Minutes from the historic centre of Cortona, a cypress-lined drive leads not to the intimate farmhouse fantasy popularised by Under the Tuscan Sun, but to a vast aristocratic residence shaped by one prominent family over several centuries.

Set above the Côte d’Azur near Valbonne, this 4-bedroom villa offered through Lazazu in one-eighth shares presents a more flexible way to own a fully managed second home in the South of France.

Bourg-en-Bresse is probably not the first place that comes to mind when searching for a château in France—and that is partly what makes this one so interesting.

While Como and Maggiore draw the crowds, Lake Orta remains the quieter insider’s choice—a smaller northern Italian lake favored by those seeking discretion, character and a slower pace.

Built and once owned by a notable Belle Époque architect, this villa sits directly on the Mediterranean at Cap d’Antibes, the wooded peninsula between Cannes and Nice and one of the French Riviera’s most tightly held residential enclaves.

On the market for the first time in over 200 years, Lake Delaware Farm dates to 1787, when Gertrude Livingston and Revolutionary War general Morgan Lewis built it while the Catskills were still largely untamed, densely forested, and home to Native American tribes.

A rare multi-structure coastal compound in Corfu, Heliophos Estate trades a single villa for an entire private bay experience shaped by landscape, privacy, and uninterrupted sunset-facing sea views.

For decades, French-born creative director Marc Atlan has helped shape the visual worlds of Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang, Tom Ford and Yves Saint Laurent. His own Los Angeles home was approached with the same attention to atmosphere and detail: a landmark 1923 Mediterranean Revival in historic Lafayette Square.

Built in 1999 as one man's vision of the Old West, Rancho Alegre was later bought by another lifelong Western enthusiast who had grown up in Germany watching cowboy films and dreaming of life in the American West. Decades apart, the two men shaped the same extraordinary ranch outside Santa Fe.

A 1925 English manor built as a full-scale showcase for oak construction at the British Empire Exhibition was later taken apart piece by piece, moved to Devon and rebuilt on a hillside above Salcombe. Today, Falconers stands in seven acres of gardens believed to have been designed by Gertrude Jekyll.