Breakfast is laid every morning, inside or on the terrace under the roses: bread and pastries from the village, cheese, fruit in season, jams and lavender honey from the Alpilles.

The kitchen is yours, with everything a cook could want. On request Quentin, our chef, comes to cook at La Bastide de Fléchon for an evening or for the week, a cooking class is held in the kitchen, or a table is booked at a domaine nearby.

From this house

Activities

The Destet road

Walks and rides from the hamlet into the garrigue and up to the ridge; the old road to Le Destet below the house.

Hiking in the Alpilles

The ridge paths start a few minutes from the house: easy walks to the village, longer ones with a guide.

Horse riding

Rides through the olives or in the Camargue with a guide, from a stable fifteen minutes away; ponies for the children at Chabran, on request.

A shop front under a vine, baskets set out on the street

Markets and domaines

The Wednesday market at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, the domaines of Les Baux-de-Provence and the farms of the Alpilles, arranged for you.

Golf and bikes

The greens of Manville and Servanes, bikes and e-bikes delivered to the house, the lanes between the olive groves.

Yoga in the garden

A teacher comes to the house in the morning: mats on the terrace, birdsong, the house still asleep.

The market with Quentin

Quentin takes you to the market at first light, then you cook lunch together and sit down to it under the trees.

From €200 per guest.

Wildlife Safari and private visit to the salt marches

The Camargue by 4×4

Lagoons, salt marshes, white horses and black bulls from a vintage Defender, then the wild beaches of Salin-de-Giraud.

From €1,050 for the day, six per car.

White Camargue horses crossing the grass with their riders

A manade in the Camargue

A family manade opens its gates: the bulls, the horses, the gardians who work them.

Price on request.

At the wheel with Florence

Florence, who makes the candles in our houses, brings her wheels and you leave with a piece of your own.

From €150 per guest.

Private antiques shopping with artist Ruth Ribeaucourt

Antiques with Ruth Ribeaucourt

A day in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue with the artist and gallerist who finds things the way we do, then lunch in the village.

From €700 for two, half a day.

A starred chef at your table

A celebrated chef writes a menu around you and cooks it in the house, for up to ten adults.

On request.

The French table

How we lay a table in the houses, and why each thing goes where it goes: a morning’s class.

From €250 per class, from eight.

A day at sea in the Calanques

From Marseille or Cassis, a yacht and its captain for the day, a swim in every cove, lunch on board or ashore.

From €7,150 for the day, up to twelve.

The living room, sofas under hanging lanterns and tall steel windows, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A gravel pétanque court under tall pines, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The living room, a deep sofa beside an arched window, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The pool seen from above, with sun loungers, an umbrella and olive trees, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The living room, its tall windows open onto the garden, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

A narrow channel of water lined with grasses, a pool and olive trees beyond, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

The edge of an infinity pool, with olive trees and rocky hills beyond, La Bastide de Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, Alpilles

What the house holds

Amenities and services

Everything the house holds, from the infinity pool and the pool house to daily housekeeping and your house manager.

Sleeps 10

5 bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, two of them master

5 bathrooms

Outdoor shower

Guest toilets in the house and in the pool house

Heated infinity pool, 15 × 5 m, with electric shutter

Pool house with summer kitchen, gas and charcoal barbecues

Pétanque court

Table tennis

Air conditioning in every bedroom

Antique stone fireplace

Wine fridge

One hectare of garden

Wi-Fi by Starlink throughout

House manager

Daily breakfast

Daily housekeeping

Cot, high chair and baby bath

How to get here

Getting here

La Bastide de Fléchon is in the hamlet of Fléchon, Maussane-les-Alpilles, in the Alpilles Regional Natural Park. We send the exact address and directions with your confirmation.

By car

A54 motorway (Saint-Martin-de-Crau), 20 minutes
A7 motorway (Avignon Sud), 30 minutes
Parking on the property

By plane

Marseille Provence airport, 55 minutes
Private jets land at Avignon, Nîmes or Aix-en-Provence
Transfers arranged by the house

By train

Avignon TGV station, 35 minutes
Direct trains from Paris to Avignon TGV in 2 h 40

1779

1914

2019

What the market gives

Le Mas de Chabran

Le Mas de Castillone

La Santoline

Mas Brunard

Le Respelido

Mas Cagalou

La Bergerie de Calabrun

La Bastide de Fléchon

Included in your stay

What’s included

On request

A name that ties two houses

1779

1914

2019

Interiors

The living room

The kitchen and the table

The materials

Bedrooms

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Bedroom 4

Bedroom 5

Outdoors

The pool

The terraces

The hamlet

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

What the market gives

Activities

The Destet road

Hiking in the Alpilles

Horse riding

Markets and domaines

Golf and bikes

Yoga in the garden

The market with Quentin

The Camargue by 4×4

A manade in the Camargue

At the wheel with Florence

Antiques with Ruth Ribeaucourt

A starred chef at your table

The French table

A day at sea in the Calanques

Amenities and services

Getting here

By car

By plane

By train

Explore other houses

Le Mas de Chabran

Le Mas de Castillone

La Santoline

Mas Brunard

Le Respelido

Mas Cagalou

La Bergerie de Calabrun

Every week here is made to measure