The Top 10 Hotels Near Azteca
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Mexican folk art hangs in the lobby of a French Alpine hotel, which tells you most of what you need to know about Barcelonnette's odd and endearing history of emigration to Mexico. Azteca leans into that story hard, with decorative pieces throughout the common areas and a handful of themed rooms alongside simpler contemporary ones. The older wing has more atmosphere. Breakfast is an event, and they do afternoon tea too.
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A Michelin-starred country inn tucked into Mercantour National Park, where the summer terrace looks straight up at the peaks and winter dinner happens under timber rafters beside a fire. The chef grows much of what he cooks, makes his own pasta, bread, cured meat, and ice cream, and runs a daily carte blanche menu built around whatever is ready. The wine list leans natural, the service leans cheerful, and there are snug guestrooms if leaving feels like the wrong idea.
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Five rooms in a mountain village inn at the foot of Mercantour National Park, each with a private terrace and views that make you forget you packed a laptop. The team spent over a year reviving a building that had been empty for decades, furnishing it in vintage and custom pieces. The kitchen, which holds a Michelin star, runs a daily-changing menu built around local producers and the inn's own permaculture gardens.
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A former post house tucked into the lavender fields and mountain peaks of Haute Provence, La Bonne Étape is the kind of small, classic Provençal hotel that makes you feel tired just thinking about leaving. Rooms lean traditional with the occasional modern chair thrown in to keep things honest, and the better suites have terraces overlooking serious gardens. The restaurant holding a Michelin star is, by most accounts, the real reason to book a room.
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A stone farmhouse set in a lavender field at the foot of dramatic limestone cliffs, this thirteen-room inn in the Alpes de Haute Provence was Alain Ducasse's private country retreat before it became a hotel. The kitchen draws from an onsite garden tended by a dedicated gardener, and eating on the terrace with Provençal hills spread out ahead of you puts gilded dining rooms in a certain perspective. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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Perched above one of France's great natural canyons, this hotel and spa in La Palud sur Verdon gives every room a balcony or terrace so the gorge is never far from sight. Rooms run modern, each in its own color scheme, and the Cinq Mondes spa adds an indoor and outdoor pool for days when the view feels like enough. The restaurant leans gourmet and frames the Haute-Provence landscape like it planned the whole thing.