H I S T O R Y

The date of the construction of the cottage is not sure. Two stones dated in 1681 were found, but in the Town Hall record office there are some documents that describe some repairs in the door of the cottage that very same year.

Stone found in the cottage

The cottage belonged to the Vilà family until 1929 when the nowadays owners' forefathers bought it. A family of 5 people and a servant who helped in the house lived on the farm. They even made money to buy new properties.

The extension of the farm is about 110,000 m2 of fields and forests. Until 1952 the farm had an olive grove to produce its own oil. The farm still keeps the pantry, the oil mill, the well and some stone sinks.

It also had a vineyard to produce the wine for the people of the house and to sell. Nowadays the vat is a changing room and the celler is a bedroom and a bathroom. Cereals, lucerne and turnips are other growings produced in the fields to feed the animals of the farm or to sell.

The animals were also fed with fruits and seeds. The cows, sows, piglets, geese, ducks, cocks, hens, rabbits and a horse lived in the stables of house. On Friday the people from the house went to the market in La Bisbal. There all the animals, cereals, vegetables and eggs that the farmers didn't need were sold, and the weekly shopping was made.

The house was only uninhabited at the end of the 90's. The restoration works started in 1996. First the roof, then the kitchen, some bedrooms... until 2005 the house was completely restored. Nowadays the owner's descendants live in a part of the house.