Romantic self catering houses with charming courtyards and secluded roof terraces with dramatic views. In the heart of this medieval town of Agde - A colourful and busy fishing port on the river Herault. Shops, market, restaurants and cafe/bars are around the corner. 4 km from beautiful sandy beaches and golf. 5min walk from the train station. 2min walk to the Canal du Midi. Airport -10km.
Maison d'Estella is a unique house in a unique setting, grouped around a pretty courtyard filled with flowers, built for a rich merchant of Agde in 1586. Beautifully restored and furnished with French antiques. 4 comfortable bedrooms on the first and second floor -all looking out over the private courtyards, 2.5 bathrooms, sitting room, well equipped large kitchen/dining room which opens into a second interior courtyard and the house also has a rooftop terrace with dramatic views over the hills beyond the Canal du Midi.
The second house comprises the ground and first floors of a large 17th century detached house.
The accommodation consists of 3 double bedrooms (one very large with a second bed), a small sitting room, two bathrooms with bath/shower and wc, and a well equipped ground floor kitchen/dining room with its original 17th C wooden beam ceiling opening into a private walled courtyard garden. The house is fitted out with French antique furniture.
Agde - 'Black Pearl of the Mediterranean'- lies on the Cote d'or at the junction of the Canal du Midi with the sea. There are miles of sandy beaches, limitless sunshine and fishing boats still moor at the riverside quays, second oldest town of France, a maze of picturesque streets full of shops, market, restaurants and cafe bars. Yet we are only 5 mins from the vibrant resort town of Cap d'Agde which offers the usual pleasures of the Med - nightclubs, cinemas....Aqualand - the popular water theme park and the famous private naturist quarter!(though you don't come across it unless you look for it)
AGDE flies two EU blue flags for the quality of its beaches and environment.
Carcassonne : and the castles of the Cathars are an easy drive away to the west.
The dramatic gorges and caves of the stunning Haut-Languedoc national park are close inland. To the east the Camargue, the great nature reserve that's the home of white horses and black bulls. Nearby is the nature reserve of Bagnas and the beautiful lake ‘Etang de Thau’ with its oysters and mussels beds and rose-pink flamingos, also a wonderful place for boating and kite/wind-surfing.
The International Airport at Montpellier: is 30 min drive form Agde. (Other nearby airports - Carcassonne, Perpignan, Nimes and Beziers- Low fare flights by Ryanair; from LONDON & BRISTOL to Beziers-Agde airport (10km) Agde is also on the direct Eurostar line from London (St Pancras station).
Driving from Clermont Ferrand arrive to Agde via the spectacular viaduct over the Tarn gorge - Norman Foster's splendid bridge at Millau - It carries the A75 autoroute high into the clouds... and Agde is then only an hour away to the south.
