La Casota
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La Casota |
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| La Casota is an agricultural property set in the very heart of the valley, on the old road linking the villages of Campell and Fleix, at the foot of the Cavall Verd mountain. | |
| La Casota was originally the site of an ancient 12th-century Almohad settlement, which included a defensive tower (recently classified as an Object of Cultural Interest), erected on an outcrop of rock that was easy to defend and affording a view of the neighbouring fortresses: the castles of Atzabaras, Pop, Orba and Denia, with the coast beyond; on a clear day the island of Ibiza is visible. |
 View of Campell from the tower of La Casota |
| Alongside this tower the 17th-century Mallorcan settlers built the farmstead now known as La Casota, to which a number of auxiliary constructions were added over the course of time: the "Riu-Rau" or typical arcade-fronted building for drying raisins; the "Casa de la Era" or Threshing-Floor House; the "Estufa" or Stove, where the raisin-drying process was continued on rainy days. The whole complex has been restored and refurbished for the use of guests as follows: | |
 The 'Riu-Rau' |
The
“Riu-Rau” An old porticoed construction originally designed for storing raisins overnight, refurbished and divided into four separate double rooms each with individual access to the garden. Each room has a full en-suite bathroom, air conditioning
and heating, hair dryer, TV if required, pure cotton linen, etc.
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“Casa
de la Era”
Open
to all our guests, the Casa de la Era has two reception rooms, one with
a fireplace and the other -originally the stable- converted into a sitting-room
and bodega with wood-burning stove. It also boasts a small library and
the dining-room with magnificent sea views. |
 A bedroom |
 The 'Estufa' |
The
“Estufa” Refurbished
as a separate two-storey house, it has a fully equipped kitchen, a sitting-room
with a wood-burning stove, a Moorish oven and barbecue outside, TV, etc.
(capacity for 6 to 10 people). |
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“Estudio de la Torre”
Built close to the Almohad tower, this studio-apartment has a double bedroom, a full bathroom, a sitting/dining-room with a wood burning stove and sofa bed, a kitchenette and a veranda. |
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Communal areas Guests may enjoy the garden, with magnificent sea and mountain views, and the porticoed fountain-washhouse with goldfish. Meeting room with a capacity for 18 people Therapeutic swimming pool with solarium overlooking the sea. In addition, the house is surrounded by land devoted to ecological agriculture: almond trees, cherry trees, olive trees, carob trees, vegetable gardens, chicken runs, etc. The
owners also have horses (potokas). |
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 The wine cellar and our preserves |
OUR
CUISINE Our imaginative and carefully-prepared cuisine is based on our own home-grown biological produce. Breakfast consists of freshly squeezed natural juices, home-made buns freshly prepared each morning, toast, home-made jams, coffee, tea, etc.; for serious walkers we offer a more substantial breakfast with eggs from our own hens, cereals, a basket of fruit, etc. |
| Dinners consist of appetizers, a first course of vegetables prepared using our own garden produce: vegetable pastries, creams, "escalivadas" (roast vegetables), scrambled tender vegetables, vegetable crepes, salads of the season, etc; a second course of fish or meat: gilthead bream baked in salt with a vinegar and oil dressing flavoured with capers, cod with Swiss chard in a hot pepper sauce, mackerel "allipebre" (mackerel marinated in garlic and pepper), cous-cous (a traditional dish in this area), loin of pork in orange sauce, etc. To round off the meal, a home-made dessert: an extensive choice of cakes, mousses, fresh fruit water-ices and ice creams, etc. |  Breakfast |
| Picnic
bags for excursions.
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| La Casota - Rural Tourism....Tel: ..965 58 36 46 / 629 50 17 42 ......info@lacasota.com |
