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Located above Lake Mouriscot in Biarritz, Villa Magnan is what we like to call a pension de famille. The property is composed of several guesthouses. As for the main Villa, it remains private and not accessible to guests. The location will offer you a quiet stay, surrounded by nature and our animals, while being able to go quickly to the beach or to center town. We recommend that residents have a car to enjoy the surrounding areas and get around more easily. During your stay we will offer you a guide with our favourite addresses. The breakfast, included in the room rate, will be served in the company of all residents on the terrace of the kitchen, dining room of the Villa or Orangery, between 9 and 11 am. We work with local producers and products, and our cooks prepare a sweet and savoury buffet every morning. Please note that the rooms are not intended for cooking and there is no access to the Villa's kitchen.
«Breakfast is served in the Villa’s large kitchen, Orangerie, or on the terrace. It is served from 9am until 11am. The residents arrive, one after the other, and gather around the same large table. Usually our cook is already cooking a thousand and one good dishes or cakes. So it smells good, like in a real house. We have a turntable and vinyl records in the kitchen and we play whatever we want. We can dance sometimes. It’s quite cheerful. We talk a lot, about everything and nothing, like in a real family. Those who are wilder, have 3 hectares to escape. In general, all the animals are present in the park». Written by Claire Dhouailly for Le Monde magazine
"In 2017, Anne and Jérôme Israel, a former film set designer and director of photography, bought the property from one of the grandsons of the original owners, the Marquis de Casa Riera and his wife, Blanca de Aragón y Carrillo de Albornoz (the parents of the late Queen of the Belgians, Fabiola), who had taken refuge there in the early 1930s when the Spanish monarchy fell and the Republic was proclaimed." Written by Claire Dhouailly, for Le Monde magazine.
"How would you describe the atmosphere at Villa Magnan?
It's a bit like a daydream. I think there's something magical, generous and grand about this place. I think you feel good here, and the size and calmness make you want to stay. It's a very inspiring place, I think, at least that's what people who have been here say,they leave inspired." Anne Israel for Vogue, Written by Jade Simon
"A Proust’s madeleine. In 2017, when, behind this monumental gate, Anne and Jérôme Israel discovered the Villa Magnan buried under the brambles, in the shade of hundred-year-old trees, as the luckiest people sometimes discover a treasure in their lives, everything seemed to be hidden and yet everything was there. The sun was trying to make its way through the wild vegetation and the wooden shutters blocked at half height. She was a film set designer, he a cinematographer. Together, they had built an unusual family life in an old factory in Montreuil, and dreamed of writing a new, completely dierent story. And so, after eighty years in the arms of Morpheus, the beauty woke up gently, and life resumed its course in its so harmonious volumes, as if nothing had happened, with the same magic" Written by Sophie Pinet, for AD Magazine
«Breakfast is served in the Villa’s large kitchen, Orangerie, or on the terrace. It is served from 9am until 11am. The residents arrive, one after the other, and gather around the same large table. Usually our cook is already cooking a thousand and one good dishes or cakes. So it smells good, like in a real house. We have a turntable and vinyl records in the kitchen and we play whatever we want. We can dance sometimes. It’s quite cheerful. We talk a lot, about everything and nothing, like in a real family. Those who are wilder, have 3 hectares to escape. In general, all the animals are present in the park». Written by Claire Dhouailly for Le Monde magazine
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