Tourrettes hotels collection

Alexandre Fabre spent long years in Russia laying out roads for the Tsar; back in Tourrettes, he built the Château du Puy on the neighbouring hill, meant as a likeness of the cadet school in St Petersburg. The village itself stayed Provençal: limestone, curved tile, sloping lanes and a wash house. Fayence faces it from its own hilltop. In the afternoon, when the ground warms, gliders from the airfield circle soundlessly over the roofs.