La Cavalerie, the Ungaro family’s Provençal estate in the Luberon. Restored by the couturier Emanuel Ungaro, now passed on to his daughter Cosima. Two houses, eleven bedrooms, sixty-five hectares of olive trees. Available for private hire for twenty-two guests.
La Cavalerie is, above all, a family story. Emanuel Ungaro restored this corner of Provence as his private retreat; today, his daughter Cosima and her husband Austin Feilders continue that very same legacy.
Sixty-five hectares of olive trees and forest, a hidden valley, two houses—La Commanderie and La Bergerie—eleven rooms, two freshwater swimming pools, a listening room, an open-air wellness area, and a chef, Bernardo Costantino, overseeing the table. Twenty-two guests at most, and the entire estate to oneself. All around lies a UNESCO-classified biosphere reserve; Aix and Marseille are forty minutes away, with Arles just a little further.
I could try to remain detached. But this is exactly the kind of place for which Merka exists: you arrive as a visitor, and you leave wondering why you live any other way the rest of the year.
