A 220-m² flat and its private garden, in a gated commonhold property with a swimming pool and tennis court, five minutes from downtown Aix-en-Provence
A 220-m² flat and its private garden, in a gated commonhold property with a swimming pool and tennis court, five minutes from downtown Aix-en-Provence.
In the Bouches-du-Rhône department, 25 minutes from the Marseille-Provence airport and 20 minutes from the Aix-en-Provence high-speed rail station, the flat is only five minutes from Aix's historic downtown area. Located in the neighbourhood near the hospital, it combines all the assets of the downtown area with an elevated position providing wide views of the surrounding rooftops and landscape.
As the historical capital of Provence since its founding in 122 BCE by a Roman consul, Aix's population reached nearly 150,000 in 2020, while, thanks to its rich and fertile history, it has been able to preserve a vast cultural heritage, such as the Cours Mirabeau, Paul Cézanne's atelier as well as Saint-Sauveur Cathedral. In addition, its urban area, heavily influenced by a dynamic cultural and academic lifestyle, is located within a breath-taking natural environment, between the sea and mountains, under the benevolent shadow of Mont Saint-Victoire.
In the northern part of the city, the neighbourhood near the hospital is only a few steps from Aix's historical downtown area. From here, the main motorways are all easily accessible, while the peace and quiet of this residential environment is combined with the unobstructed views of the city's bell towers and, further on, the famous Pilon du Roi ("King's Drumstick"), part of the Etoile mountain range. As for the flat, it is located in the commonhold property's sole four-storey building, including a garden level, constructed in the 1990s with a flat, lined roof, stone cladding and patios facing south and east, which are, in turn, surrounded by verdant grounds of nearly 9,000 m².
In addition, at the entrance to the property, a plaster-coated caretaker's cottage is topped with a traditional flat tile gable roof and, below, a path provides access to a tennis court and a swimming pool, as well as private parking spaces. Extending on from here, the shared garden is mostly shaded thanks to many tall trees, such as pines and horse chestnuts, olives and palm trees and features a verdant space for visitor parking, while the ground floor flat is accessible either directly from the garden via a private path from the swimming pool or from the entrance hall itself.
The FlatOnce past the double door entrance, which provides plunging views of the flat's living areas, highlighted by the dazzling Provencal light and soaring floor-to-ceiling heights, its overall and sumptuous atmosphere becomes immediately apparent: floor-to-ceiling moulded wood panelling, painted in light-colour tones, matches perfectly with its doors designed in the same style, while gleaming beige floor tiles extend the feeling of overall light and warmth.
On one side of the entrance hall, a small, inconspicuous door gives on to a lavatory, another one opens on to a kitchen, while the living area itself is made up of central living room, which communicates with a large library on one side and the kitchen on the other. All accessible from a dual-aspect conservatory, extended by the main patio, which provides unobstructed views of the surrounding landscape, these spaces feature wide, aluminium-framed sliding glass doors that bathe the conservatory in abundant sunlight, wood panelling, beige tiles matching those in the entrance hall and built-in wooden cupboards that ensure the flat's overall decorative unity.
In addition, from the library, a hallway leads to two bedrooms looking out, thanks to wide picture windows, over the western-facing garden. Decorated with hardwood floors and beige-tinted walls, each of these rooms includes moulded wooden cupboards and their own shower rooms, renovated in the same light-colour tones and highlighted by moulded woodwork ...
