The house
A whole villa for groups of 7 to 16
Always one group at a time: no reception desk, no other guests, nobody else’s schedule. Six hundred and fifty square metres indoors and four and a half thousand of garden. What follows isn’t a list of amenities — it’s the places people actually end up in.
Sleeping
Seven named bedrooms, sixteen beds and five bathrooms, arranged so a large group doesn’t sleep stacked on top of each other. Each room has its own theme, colour and paintings.
All with air conditioning and heating, smart TV and winter radiators. In two of the rooms the single beds join together to make a double.
The main sitting room
The fireplace, with the armchairs set around it so sixteen people can hold a single conversation. Not split into huddles — one conversation.
Firewood included.
The dining room
An extending table where sixteen people eat indoors without being squeezed in. Two matching sideboards line the room, full of collected china.
Crystal glasses, tumblers, cups and plates for everyone. The antique Limoges china comes out on request, arranged in advance.
Cooking
A ninety-centimetre Smeg range that looks like the fifties and was built now, with oven and a wide extractor hood. White Carrara marble worktops. Built for actually cooking for sixteen, not for reheating.
KitchenAid mixer, toaster and blender. Arcos knives, always sharp. Pots, pans and utensils in every size.
Coffee
Three ways to make coffee, because everyone has their own: a KitchenAid espresso machine with its grinder, Nespresso capsules, or filter coffee.
If something you want isn’t here, ask. We’re reachable for anything the kitchen needs.
The billiard table
An eighteenth-century billiard table, in use. It isn’t on display: people play on it. There are games on top of it, and you can ask for chess, draughts, backgammon or bingo.
The cinema
In the same room as the billiard table: 140-watt Marantz 7.1 sound, an Epson projector and a large screen. All sixteen fit on the sofas around it.
Air conditioning in summer. In winter the fire gets lit, or the radiators if you’d rather watch the film without flames.
Reading
Reading isn’t only looking at words. Beside the cinema fireplace there are two hundred and forty books on Spanish art: images of everything that can be called art tied to Valencia and to Spain.
And in the travel room, books to get lost in Japan, New York or Singapore.
The art
The house was furnished over centuries, not decorated in an afternoon. There are oils, engravings and canvases in the shared rooms and in every bedroom.
Here, pieces are restored, not replaced. That’s the difference between a house that was decorated and one that was gathered. We tell you what’s here when you arrive.
The ceramics
Restored ceramics spanning five centuries, and the cobalt-and-white chequer on the façade that gives the house its face.
The porch
The morning sun comes up and lands here. It’s exactly where it should be, and it’s where everyone ends up without anyone suggesting it. Sofas at one end, a table at the other, room for the whole group at once.
A small fridge for everyday things. Under the cushions there’s cobalt ceramic work that is a piece in its own right; covering it is a shame, but sitting on it without cushions is worse.
The pool
Private, outdoors, and kept clean and open twelve months a year. It isn’t heated, so in summer it’s used all day and in winter mostly by guests from northern Europe.
The waterline carries the same cobalt-and-white chequer as the façade. Around it, loungers and parasols for the whole group.
The wood-fired hot tub
Outdoors, for eight people, with a real wood-burning stove: you light it and it takes its time, like a fireplace. It works all year round.
You need to let us know in advance so it’s hot when you want it.
A 40-metre pergola
Forty metres covered in jasmine, bougainvillea and roses — fully covered, not half. A pergola like this isn’t planted: it takes decades to close over. This one already has.
It’s the most photographed thing in the garden, and the one thing nobody could replicate even if they copied everything else.
The hundred-year-old fig tree
A fig tree over a century old, throwing enough shade for a table underneath.
The garden pavilion
An enclosed pavilion seating twenty-eight, with heating, cooling and a wood stove. It’s the answer to what happens if it rains.
The barbecue
A charcoal barbecue, in its own corner of the garden.
The open fire
The open fire is somewhere else again, in another part of the garden. Live flame, for rice or just for sitting around.
The clay oven
A wood-fired clay oven, the third of the three outdoor fires. None of the three is near the others.
The play areas
They aren’t fixed: they move around the different gardens depending on the group and the ages of who’s coming.
The Virgin above the canopy
An eighteenth-century Virgen de los Desamparados, hand-painted, closes the canopy of the house. A one-off piece, unsigned.
The two small pergolas
Besides the big one there are two smaller, more sheltered pergolas covered in white and pink bougainvillea. They shade the spots the big one doesn’t reach.
The cactus courtyard
A garden of cacti and dry-climate planting — the other face of a Mediterranean garden: the one that asks for no water and looks well twelve months a year.
The vegetable garden
The vegetable garden is its own part of the grounds, not a patch hidden behind the house.
As of this year there’s a winter crop, so there’s something to pick in January too.
Parking
A hundred metres of private tarmac drive, twelve wide. Room for twenty vehicles, and for a car with a trailer, which almost no house can offer.
Useful if you arrive with horses, motorbikes, or kit for a trade fair. EV charging point and garage.
