Apartment for rent in Castelldefels, Barcelona

Living on a floating platform is beautiful. We used to have the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we would lie on our backs and look up, and argue about whether it had been created or simply happened” - Mark Twain.

We welcome you to the Lucretia Herschel penthouse. With 122.41 m² built, it invites you to contemplate beneath the dark sky the great luminous spectacle of Castelldefels city centre. Let the show begin.

Lucretia was the daughter of a musician and an amateur astronomer. It is said that on nights when the sky allowed it, she would sit beside her father to watch the most distant stars, while singing songs like “der mond ist aufgegangen”.

Upon entering the community, we can glimpse how perfectly everything is set up—new build, with everything to be premiered. Just like Lucretia, her brother William also developed a curiosity for the stars, and together they helped with their work as astronomers, including grinding, polishing the mirrors, and copying their records.

We enter the penthouse through the hallway, or else directly from the elevator, which opens into the living room itself, and we immediately realize that everything has been completely renovated, where the fresh style wonderfully contrasts with Scandinavian touches.

It was then that both of them discovered Uranus, the result of their passion for the universe. The same passion that you can feel when you see how light passes through the windows.

A spacious living room next to the kitchen. All brand new, minimalist, where it is characterized by dazzling simplicity: white and bright, with touches of wood color that further highlight the light coming in.

The discovery was so important that her passion for the night sky led her to see what no one had been able to achieve.

We move on to the bedrooms on this floor. There are three, where the sun comes in without measure. Where cheeky light snuggles you and wakes you in the mornings, and accompanies you for the rest of the day. The master bedroom has its own en-suite bathroom, and the others share a second bathroom.

We go up to the attic through our staircase. We see a large open-plan space where to set up a fourth bedroom of 43 m² with its own bathroom.

This is the moment—we pass through the curtains and, before us, a terrace opens up with a surface area of 26 m². Twenty-six open meters where you can do whatever you want. With no prying looks that might make you uncomfortable, there are 180 degrees open to the sky and the stars.

Perhaps this is the place where, just like Lucretia, you could see with your own eyes the próxi