La Valette Boutique offers three boutique accommodation options, La Petite Valette, La Grande Valette and La Maison (the entire house), in a restored 18th-century stone house in Sanilhac-Sagriès, five minutes south of Uzès in the Gard. It is owned and run by Jan-Willem and Fleur, who are Dutch and bought the property in March 2026. Booking is direct, without platform fees. The house sits in the Occitanie region, close to the Pont du Gard, the Gardon river and Uzès.
Our story
How we found La Valette
We are not from the South of France. We live in the Netherlands, and like many Dutch people who have spent time in this part of the country, we kept returning. The Gard has a particular quality: the light, the stone, the way a Saturday morning at the Uzès market feels genuinely different from anywhere else in France. At a certain point, returning was no longer enough.
We purchased La Valette Boutique in March 2026. The house had been through an exceptional restoration by its previous owner: metre-thick limestone walls, original oak beams, vaulted alcoves, a proportioned kitchen, bathrooms that worked. What remained was to furnish it in a way that matched what the building already was: understated, honest, well-made.
La Valette Boutique marks a new chapter for this historic stone house. The months since purchase have been spent understanding it more carefully, furnishing it with intention, and continuing to discover the region that made us buy it.
The location
Why we chose Sanilhac-Sagriès
We considered staying in Uzès itself. The old town is beautiful and convenient. But after several visits, we found that staying in the centre is a different experience from what we were looking for, and from what most guests who come to this region are actually looking for.
The villages around Uzès offer genuine quiet. Not rural isolation, but the pace of a small limestone settlement not oriented around tourism. Sanilhac-Sagriès is five minutes from the Saturday market by car. It is also, at 11pm, completely silent. That combination of proximity without noise and countryside without distance is what we were trying to find.
Fifteen minutes east brings you to the Pont du Gard. Thirty minutes south to Nîmes. Forty-five minutes east to Avignon. The house sits at the centre of a triangle of some of the finest Roman heritage in France.
We have written about this in more detail: Why we chose Sanilhac-Sagriès →
The region
What keeps drawing us back
We come to the Gard for three things, and they are the same three things every time.
Gastronomy. The Saturday market on the Place aux Herbes in Uzès is one of the reasons we kept returning. A genuine producers’ market: cheese from the Cévennes, olive oil from the valley, honey, charcuterie, vegetables picked that morning.
Nature. The garrigue, a limestone scrubland of aromatic plants, starts at the edge of the village. You can walk into it in five minutes. The Gardon river, in summer, is swimmable: clear, cold, fast.
Wine. The Duché d’Uzès AOC covers the hills around the town. The appellation is young but the vignerons have been working these soils for generations. Tavel and Lirac are within half an hour.
Our favourites
Places we return to
- Place aux Herbes, Uzès: The central square with medieval arcades, five minutes from the house. On a Saturday morning during the market, one of the most genuinely beautiful public spaces in the south of France.
- Pont du Gard: Fifteen minutes from the house. The scale of it, seen from the riverbank, continues to be surprising. pontdugard.fr.
- Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie: About fifteen minutes from the house, a village built around a ceramics tradition dating to the medieval period.
- Collias: About 12 minutes from the house by car, the village on the Gardon river with the best accessible swimming. Arrive early in July and August.
- Anduze: The gateway to the Cévennes, about forty minutes from the house.
- Barjac: A small village with a weekly market that has the feel of a town not oriented around tourism.
How we host
Our approach to hosting
We are not professional hoteliers. We are two people who love this region and wanted to create conditions for others to experience it well. The house is finished to a standard we would be comfortable staying in ourselves.
We are based in the Netherlands and visit regularly. All messages are answered within twenty-four hours. For anything requiring a physical presence, we work with Conciergerie Provence & Compagnie, represented by Charlotte Casanas, who manages the house during our absences.
This is different from staying in a hotel: there is no reception desk, no fixed check-in desk and no corporate branding. You check yourself in with a keybox code sent by email, you have full privacy behind your own front door, and every room is furnished with pieces we chose ourselves rather than ordered from a supplier catalogue.
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Contact us directly
We handle all bookings directly, without platform intermediaries. No platform fees, and direct contact means we can be genuinely helpful before and during your stay.
Booking directly means no platform mark-up on your rate, a reply from Jan-Willem or Fleur themselves rather than a call centre, and direct help before and during your stay, from arrival questions to restaurant recommendations.
Email: bonjour@lavaletteboutique.com · We respond within 24 hours.
On-site: Conciergerie Provence & Compagnie (Charlotte Casanas) · +33 6 37 22 44 16
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