The mandarin grove
Six and a half hectares of Clemenules mandarins all around. They’re picked in winter, and you can smell it from the garden.
Where you sleep
Seven bedrooms, not one of them numbered
Each has its own name, colour and paintings. The house is white and cobalt; every room breaks that rule to have an identity of its own: the Greek blue of the Mediterranean room, the orange of the flower room, the green of the travel room, the burgundy of the bullfighting room, the navy of the naval one.
The beds are configured. There are sixteen beds, and how they’re arranged depends on the group: the same beds separate into singles or join into a double. If the group needs a different layout, we change it before you arrive — just say so. We’d rather talk it through than have someone sleep badly for not asking.
Included
What’s already there when you arrive
You don’t have to ask for it and it isn’t charged separately.
The house made ready
Six hours of work before every arrival, and flowers cut from the garden that same morning in every bathroom.
Bed linen and towels
Cotton sheets and 550-gram towels. White for indoors, grey for the pool.
Kitchen basics
A welcome pantry handed over on arrival: coffee, tea, sugar, oil, salt, pepper and bread. It usually lasts the whole stay, except the coffee. Shampoo, shower gel and lotion in the bathrooms.
Climate and smart TV
Air conditioning and heating plus a smart TV in every bedroom, winter radiators throughout the house and two fireplaces with firewood included.
A connection that holds
Mesh fibre covering the house and the garden, three network points and a backup with twenty hours of battery.
Parking
Room for twenty vehicles, a garage and an EV charging point.
Reachable seven days a week
We’re reachable throughout your stay. If something breaks, it gets sorted the same day.
What people who’ve stayed say
Two out of more than a hundred reviews
The reality far exceeds the photos: the villa is splendid, the rooms are immaculate and the facilities — the pool, the barbecue area, the cinema room — are fantastic. You feel at home immediately. A rare gem I’d recommend with my eyes closed to any family or group of friends.
Oliver · France · eleven people, one week
If it looks impressive in the photos, in person it’s a thousand times more so. Arrival and departure were easy and flexible. Quiet, green, well kept, full of singing birds; the house has everything you need. It recharged us and gave us unforgettable moments.
Sara · Spain · two nights with friends
The question nobody asks out loud
What happens when something breaks
This is a five-hundred-year-old house in the countryside. Over the years the power has gone, the water has been cut off and the connection has dropped. We don’t hide it, because what matters isn’t that it happens: it’s what happens next.
When the power went
Two days, in high summer. We filled the house with more than a hundred candles and candelabra, and cooked for the group ourselves so they went without nothing. Those guests left saying the house felt like another century. It did.
When the water was cut off
We brought in bottled water so nobody went without something cold to drink, and filled the tanks from outside so everyone could shower.
When the connection dropped
We bought a 5G router with twenty hours of battery. The fibre has had a backup ever since, and that’s why it’s on the list above: it isn’t a technical flourish, it’s the answer to one particular night.
Why we tell you this
Because nobody has ever dropped us below five stars over a power cut. What people remember is who was on the other end of the phone. We offer 24/7 support throughout your stay.
Before you write
The questions we get most
Do you rent the whole house or individual rooms?
Always the whole house, always one group at a time. It isn’t shared with anyone. For the length of your stay, the house, the pool and the six and a half hectares of orange and mandarin trees around it belong to your group.
What’s the minimum stay?
It varies with the season and the particular dates. The quickest way is to ask on WhatsApp with your dates to hand.
Can we get there and get around without a car?
Yes. We arrange transfers with our own drivers and eight-seater vans. Transfers are charged by the transport provider and the price is given before you book one. There’s also a metro stop nearby, about fifteen minutes from the city centre.
Do you allow pets?
One dog up to twenty-five kilos, agreed before booking.
What are the check-in and check-out times?
Check-in is from 3 pm and check-out by 10 am. If the group lands earlier and we can’t bring check-in forward, we collect the luggage at the airport so you can spend the day unencumbered.
If you want the thinking behind it
Why we do things the way we do
We wrote a letter about what we think: the land, the local crafts, the food and why we’re not interested in growing much. You don’t need to read it to come, but it’s there.
R.S.V.P.
What to ask for in advance
None of this is compulsory and none of it has a form. You tell us on WhatsApp and it’s sorted before you arrive.
The bed layout isn’t a constraint and arrivals get arranged. We’d rather talk it through than have someone sleep badly for not asking.
Book direct, no middlemen
Book directly with the owners, with no portal commission. You talk to us, we invoice, and we accept card or bank transfer.
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What groups say
5.0 from 120 reviews
On Airbnb, with Superhost status. And five stars too in the official Generalitat Valenciana classification.
My friends and I had a wonderful stay celebrating my 30th birthday at Villa Paula. The villa is absolutely stunning, with plenty of space both inside and in the beautiful garden.
By far the best Airbnb I have ever stayed in. The house is overwhelmingly beautiful. The pool and gardens are gorgeous and very well kept.
The house and garden are absolutely stunning. There was plenty of room for twelve of us: sitting rooms, films on the big screen, meals around the large table, the pool.