By Ven, lifestyle manager at Les Domaines de Chabran
This summer, Louis Vuitton published the 2026 edition of its City Guide to Arles, out in June in time for the Rencontres d’Arles, the summer photography festival. Turn to page 90 and you will find La Bergerie de Calabrun. The guide puts it in six words: “Privacy is the name of the game.” I could not have put it better.
What I would add
I would add the hour. Calabrun is the Provençal word for dusk, when the flocks came home to shelter under the rock, and it is still the best moment of the day here: the brazier is lit on the terrace, dinner for ten is laid outside, and the cliffs of Les Baux-de-Provence hold the last of the light. I would add the five bedrooms, one of them a room of 50 m² beneath the stone vault itself, with a copper bathtub standing in it. And I would add winter, when the indoor pool stays warm, the mistral blows outside, and the sauna is just next door.
Arles, and back to the rock
Arles is close. Spend a summer day at the Rencontres among the photographs, then come back to swim at the foot of the rocks as the light goes. Jean Cocteau knew these rocks too: in 1959, he came to film Le Testament d’Orphée among them. The guide gives the house a few lines. It deserves a week.
Ven is Liliana’s sister and the lifestyle manager of Les Domaines de Chabran. She runs the houses day to day, plans every stay with our guests, and has lived in the Alpilles for nearly six years.