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Le Moulin, Oppède le Vieux, Provence
Romantic and unique Provence rental - an ancient windmill above the vineyards
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This is the perfect spot for a romantic couple of any age: a 500-year-old windmill converted into a 1-bedroom Provence lovenest, on a hill with gorgeous Luberon views, within a mile of three Luberon villages. Le Moulin is one of six exclusive small rentals on a stunning 10-acre Provence estate with shared pool, and is set well away from any other properties.
Living Room
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Downstairs in one space are the kitchen and living room. The living room has a sofa, satellite TV with English-language channels CNN and BBC World, and WiFi internet.
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The kitchen is well equipped with half-size oven and dishwasher, 4-ring cooker, fridge-freezer, toaster, and electric kettle. This beautiful round room is where the mill-stone would have turned, and this mill-stone is now the outside dining table. Above the kitchen the builder's mark shows that this windmill had the same builder as the famous windmill of Alphonse Daudet (see Letters from my Windmill).
Bedroom
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Upstairs another round room, with double bed and a bathroom with shower, basin and WC. In the walls, symmetrical and mysterious niches tell of the past life of this building, before it became this most romantic of rentals.
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Fitness & Leisure
Also on the grounds, 100 metres away, are a small fitness room and a big lounge with piano and big-screen entertainment. Breakfast of croissants and baguette can be delivered to your doorstep in the morning (15 euros per day).
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The lounge (left) and fitness room (right) are for the use of all guests.
Massages and reflexology sessions can also be organised at the house.
Garden & Pool
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The windmill is elevated above the tapestry of vines and orchards that makes up the Luberon valley, with the Luberon mountain across the way. There is outside dining (on the old millstone) in the shade of a 300-year-old oak tree, and about 100 metres away is the pool which is shared with the other rental properties that form the estate.
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The 10-acre grounds are delightful and encapsulate the best of Provence: olive trees and cypresses, lavender and iris, stunning views all around.
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The Location
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Scenes from nearby villages: Gordes, the church at Oppede le vieux, and Senanque Abbey.
The house is in the vineyards between the villages of Maubec and Oppede, and Oppede le vieux. It is under a mile to a cafe, two restaurants, three bakeries, butcher and a grocery store.
The Luberon's famous hill-top villages are all within 15 minutes: Gordes, Bonnieux, Roussillon, Lacoste, Menerbes, Goult, etc. And the towns like the antiques mecca of Isle sur la Sorgue, and Fontaine de Vaucluse, where the Sorgue river emerges fully formed from deep underground.
Within an hour are the splendid Provence cities of Avignon, Arles, St Remy, Tarascon, Orange, Aix-en-Provence, Nimes, as well as the Camargue, Marseille, and the Rhone wine trail.
If you are coming to Provence to relax rather than take everything in, there is a market every day in a different village close by. The best for local produce is the farmer's market 5 minutes away in Coustellet on Sunday mornings (April-December). And there are wineries all around where you can taste their recent offerings and buy by the bottle.
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The castle at Lourmarin, shopping in Roussillon, and a street in Goult.
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Oppède le Vieux
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Weekly Rates
| Easter | 1100 euros |
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| April - May | 1050 euros |
| June | 1100 euros |
| July - August | 1290 euros |
| September | 1100 euros |
| October | 1050 euros |
| Rest of Year | 980 euros |
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