Lou Calen

About Lou Calen

The Var village of Cotignac is a certified member of “Les Plus Beaux Villages,” and for a slice of Provençal life, you could certainly do much worse. It’s here, on two and a half acres of parkland, that you’ll find Lou Calen, a small hotel that was briefly famous in the Seventies as a haven for rock stars and the like — a boutique hotel before its time. Now it’s back, and perhaps more glorious than ever, again welcoming the sort of guests who’d rather disappear into the Var hills than walk along the promenade at Cannes. Today’s Lou Calen is luxurious, and as private as ever. Its 36 rooms and suites are divided between the main house and a hamlet-like set of outbuildings. All are architecturally distinct, and decorated in a style that combines Provençal tradition with modern and contemporary art and design. Meanwhile the Jardin Secret restaurant is joined by a more casual bistro as well as an on-site pastis-bar.

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