Maison Marie Elise is a carefully renovated, spacious house decorated in a mix of modern furniture and pieces of the classic catalan style. It sits in a tiny road that looks almost medival, here at the botom of the old village of Marquixanes. Marquixanes? Is an old small town surrounded by vineyards, peach trees and apricot-orchards. Opening the wooden front door of Maison Marie Elise one steps into a holiday home which is a hide away and retreat. Two bedrooms, an open livng room (without doors) equipped with a state of the art sleeping couch and TV/SAT/DVD, a seperate room with a stunning fire place where one can lounge on the heavy leather sofa, a big, very well equipped kitchen and a large bathroom with both tub and shower – this is Maison Marie Elise. When you walk over the wooden and stone floor you will emediately feel at home. Leaving the sofa at the open fire one steps out onto the terrace towards the garden. Swallows are nesting in the house at the end of the garden, you can watch them form the stone benches, that were built by one of the towns artisans.

The house is equipped with linen and towels, the heating expanses are all covered by the rent. Need a parking lot? There is one just on the other side of the road. Maison Marie Elise is close to the N116 state road. But due to speed limits and traffic islands there is hardly any sound, sitting in our kitchen, you might here a whisper, the rest of house is calm. We would like to mention that the house has NO WLAN. But the house will offer you something else: Time. Rest. Repose. And the feeling of being at home for some weeks in one of the prettiest valleys oft he Pyrenees. Bienvenue.

If you drive 40 Minutes by car, you will reach the city of Perpignan and several beaches on the mediterranean coast. Or you head in the opposite direction – to discover the rough mountainwold of the Pyrenees. Shopping: 30 yards away there is a small shop selling baguettes and croissants and some oft the basics. In the summer there is a fruit vendor aswell and a wine cooperative. Our you drive to Prades, a village five minutes away by car. There is a coop seeling whole food products from the farmers of the neighborhood. There is a huge out door market on Tuesdays and a whole food market on Saturdays. None the less close to Prades Center there is a big, modern supermarket too for all your daily needs. A cinema, a post office, and some wonderful cafés overshadowd by trees and several restaurants. Outdoor activities: the lake of the town of Vinca, endless hiking routes, thermal baths, pittoresque villages, the train Jaune, nice bars and restaurants, great beaches, old fortresses of the Cathar, Horse riding, canyoning, fishing, surfing, mountainbiking, mountainclimbing, or you take your kids and go to one o the adventure parks (tree hiking park Tet Adventure, Kap’oupa Kap...)