Finca/Country House for sale in Les Planes d'Hostoles, Girona

Some properties are understood through a house. Others, through a landscape. This one clearly belongs to the second category.

In the heart of La Garrotxa, in La Vall d'Hostoles, lies a rural estate of approximately 185 hectares encompassing forest, pastures, former agricultural areas, and a significant heritage of traditional architecture. Several registered properties effectively form a single, large-scale territory, characterized by an exceptional relationship between nature, history, and isolation.

The complex comprises seven historic rural units: Mas Xuriguera, Mas La Coima, Feixa del Rector, Mas Casanova d'en Marquet, Mas Costa, Mas Serrapelada, and Mas Bergant. Marketed together, they form a territory that preserves the structure of an old rural landscape, where farmhouses, land, forests, pastures, and paths were interconnected as part of a single system.

The main piece is Mas Xuriguera, a country house of approximately 806 m² built, documented since 1628. The complex also includes an old tenant farmer's house, a hayloft, stables and other auxiliary buildings historically linked to agricultural and livestock farming.

The architecture retains elements typical of Catalan rural tradition, with stone walls, timber framing, tiled roofs, old domestic spaces, and features linked to agricultural activity. The main country house maintains its traditional layout across several floors, with numerous elements that still allow one to interpret the daily life of the property throughout the centuries.

Mas La Coima, currently in ruins, is also part of the municipality's listed rural heritage. Mas Casanova d'en Marquet likewise retains the character of a former farm within a predominantly forested and pastureland environment. The remaining units—Feixa del Rector, Mas Costa, Mas Serrapelada, and Mas Bergant—complete a territory where various buildings and forested and agricultural areas follow one another, forming a continuous landscape.

Some of the buildings require complete refurbishment, while others are currently in a state of ruin. This should be understood as an essential part of the project: acquiring the complex offers the possibility of progressively recovering a large-scale rural heritage, respecting its character and its relationship with the landscape.

More than a collection of isolated buildings, what is preserved here is the structure of an old productive territory: house, tenant farmers' dwellings, haylofts, stables, land, forest, pastures and roads that form a single unit.

Nature and landscape

Nature is the true backbone of the property.

A vast area of native forest surrounds the open spaces and former agricultural and grazing areas. The topography, changes in orientation, and varying elevations create a diverse landscape, with areas of dense forest, clearings, and old fields that still reveal the traditional uses of the land.

Furthermore, inside La Finca there is a natural spring, an element that reinforces the character deeply linked to the landscape of this ancient rural territory.

The property is located in an area of great natural and scenic value in La Garrotxa, within La Vall d'Hostoles, an area characterized by its forests, valleys, mountains and a close relationship between nature and rural heritage.

Furthermore, its location allows you to enjoy the proximity of two of the most important mountain landmarks in the area: El Far and La Salut. The mountain trail that ascends towards El Far crosses the property itself, as it integrates it directly into a network of paths and routes that connect this territory with some of the most emblematic landscapes of the region.

An access that is part of the project

Access is one of the aspects that any prospective owner should know from the beginning.

From Les Planes d'Hostoles, the last three kilometers or so to the property are along rural mountain roads and require a 4x4 vehicle. The journey can take around 25 minutes depending on road conditions.

Therefore, it is not a property with conventional access. Improving and adapting the access routes must be part of any serious project to refurbish and enhance the site, and represents a necessary investment to fully restore the buildings and guarantee their future functionality.

This circumstance should be considered part of the very nature of the property: it is a mountainous area that has remained off the beaten track for decades. For this very reason, it retains a degree of privacy, authenticity, and connection with the environment that is difficult to replicate today.

A large-scale heritage project

The size of the property makes its value transcend that of a conventional rural building.

This is a territory where nature and heritage have evolved together for centuries and where it is still possible to recognize the structure of an old rural estate: the main buildings, the houses linked to the workers, the livestock areas, the fields, the pastures, the forests and the paths that connected them.

The site thus offers a rare opportunity to develop a territorial and heritage restoration project.

The investment needed to improve access and rehabilitate the buildings is part of this long-term project: an opportunity to bring back to life a unique rural area and preserve a part of the historic landscape of La Garrotxa.

More than just a building, it's a territory. A collection of seven historic rural units, over 185 hectares of nature, and a built heritage that, as a whole, offers the rare opportunity to recover a part of the rural memory of La Vall d'Hostoles and project it into the future.