This rustic 500 year old stone home in Valros, France, a compact town of 1,000 near the Mediterranean coast surrounded by miles of vineyards, offers five (5) bedrooms, fireplace, remodeled kitchen, and garage. Enjoy walking, jogging and biking across the countryside. Valros is conveniently situated with easy access to Mediterranean beaches, the Black Mountains, great wine country, and a major coast road to the Pyrenees and Spain in one direction and to Provence in the other! The house has three stories and can accommodate nine people with plenty of elbow room.

Get your group of friends together because your next stop should be Valros, France!

DETAILS OF ACCOMMODATION

The most architecturally interesting parts of this large stone house date back to the 15th century, late Medieval, early Renaissance. The vaulted ceilings in the living room and a massive fireplace with carved Latin inscription recall an earlier life as the kitchen for an inn or monastery. In World War Two, the same room served as a town bomb shelter (never needed). The house is one block deep. At the rear, the avenue de St-Thibéry provides room for parking. Through the front door, you step immediately onto the tiny rue du Portail ("street of the portal"), which curves through the oldest part of Valros. The house is part of a row of buildings that follow the old town ramparts.

The house accommodates 9 people on three floors in large comfortable rooms. On the ground floor there is a dining room, with exposed stone walls and beams, a remodeled kitchen, with fridge/freezer, cooker, and washing machine; and a very large living room with vaulted stone ceilings, and an immense working fireplace - the room is furnished with lots of comfortable seating and is well lighted for reading. Outside there is an open two level area for alfresco dining and relaxing.

On the first floor there are four (4)bedrooms: 2 double bedrooms, 1 single bedroom, and a bedroom with 2 single beds with en-suite bathroom with shower and WC. There is also a separate bathroom with shower and WC.

On the top floor there is a bedroom with a queen sized bed with shower and WC, as well as a large and very private terrace.

Amenities

A large library of English-language fiction and non-fiction books, including lots of regional travel books and maps. A cassette tape and compact disc player as well as an eclectic musical library, featuring dozens of tapes and CDs ranging from Mozart to Edith Piaf to Blues great Buddy Guy. There is a TV and multi-format videocassette player with an extensive library of films-on-video including recent box office hits and titles hand-picked from the American Film Institute's Top 100 list. A kitchen already stocked with necessities like salt and pepper (in many rentals the cupboards are bare when you arrive) and well equipped with pots, pans, dishes and utensils. There is a telephone for free local calls. Bicycles are available as are board games.

VALROS AND SURROUNDING AREA

Valros is a pretty town of 1,000 souls surrounded by miles of vineyards, it is wonderful walking, jogging, and biking country, except for church bells and the occasional motorbike (the French teenagers basic transportation).

Nearby Pezenas was once the center of French culture when the King came south and Molière played in one of the theatres, is now full of antique stores, bookstores, restaurants, shops, as well as a large market, and supermarket.

In another direction - the Mediterranean is 20 minutes away, with fishing villages of Sete, Marseillan, Meze, providing a host of fish restaurants, and beaches from Cap d'Agde to Sete are seemingly inexhaustible.

The close access to the autoroute provides access to sights further afield such as Spain with the Dali museum in Figueras, or the cosmopolitan delights of museums and nightlife at Montpellier

ACCESS

Valros is within easy driving distance of International airports - Montpellier (30 mins), Carcassonne (75 mins), Toulouse (2 and a half hours) and Barcelona (3.5 hours). There are railway stations at Beziers (30 mins) and Montpellier (30 mins) with TGV connections to Paris.