cazes-mondenard, Midi-Pyrénées, Address available on request

In the Quercy Blanc region, on the edge of the Lot department, between Cahors and Montauban, an 18th-century presbytery, its outbuilding and terraced garden. The property is located around the bend of a small country road. A hairpin driveway leads to a grassy esplanade where a wooden carport provides space to park vehicles. The path continues on foot between dry stone walls and vegetation composed of ash and oak trees. Further down, the buildings appear with their white Quercy stone walls and pink Romanesque tile roofs. The central grassy yard with a stone well covered with a tile roof, separates two constructions by a dozen metres. To the north, is the outbuilding in which a studio flat is located and to the south, is the presbytery.
Around the buildings, the gardens littered with box trees, stone staircases and flowering shrubs are an invitation to relaxation. Peace and tranquillity are palpable everywhere on the property. The meowing of a cat or the village's church bells add to the site's bucolic feel. To the west of the main dwelling, the garden forms a narrow esplanade with an almost vertiginous view over the valley, both in terms of its significant slope, which is protected by mature forests, and its grandiose panorama. At the end of this part of the garden, a gigantic lime tree releases its generous perfume, adding once again to the property's serenity. The white stone pointed walls, the arched windows protected by solid wooden shutters, give a gracious look to the building's overall understated rusticity.