The Drôme isn’t just a region of lavender fields and truffles — it’s also a place where you can sleep incredibly well. From a village hotel with a Michelin star to a 5-star château with its own spa: I rounded up the most beautiful, most luxurious addresses to fully spoil yourself.

The Drôme is known for its lavender fields, and at L’Essentiel de Lavande I dive right into it. I photograph my way between the rows, learn everything about the plant, make my own balm, and taste lavender lemonade with lavender cookies. You can even sleep among the lavender fields. In short: come along to this little lavender paradise in the Drôme.

Nyons is a town in the Drôme Provençale, known for its olives and olive oil and its market. But there’s more to do than just browsing the stalls: think a centuries-old bridge, the last scourtin factory in France, and getting hands-on with olive oil yourself.

The Drôme is full of picturesque villages, but only a handful of them officially get to call themselves one of the most beautiful villages in France. I visited three: Mirmande, La Garde-Adhémar, and Grignan.

For 33 years, a mailman with zero training in art or architecture builds his palace, undisturbed, in his own backyard. At night, by the light of an oil lamp. A madman? Or a genius? More than a hundred years later, you can still admire his life’s work in Hauterives.