Today's lineup spans five different countries in one go — Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and France — with prices running from €500,000 up to €2 million and a pool worth building a summer around at every stop.
 |  |
A Cephalonian Hideaway Built Around Its Own Pool
€500,000 — Kaligata, Cephalonia, Greece. The most affordable of today's five still comes with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and 147 square meters on the Ionian island best known for turquoise water and steep, pine-covered hillsides — the pool above does a lot of the talking on its own.
 |  |
A Costa Blanca Escape With Room to Spread Out
€700,000 — Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms fill out 125 square meters on Spain's Costa Blanca, where a private pool turns an ordinary afternoon into a staycation without ever leaving the property.
 |  |
An Abruzzo Estate on a Different Scale Entirely
€1,000,000 — Manoppello, Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. Ten bedrooms and twelve bathrooms make this historic Italian estate the largest of today's five by a wide margin — the listing simply asks interested buyers to inquire about square footage directly, and the pool pictured above is just one part of the grounds.
 |  |
An Algarve Retreat With a Second Pool Elsewhere on the Grounds
€1,180,000 — Tunes, Silves, Algarve, Portugal. Four bedrooms and six bathrooms spread across 228 square meters would be plenty on their own, but this Algarve property doubles down with a second private pool elsewhere on the property — the one pictured above is just the main event.
 |  |
A Provence Hilltop Villa Closes Out Today's Five
€2,000,000 — Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. The priciest home in today's batch sits in one of the French Riviera hinterland's most storied art-world villages: four bedrooms and 151 square meters wrapped around the pool that makes the whole property.
That's today's five. Hit reply and tell us which pool you'd actually want to spend August next to — we read every response.