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The Château Lafoux is in the heart of Provence, near the foot of the Sainte-Baume mountain ridge. It is an estate rich in history. The original Via Aurelia, a road connecting Rome to Provence, crosses the property, and Roman forts and a Roman villa called Vallem Bosonis were its first buildings. The estate is mentioned in a manuscript dating to 1019, when the abbot from Saint Victor Abbey in Marseilles came to consecrate the Saint Esteve church in Tourves and Château Lafoux provided wine for the ceremony. The hilly domaine is topped with white oak forests. Many stone terraces have been built over the last centuries. Surrounded by a park planted with majestic cedars, the "bastide," or Provence-style château, is an example of a typical 18th-century residence. A statue of John the Baptist is nestled in the bastide tower's five-foot-thick stone wall. |