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From a Sicilian masseria to a Mallorcan olive finca, a 12th-century Umbrian monastery to a Gascon hunting lodge: five working houses across the countryside of France, Italy and Spain, where milking parlours become bedrooms and centuries of wear leave a patina no decorator can fake.
If you read luxury in clean lines and pale plaster, these seven are for you: a Greek forest club, an Alentejo wine estate, a Mallorcan marès mansion and more.
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If you read a room the way others read a wardrobe, these six are for you: a Venetian palazzo, a Tuscan convent, a Formentera dune-house and more.
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If you read luxury in the single considered gesture, these seven are for you: a Puglian masseria, a Cretan hillside studio, a Naxian stone house and more.
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If you would rather sleep inside a story than a show home, these nine are for you: a Syros mansion, a Palma palazzo, an Istrian sea captain's house and more.
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