Paris Match just slipped La Bastide de Saint-Tropez into its little black book. Makes sense. Ten minutes on foot from the port, tucked into a garden where exotic plants grow wild, this Relais & Châteaux address has perfected the art of refuge.
Four Provençal farmhouses circle an elegant bastide. Twenty-six suites and rooms, a heated pool, a Holidermie spa. Everything designed to make you feel like a guest, not a customer. The Pariente family, who fell for the place years ago, keep a watchful eye.
At table, Lucas Binaschi serves northern Italian cooking: fresh pasta, unmissable antipasti, generous mains. A two-voice Mediterranean, somewhere between Liguria and Provence. Fresh produce, rigour, no fuss.
Except. La Bastide closes its doors October 26, 2025 for its winter pause and won't reopen until April 30, 2026. A deliberate choice: let the team breathe, prep the season, avoid the empty-palace syndrome. Very Tropezian.
While others compete with lights and chrome, La Bastide prefers the shade of a lemon tree and the whisper of a fountain. Paris Match noticed. So did we.
