Finca/Country House for sale in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada

This unique home for sale in a magical enclave. The Royal Palace was built by the Nasrid kings in approximately the year 1280, at the same time that the Alhambra was built to be the recreation, hunting, and leisure estate of the kings and sultans. The property has the Royal Palace that has 760 m2, 1 main house 214 m2, 2 attached servants' houses 304 m2 and 1 small house for prayer, 53 m2 known as "moraito", facing Mecca, and a drying room. Of 679 m2. It is surrounded by gardens that are replicas of the Generalife (summer house of the Alhambra), a swimming pool with palm trees and more than 10,000m2 of plot. In total there are 3200 m2 built. The Soto de Roma palace has very spacious and bright rooms on the ground floor, some of them with original floors from the time of construction. All windows and doors have been restored in detail or replaced with solid and noble woods, it also has two fireplaces, an industrial kitchen for events with an elevator to lift goods to the top of it. On the same floor we find the Cloister, which was built by the Duke of Wellington, great hero of the Napoleonic Wars, and added to the original palace. The entrance is in the English Gothic style with pointed arches, whose bricks were brought by the Duke of Wellington from England. The stairs designed by the Duke are imperial style, with a single piece of stone from Sierra Elvira. The upper floor has a majestic gallery and balcony overlooking the garden from which you access the main living room, with two fireplaces, and where the charm of the Arab windows, restored by the owners with remains of moldings found there, allow us to enjoy the rear garden of the Palace. Here is the pool surrounded by fruit trees and different types of palm trees. Attached to the living room is the mirror room, built by the Nasrids, and which also has its fireplace. The palace has handicrafts made of Tea Pine wood, centralized heating, a total of 6 fireplaces, double-glazed windows, clay floors. Fired, natural stones and marbles, making it an exclusive and unrepeatable building. The main house attached to the Palace was formerly connected by a gallery that does not exist today. This house has a kitchen, living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fireplace and central heating independent of the Palace. The 2 joined houses are also prepared with bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. It is worth highlighting the Prayer House known as "moraito", which had the function of a mosque with its qibla oriented towards Mecca. The wooden crafts with carvings dating back to the year 1300 are a historical jewel, with the entire house being built on a flow of underground water, since for the Nasrids this was very important for calm and well-being. It has its own water well for irrigation. The tobacco drying room has an area of 679m2, and lends itself to all types of interventions with a wide range of possibilities, such as expanding into 14 suites for hotels, an individual house or several more. Small, as estimated. Internally it could be built with double height, expanding the meters to 1350m2. This wide range of possibilities is a wild card to adapt the palace to any use that the client decides. Soto de Roma is so unique, due to its more than 700 years of history, that it has a monographic book dedicated to it in which everything that happened is reviewed behind its walls. It has belonged to Arab Sultans, the Catholic Monarchs, European Monarchs, the Duke of Wellington, to whom Richard Wall was Minister for the Spanish Crown and who died in El Soto, Juana daughter of Ferdinand the Catholic, Charles I, Philip II, Philip V, Charles V, Marquises and Counts. Renowned people such as Richard Ford, one of the great romantic travelers of the 19th century along with Washington Iriving, have stayed overnight, and he drew the palace during his stay. H. Hammick also drew it, and other famous travelers such as Cosimo de Medicis, and a long etcetera, stayed there. There is numerous documentation about the Palace in the Spanish Royal Archive of the Crown in Madrid, several research works and several books dedicated to the in-depth study on the history, architecture, irrigation techniques, among other topics related to this unique property. Distances: Granada Beach 1 hour. Granada capital 20 minutes Granada Airport 15 minutes where private jets can land without problems Malaga Airport 1 hour 30 minutes. This home is sold without furniture.