{"product_id":"villa-fayoum","title":"Villa Fayoum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFayoum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFayoum is the oasis Cairo can reach before lunch, and Tunis is the village at its heart — clay-built, mural-painted, and given over almost entirely to pottery since the Swiss artist Evelyne Porret settled here in the late 1980s and started a school. Villa Fayoum sits in the middle of it, in six thousand square metres of garden above Lake Qarun. The house was already there, with good bones and a former owner's carved motifs and coloured glass worth keeping; Florian Amereller restored it with traditional materials and salvaged craftwork, and Zeina Aboukheir — who made Al Moudira — dressed the interiors in her usual layered manner of vintage textile, antique and art. Twelve suites, brass and wrought iron, glazed tile, stained glass, embroidered silk. Mature palms shade a sixteen-metre pool of golden granite and Sinai marble. Gioconda Scott, of the Moudira Farm Kitchen, wrote the menus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA house rather than a hotel, an hour or two from Cairo, and a village that is the reason to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is small, and it can be taken whole. Twelve suites. Exclusive use is realistic for a family, a milestone or a creative retreat — and equally, someone else's party can fill it on your dates. We check the diary before quoting and again before confirming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe village is the itinerary. Tunis holds more than twenty-five pottery workshops and galleries along its main street, alongside Mohamed Abla's Fayoum Art Centre. Guests of the villa have particular access to the Fayoum Pottery School itself, including time at the wheel. Come expecting to carry something home, and leave space in the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nile Concierge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54022813614363,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/7965\/3147\/files\/Screenshot2026-09-23at16.46.17.png?v=1790171263","url":"https:\/\/niletravels.co.uk\/products\/villa-fayoum","provider":"Nile Concierge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}