A green trip! Five country houses … like at home

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Do you want a chateau life or a bucolic trip? Are you more of an iodized getaway, boat trips, hikes, fishing, cooking, spa or long naps in front of the fireplace? Five suggestions for spending a weekend away from home… just like at home.

Sixteen houses in the woods, in Touraine

La Beausserie, one of the houses of the Domaine de la Trigalière, in Ambillou (Touraine).

In Touraine, in Ambillou, the Domaine de la Trigalière has perhaps found the perfect balance between conviviality and splendid isolation. Its sixteen houses for 2, 4, 8 or 18 people, sometimes close to each other, sometimes solitary and hidden in the woods, have in common an immense typically Touraine forest, ponds for boating or fishing, and wildlife. worthy of Bambi.

All around the castle, the outbuildings have kept names that recall their ancient uses: the gîte Le Potager-Rempotoir was the gardener’s house, and Le Séchoir was a (very large) laundry room. Other houses have an air of Loire châteaux, such as La Maison des enfants, a 125m² gîte with typical architecture of the Tours region, ideal for a weekend or a week with the family. As the estate covers several hundred hectares, the night invites you to observe wild animals or the stars for some, to a fiesta with friends in one of the big houses for others.

Domaine de la Trigalière, 37340 Ambillou. By train, Tours 1 hour from Paris by TGV, and 30 minutes transfer. Two nights for four people from € 414 per night. Count around 90 € per person and per night for the largest lodgings. Information and reservations: 02-47-28-38-88 or [email protected]. Domainedelatrigaliere.com

An 18th century castlee near Giverny

One of the pastel-colored rooms at the Domaine de Primard, in Guainville (Eure).

Lovers of beautiful homes had seen for years a charming little castle XVIIIe on sale in the Eure. It was whispered that it was Catherine Deneuve’s country house… And then suddenly, Primard was born from this expectation: a hotel with 40 rooms and suites, an innovative spa – the first designed by the Austrian Susanne Kaufmann, founder of the cosmetics brand that bears his name – and on the plates the cuisine of multi-starred chef Eric Frechon.

Less than an hour from Paris, between Anet and Giverny, Primard is a haven of peace. The garden, designed for the great Catherine by the landscape designer Jacques Wirtz thirty years ago, with its rose garden and its farm, is only part of the domain, 40 hectares of countryside between woods and river, which invite you to stroll. The Golf Parc Robert Hersant, the castle of La Roche-Guyon and the garden of Claude Monet are very close. The promise of a great disconnection very close to the capital.

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