Townhouse for sale in Sant Quintí de Mediona, Barcelona

In 1916, the Soler-Miró family, originally from Barcelona, decided to move to Sant Quintí de Mediona. The father, Esteve Soler, was a wealthy textile industrialist who had made his fortune during the years of the First World War thanks to contracts with French companies. This is how the story of the house ELS SOLER DE SANT QUINTÍ begins. With 390 m², it is divided into different floors. Tired of the hustle and bustle of Barcelona and attracted by the vineyards of Penedès, he bought the house for its elegant geometric spaces, its large garden of over 100 m² designed for the echo of birds and the tranquility of the wind passing through the plots, and a style clearly Noucentista. We continue on the ground floor and pass through the wrought iron doors with glass. Before us appear the garages. With space for three cars in a line, it is the anteroom to the patio. His wife, Montserrat Miró, was a cultured and refined woman, passionate about painting and poetry. They both shared the idea that Catalunya should be modern, civic, and Mediterranean, and dreamed of an orderly, educated, and beautiful society. We descend to the cellars, now converted into a space for concerts and small poetic evenings. The ground floor is complemented by a large living room-kitchen with access to the patio and a reading room. We go up one floor. The staircase is part of the charm, which we traverse until the first floor. An independent apartment has been created there. One May afternoon, a horse-drawn carriage arrived at the house. From it stepped Eugeni, a friend of Esteve from the times when they both frequented the Barcelona intellectual circles. It is here that, as a guest of honor, he stayed for an entire summer. The floor boasts 3 large bedrooms plus a study that connects with the living room. During his stay, he marveled at the tranquility of Penedès, its orderly hills, the golden light of sunset, and the architecture of the house ELS SOLER DE SANT QUINTÍ, perfectly harmonized with the ideals of Noucentisme: Proportion, clarity, reason, and beauty. One of the things he liked most was to look through the arches of the windows and talk about art and creating a cultured and modern Catalan culture. One of those days when the stillness captivated him, and peering through the kitchen window, Eugeni wrote a gloss inspired by Sant Quintí de Mariona where he described a "Catalan house of order and beauty, where Intelligence and the vineyard coexist with Mediterranean harmony."