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Five centuries, and still lived in
A 16th-century house near Valencia where you dine beneath its paintings, play on its billiard table and read by its fireplace.
The roots
Andalusian roots, Valencian devotion
The arches and the geometry of the house have Andalusian roots, and they live alongside the Valencian Christian iconography that was added later.
We restored it over four years. What we found was restored, not replaced.
The façade
A hand-painted Virgin
At the top of the façade there is a Virgen de los Desamparados, Our Lady of the Forsaken, hand-painted in the early 19th century. The border of citrus fruit around her is where the orange blossom that identifies the house comes from.
The bedrooms
Seven bedrooms, each with its own paintings
Mediterranean, White, Flowers, Naval, Travel, Bullfighting and Children’s: each with its own original works of art.
On the walls
Where life happens
The paintings are not in an exhibition room: they hang where people dine and talk. Oils, prints, canvases and an old tapestry.
The library
Two hundred and forty books and an 18th-century billiard table
Books on Spanish and Valencian art by the fireplace, to open at any page on a winter afternoon. And a billiard table more than two hundred years old that is played on: no rope, no sign.
The face of the house
The checkerboard
Cobalt and white on the façade, on the garden pillars, on the benches of the entrance hall, along the waterline of the pool and on the tableware.
The garden
More than a hundred years
A century-old pergola covered in jasmine that is itself over a hundred years old, a century-old fig tree and olive tree, and a sundial. Around them, a seven-hectare estate with working mandarin groves, inside the Turia Natural Park.
The subtlety of time
Guilty
Yes. Of going further than others, of choosing first, of looking for what is singular. Of knowing the unnecessary.
Not everything has to make sense: many of the best things in life cannot be explained. Neither can the best of this house: it doesn’t fit in a photo, you feel it in the time.
In summer, a tomato that tastes of tomato because it was picked that morning in the kitchen garden. A long afternoon at the table after lunch, with an open book nobody is in a hurry to close. A glass of eighteen-year-old whisky by the fireplace, which is time you drink slowly. And the last one, on the porch, once the sun has gone.
And then there is us
We tell you the stories ourselves
Every piece has its story, and it isn’t written down anywhere: we tell it walking through the house, if you would like.
Paula and Diego
Coming to stay
The whole villa, for a single group
A couple, a family or a group of friends, up to 14 people. Minimum 2 nights, from €1,399 a night for the whole house, VAT included.
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