St Tropez II
As I mentioned before, the St Tropez area is very popular! Here we have a lovely, modern style villa, again in St Tropez. Soon to be sold by my colleage Pia Frei, out of the RHF office on the Place Celli in the center of Saint Tropez. And not only our clients love it there! I am very fond of St Trop also, we sail there a lot and are looking forward to the “Voiles de Saint Tropez” in October - a big prestigeous, international regatta, with a lot of fun on the glamorous “land” as well! Sailing and then partying with colleagues and celebrities, who wouldn’t like that….
This is a pic of an earlier Voiles de St Tropez… I’ll keep you “posted”
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The coming posts will all be about villa’s in (the neighbourhood of) St Tropez! This trendy, vibrant area is very popular all of a sudden with 
It has a terrific seaview
The town “Villefranche” dates back to 130 BC. It was officially established by Charles II, Duke of Anjou, in 1295, to protect the coastline from pirate attacks. 
The Citadelle, the venue where “my” Salon took place, was created to defend the port and the coastline even better, by the duke of Savoy. The construction started in 1566, based on and using a quite new defense system that integrated innovations of artillery and the use of gunpowder… It is trapeze shaped, the long sides along the sea, a deep canal around it and you need to cross a bridge to enter.
Our agent Jeroen Zaat (the best there is for prestige properties!) has a luxury villa in his portfolio that he would like to highlight because of its many fabulous characteristics:
- The villa itself has a huge living room with fireplace and office corner, opening to the terraces.
- Large heated swimming pool of 16×6m with electric cover, surrounded by large terraces
- A summer kitchen and a fitness room.
Castelleras is a small village close to Valbonne and neighbouring Mouans Sartoux. When I saw the chateau de Castelleras for the first time, I thought it was a very old building, upgraded and changed through the ages, but as it turns out, it was (re-)constructed within a year - and not so very long ago: in 1927! 
It is built by the famous french architect, visionary and ecologist Couëlle (RHF has very exclusive villa’s that he designed in their portfolio). Couëlle, who at the time was only 26 years old- used the knowledge that he had gathered, while saving and reconstructing 12th, 15th and 16th century chateaux in the Provence and the Pyrenees from their ruins…
The Chateau de Castelleras is now mainly used for weddings and receptions. And as you can see from the pictures, it is another great spot with that fabulous athmosphere, style and class that you can only find here, in the South of France…
The old centre of Biot is super. A very romantic, friendly French village, with tiny streets that are made attractive with plants and flowers everywhere.
I have lived there myself for a couple of years and I loved it! Hence all the paintings - I couldn’t stop (and must admit I made many more… Biot has a museum and lots of art and crafts galleries, great restaurants, a wonderful old factory where glassware as well as art objects are made by hand. It is close to the sea - walking distance - I used to walk to the beach quite often in the summer (ok - almost an hour - and there’s a bus too.)
Tomorrow Riviera Home Finders has another sales contract signed, sealed and delivered! Again it was our top-agent Jeroen Zaat who did the deal. The new owner as well as the seller will recieve an aquarelle - the one above painted on a piece of hand made, super rough-grain paper.
The view is wonderful: over the woods right down to the mediterranean…
