Waking up in a 'palazzo'

It is indeed a strange feeling to set up camp in 200 square meters of museum-like grounds. The apartment where I'm spending the week in Provence with my family  is not the usual 'location de vacance'. Built in 1883 by the architect Pierre Aublé, the Villa Notre-Dame, dominating the old harbour of St Raphael, first belonged to the Russian prince Bariatin…