an Xargay is a millenary farmhouse of XI century whose antique name was Mas Bratlle.
It´s the big house of this neighbourhood, the other houses were little farmhouses.
Pagès-Bratlle´s family lived in the house during a lot of centuries.
This family was very rich because they were owners of the village´s lands .
Nearly 2 centuries ago, the family of the Homestead Bratlle constructed a new house in the same village and the farmhouse was rented to the family Xargay.
At halves of the 20th C., the family Bratlle went to live in Barcelona and their properties slowly kept on being sold to several farmers.
Then, the family Xargay bought the farmhouse where many generations had already lived.
illustration that represents the activities around the farmhouse
The Bratlle´s family went to Barcelona and they sold all their lands.
During the centuries, a lot of reforms have been done in the house, for example
there was built a house near it, the shelter where, nowadays, there´s the
barbecue, had been a bakery where Mata´s people baked the bread.
Nowadays, the farmhouse is adapted at the rural tourism with all the
comfort of the actual houses. All of the farmhouses´s walls are the originals
and stone vaults that there´re in the basement too. In the farmhouse
you can enjoy the special silence. The thick stone walls of the farmhouse
are warm in winter and cool in summer.