Michèle and Julio didn't set out to create a hospitality business. They set out to preserve something. The farmhouse had been in Julio's family since the 1880s — built by hand from the same stone that lines the valley walls, added to over generations, never quite finished.
The restoration took four years. Michèle, who trained as an architect in Lyon, insisted that nothing be invented. Every decision — the ceramic tilework, the courtyard fountain, the vaulted breakfast room — is a reference to what was already there.
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