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A Home Away From Home europeforvisitors.com
Tips on renting a European vacation home, including points that you need to clarify at the outset (such as whether linens are included). Includes photos of an apartment that my family and I rented in Venice.

Agencies

Barclay International Group
This company has offices in New York and London. It offers apartment and house rentals in a dozen European countries.

ClassicVacationRentals.com
Rent a villa, chalet, castle, cottage, or apartment in England, France, or Italy. Properties tend to be upmarket, though there are some bargains among the listings.

ECEAT
The European Centre for Eco Agro Tourism publishes directories of "green" farm vacations in the Netherlands and 21 other European countries. Online listings will be available soon.

Escapade
Book a hotel room or a vacation rental in Andorra, France, or Spain.

European Escapes
Choose from more than 4,000 resort and city properties in 13 European countries. You can subscribe to a monthly newsletter that lists special rental deals.

France Direct
Click the "Regions A-L" or "Regions L-Z" link for listings of self-catering gites, villas, châteaux, and apartments.

French Connections
Holiday quarters of every kind, including gîtes and ski accommodations, are on tap for visitors to France.

Gites in France
Rent or buy anything from a château to a mobile home. In addition to the Lets/Rentals page, the site has tourist information and maps.

Holiday Cottages Group
This long-established British firm handles more than 12,000 properties in England, Ireland, Scotland, and France. Prices are displayed in a choice of currencies, and you can charge the rental to your credit card.

Holiday Housing (Mitwohnzentrale)
Helga Gross focuses on Venice and the Veneto region, but her Italian partners can put you up in Florence or Rome. See my article on her services.

The Manor Houses of Portugal
Stay at a high-quality B&B in town, a quinta in the countryside, or one of 200+ cottages and villas in Northern Portugal and the Algarve.

RentVillas.com
This California-based firm rents properties in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Great Britain.  Use the "Villa Wizard" to find a house or apartment that meets your specific needs.

Self-Catering in Scandinavia
Rent a cottage or apartment in Norway or Sweden. (This site also lists a few properties in Denmark).

Tuscany.net
Rent a castle, villa, or palazzo in Italy. Hotels are also listed here.

Vacanca
Choose from more than 500 vacation rentals in 20 countries. Pick a country, then click the links for detailed descriptions with photos.

Individual Properties

Casale Villarena
These four apartments in a converted farmhouse are on the Southern coast of Italy's Sorrentine Peninsula, between Capri and Positano.

Chez Tim
Chinon, France (in the Loire Valley, 45 minutes from Tours) is the location of this renovated 200-year-old house with a garden and swimming pool. The house can be rented by the week, month, semester, or year.

Spanish Sun
Golfers are likely to go for "Spanish Sun," a three-bedroom apartment overlooking the first fairway of the Westin La Quinta Golf Resort in Marbella on the Costa del Sol.

Farm Stays

Agrisport Agriturismo
Click the Union Jack for English-language information on farmhouse accommodation in Italy, other European countries, and the world.

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