Bastide de la Guillermy, 17th century residential building in Les Aygalades, Marseille, France

The Bastide de la Guillermy is a 17th-century bastide in Les Aygalades, in Marseille's 15th arrondissement. Its pale cream walls carry red tiled roofs; a tall square tower with a pointed, multicoloured tiled roof and small round windows rises on the left, and a lower wing on the right has a long red tiled roof, dark rectangular windows and a tall chimney. Arched dormers and a chimney stack sit among dense green trees.

The de Guillermy family bought the land from the poet Jean de La Ceppède and built the bastide shortly after 1689. In the 19th century it belonged to the Marseille shipowner and deputy Jean-Honoré Salavy, then passed by inheritance to Baron Fernand de Fonscolombe, born there in 1841. The state acquired it in 1957 and the gendarmerie left in 2004; a real estate agent bought it in 2019 to restore it.

The name comes from the Guillermy family, who bought the land from the poet Jean de La Ceppède to build their family home. In the 19th century the property passed to deputy Jean-Honoré Salavy, a Marseille shipowner and trader, then by inheritance to Baron Fernand de Fonscolombe, born there in 1841. Guests included Paul Barras, exiled by Napoleon I, prefect Antoine Claire Thibaudeau before his 1813 exile, and Princess Françoise d'Orléans in 1890.

The bastide stands in Les Aygalades, in Marseille's 15th arrondissement, beside the A7 autoroute, so traffic noise is constant. It is a private building and not open to visitors; it can only be seen from the outside. A real-estate agent bought it in 2019 and began restoring it.

The name comes from the Guillermy family, who bought the land from the poet Jean de La Ceppède. In 2009 the state proposed converting the empty bastide into temporary housing for Romani people; the plan was dropped after protests, and the building was put up for sale in 2011.