The mansion has stayed in the same family for more than three centuries and eight generations, and it has never stopped being a home — never a museum, never a conventional hotel. The restoration set out to preserve character rather than recreate a single historical moment: the original stone walls, timber ceilings, oak floors, fireplaces and handcrafted plasterwork were kept or brought back with traditional techniques. In the glass partition between the Grand Lounge and the Summer Lounge, a few century-old panes are still cracked from the Second World War — left exactly as they are, part of the house's story.
Life here happens in the shared rooms as much as the private ones: lounges and fireplaces, reading corners, stone courtyards and terraces, meant to be used rather than admired. A traditional hammam and jacuzzi can be opened on request. The house runs quietly and carefully — a high-efficiency pellet boiler and solar collectors for heat and hot water, its own biological wastewater system, and an 1896 stone cistern that now gathers rainwater for the gardens. It holds a Bronze Green Tourism Award.
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