NUESTRAS PROPIEDADES A LA VENTA
GRUPO AL PASSATORE
CASTILLETE EN LA PROVINCIA DE GIRONA
150 HECTÁREAS
MEJOR VERLO
2.500.000€
CAN BERTRAN & CASA NOVA CAN BERTRAN
“Can Bertran” is a 16th century construction build on a protected 1.530.000 square meters forest, with areas overlooking the valley of the “Baix Emporda” in the province of Girona, and a guess house called “Casa Nova Can Bertran”, from which we can see at night the city of Girona and during the day the Pirennees. The property is about an hour away from the French border. This two stone-built houses are the only ones on the premises and nothing else on its immediate surroundings.
SOLD “Casa Nova Can Bertran”, is about 350 square meters of living space, it has been all restored to its original state, all hand-made clay materials and wood. It is about 800 meters from Can Bertran. It consists of five bedrooms, one family room, two fire places, kitchen with dining room, large family dining room, play-room, two bathrooms, both with shower rooms, a balcony over looking the forest and a pond.
The main house, “Can Bertran”, has a defending tower, used to protect its members from bandits back on time. It served, according to the governor of Quart, Mr. Pere Cabarrocas, from one of the towns nearby as a source of supplies to the sieged city of Girona during the times of the French invasion. They sended supplies to the people inside the city through a canyon during night, because the “masia” (as this construccions are called in this region) has been self sustained.
The road to the main city and capital of the province of Girona, the city of Girona, is paved and is about twenty to twenty-five minutes by car. There are all type of activities around the city and also if we drive towards the opposite side of the mountain, we find the famous valley of “Baix Emporda”, where we find from canoeing to hot-balloon flights, sky diving, roman cemeteries, towns and all types of beach activities. The area is well known as the golden triangle, for its cultural richness and resources in general, as well as its growing potential. There are plenty of trails to walk or horse-ride. The majority of the “masias” on the area, are family-owned restaurants that served the typical mediterranean cuisine and rural hotels,.
Can Bertran has about one thousand square meters of living space, consisting of 16 different very large rooms, all arranged on different levels that vary not only on heights from each other, but also on forms. Four of them being original roman arched vaults. The defending tower, its main structure, gives the house an air of power and strenght. One of the vaults, twelve by six meters wide, is about ten meter-high and part of its walls are carved on the rock. The kitchen has an original bread-baking oven and a wall to wall fireplace.
The walls on both properties run between 40 to 100 centimeters wide, varying, depending on its function on the structure. The houses are both made of stone from the area. The windows like the originals, gothic, are stone carved blocks, they have been recovered and are about to be installed.
The roof is all made of original hand-made clay tiles, along with chestnut wood rustic-beams, as it was originally. Being the main beam twelve meters long and more than a meter of circumference. The property has been restore keeping to the maximum its originality, and saving most of its original roof tiles, rustic looks and appearance. The floor, the roof tiles are all clay hand-made.
There is also an original forty-meter deep, water-well. Which at its bottom is a carved stone, that looks very much as a shining pot, it was man made. It also has a carved-on-the-rock vault that has a roman arched roof and is ground level, that is to serve as water reservoir, and collects all the water from the roof through hand-made clay channels. The doors are all wood and hand-made, with its original hinges, locks and nails. Power has been rigged to the houses from a distance of about two kilometers, to a transformer that supplies three-face power to each one of the homes.