06/18/2026
In the 1970s a visionary architect named Savin Couëlle arrived on the island of Cavallo off the southern coast of Corsica and built something around a millennia old granite monolith that the world had never seen before and has not seen since.
No right angles anywhere. Walls that grow directly from boulders. A central staircase carved into living rock. Volumes that flow like an interior landscape: soft, fluid, and completely open to the Mediterranean sea. Terraces that cascade gently down to a private crystalline cove so clear it looks invented.
Two residences. Nine bedrooms total. A vast troglodyte living area carved from the rock itself. And an architecture so deeply fused with its natural surroundings that from certain angles the house and the island are genuinely indistinguishable.
Yes it looks like the Flintstones. Yes that is absolutely a compliment.
Listed at $20,865,000 by Corsica Sotheby's Int. Realty