Fontenille Collection was founded in 2016 by Frédéric Biousse and Guillaume Foucher, beginning with a Provençal bastide in the Luberon. It now holds fourteen houses across France, Menorca and Tuscany, each restored in its own region and run as a family home rather than a hotel.
In 2023 it became the first French hotel group to take société à mission status, binding it to its environmental and social commitments. Every French house holds Green Key certification, renovations follow BREEAM standards, and several estates farm their own vines and kitchen gardens. The collection writes its own line as Timeless Homes, Lasting Memories.
14 hotels
The hotels
- Domaine de FontenilleLauris · Member of Relais & ChâteauxThe founding house of the collection, a Provençal bastide among forty hectares of organic vines.
- La Bastide du MourreOppèdeA 17th-century hamlet near Oppède, run as a quiet retreat for walking, yoga and long dinners.
- Domaine de ChalamonSaint-Rémy-de-ProvenceAn 18th-century bastide in the Alpilles, behind six gardens sculpted by Dominique Lafourcade.
- The Great CarmesAix-en-ProvenceOpening early 2027A historic property in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, opening in early 2027.
- Les Bords de MerMarseille · Member of Green KeyNineteen sea-facing rooms in a 1930s modernist building on the Corniche in Marseille.
- Château de CîteauxMeursaultA 19th-century château above 12th-century Cistercian cellars, in the vineyards of Meursault.
- Domaine de PrimardGuainville · Member of Relais & ChâteauxAn 18th-century house on the Eure, an hour from Paris, inside a garden thirty years in the making.
- Les Hortensias du LacHossegor · Member of Green KeyAn Art Deco house on the Hossegor lake, two hundred metres from the Atlantic.
- 70 Hectares… & the OceanSeignosseA timber house in the Landes pines, above the Seignosse golf course and near the ocean.
- Les BassansPerros-GuirecTwenty-five sea-facing rooms in a former manor above Trestignel beach, on the Pink Granite Coast.
- Les Hautes MersÎle d'YeuAn ocean-front house on the Île d'Yeu, a thirty-minute crossing from the mainland.
- Santa PonsaAlaior, MenorcaA 17th-century Menorcan palace with terraced gardens, in a green valley above Alaior.
- Torre VellaAlaior, Menorca · Member of Relais & ChâteauxA sandstone finca facing the Mediterranean, among olive groves and vines ten minutes from Mahón.
- Pieve AldinaRadda in Chianti · Member of Relais & ChâteauxA 12th-century hamlet on the Chianti wine road, halfway between Florence and Siena.
