A working farm that lets you stay in the delta.
Le Mas de Peint is not a hotel pretending to be a farm. It is a farm — a large estate in the heart of the Camargue, raising rice, black bulls and the white horses of the delta — that happens to keep thirteen rooms for guests. You wake to the work of the place: the gardians riding out, the bulls in the far fields, the flat silver light coming off the marsh.
The house itself is an eighteenth-century mas, restored with great restraint — bleached wood, white walls, copper in the kitchen. Dinner is taken at the long table, from the farm and the garden. It is quiet in a way that the coast, an hour south, has long forgotten how to be.
The land
Ride out with the gardians, or take the little pool and a book and watch the flamingos work the lagoon. The sea at Beauduc is a long sandy hour away. Read our full Camargue guide.
Getting there
The mas is twenty kilometres south of Arles, down the road to Salin-de-Giraud. Come by car; there is no other way to reach the delta. See also our Arles in a weekend.
“The Camargue without the costume. Stay two nights, ride out once, and let the delta slow you to its own pace.”
