This spacious villa, with its separate self-contained apartment is set in its own walled and private enclosure of 4000 sq meters. The garden is mature with an automatic irrigation system and mature trees, including several species of fruit trees and carefully tended flower beds and hanging baskets together with an organic vegetable garden. The produce of the latter is at your disposal for the duration of your stay. The villa is also eco-friendly with solar-heated hot water, solar-heated . indoor salt-water pool and electricity generated by a state of the art solar panel array An outdoor solar-heated shower is also included. A flower bedecked gazebo allows for shaded outdoor dining/snoozing in the hot summer days and warm evenings. You can also take in the rays by lazing or snoozing in the hammocks and/or loungers in the garden or patio. The pool offers the possibility to relax at a poolside controlled temperature environment or swim in a salt-water 30 to 35 degrees crystalline pool. The villa and apartment is of recent construction and contains heating/air conditioning The villa and apartment are suitable for two families and while having lockable interconnecting doors, still offer full privacy. Getting here: The nearest airport is Beziers (20 mins) followed by Perpignan (45 min), Carcassonne (50 min) and Montpellier (1 hour). Gerona in Spain, where car rental is significantly cheaper than in France is another option and has the best connections involving Ryanair. Gerona is two hours from Narbonne. Trains leave Narbonne to Carcassonne, Toulouse, Perpignan, Barcelona and Montpellier and on to Paris For a visit picturesque to villages like Capestang, La Grasse, Fontfroide and the Cathar Castles a car is advised The village and its facilities: Cuxac d’Aude has just over 2000 inhabitants. There are two bar serving meals and carry out pizzas, a pizzeria, a baker's shop, a grocer's shop, a supermarket, a pharmacy, a tobacconist/newsagent, a medical centre with doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and a dental service. Narbonne, 12 Km has a big food market every morning and a wide choice of supermarkets. Capestang, 8 km away has two supermarkets. There are restaurants in all the surrounding villages including Capestang on the banks of the Midi Canal, and Montady, and a wide choice in Narbonne. There are many lovely walks around the village, and by bike to meander through the country lanes in the vineyards.