Follow the stars to find peace in Provence

Taste the brand Beckham lifestyle with a great-value bolt hole in historic, rural Var just 30 minutes from ‘St Trop’.
Cathy Hawker18 February 2016

Celebrities and the South of France go together like summer and a chilled glass of rosé, but for the super-cool, get-away-from-it-all class, west is best. Just 30 minutes from St Tropez but a million miles from its high-wattage razzmatazz — welcome to the Var.

Trendsetters: ex-England soccer star David Beckham and his fashion designer wife Victoria launched the A-list love affair with the Var, buying a sprawling mansion in the medieval hill village of Bargemon in 2003. Images: Alamy (left); Rex (right)
GREAT-VALUE PROJECTS
£464,500: Oscar winner Helen Mirren is selling her traditional stone farmhouse set in beautiful, expansive grounds and surrounded by olive trees and vines in the Var region of Provence. Image: Rex (right)
PERFECT TIME TO BUY
LONDONERS’ GETAWAY
Impeccable: at La Bergerie, owners Laura and David Rich-Jones created a colonnaded barbecue dining room for guests — welcome shelter on scorching Provençal summer days

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