Port Grimaud is the outer and seaside resort of the southern French fortified town of Grimaud. The French architect François Spoerry realized this ambitious project of a town in the water in 1966. Protected against the wind from the east and the Mistral from the west, he developed the harbor town of  Port Grimaud in the bay of Saint-Tropez. The town is built on lagoons and drained...

The dreamvillage Gordes The village of Gordes  is a natural beauty that you cannot deny. It is noteworthy that Gordes, just as Roussillon, is named one of the ‘les plus beaux villages’ of France. The view on top of the hill is breath-taking, and the authentic buildings are utterly beautiful. Gordes is likely to be the most famous village in the Vaucluse ....

Saint Tropez is, quite simply, the most famous resort in Europe and it was attracting the artistic and dissolute long before Brigitte Bardot’s time. In the Forties and Fifties, the village was a summertime extension of the Parisian Left Bank: Juliette Greco, Boris Vian, Sartre and Picasso. Then Bardot appeared in ‘And God Created Women’ and this film brought a lot of...