Set above the Somme River near Abbeville (1h40 from Paris), this 18th-century pink-brick residence is positioned atop a series of terraces with century-old greenhouses—each nearly 100 metres (328 feet) long—among the largest in private ownership in France.

Perched 300 metres (984 feet) above the Adriatic in the protected hamlet of Gornja Lastva, this restored 19th-century estate looks across olive groves and forested slopes to the Bay of Kotor, one of Europe’s most dramatic natural harbors.

Hidden behind stone walls just three blocks from the Jardín and the Parroquia, the property embodies the old-world magic of San Miguel de Allende’s historic center. In the heart of Mexico, the city’s preserved colonial architecture offers an experience entirely different from the country’s beach resorts.

The late, influential art-world power broker Barbara Gladstone’s Gilded Age waterfront retreat — one of the last intact turn-of-the-century shingle “summer cottages” on Long Island’s North Fork — is for sale for $12 million

Lake Como has long ranked among the most prestigious real estate markets in the world, defined by its grand waterfront properties—yet there are few comparable to the scale of this restored 19th century silk mill in Brienno.

This corner of the Vexin Normand is a gateway between Paris and Normandy — close enough for an easy city commute, yet surrounded by cobbled towns and countryside. 

In the hills outside Lucca, one of Tuscany’s grand historic estates has returned to the market with provenance few properties can match, acquired in 1836 by Caroline Bonaparte—Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sister and Queen Consort of Naples.

The property offers both scale and charming setting in a region gaining international attention for its wines and landscapes.

Built for Louise Grace—daughter of NYC’s two-time mayor and shipping magnate William R. Grace—this stuccoed Renaissance Revival cottage is a rare surviving example of an early American summer estate, set on 3,570 feet of private Maine shoreline.

Within days of listing, a stone estate in Igny (Haute-Saône) built in 1848 went under preliminary contract at the full asking price.