Camellas-Lloret

Four bedrooms and a garden apartment tucked into a medieval village in the Malepère hills, this is the kind of small guesthouse that makes you feel like you have a friend with taste and a spare room in the south of France. Handmade mattresses, Aesop in the bathrooms, and a conservatory with a communal table where guests actually talk to each other. Carcassonne's citadel is a short drive away for when the fire and the bookshelves stop being enough.