Can Xargay
Delve into our history. Breathe the air of ancient experiences.
A thousand years ago, a farmhouse was built that we now know as Can Xargay.
Originally named Mas Bratlle, this farmhouse built with the typical stone of the area (travertine) emerged as the great protector of the Mata neighbourhood, hosting stories and experiences of entire generations.
The farmhouse life until the 18th century
The bourgeois Pagès-Bratlle family governed this farmhouse and also other houses and lands in the village.
But, seeking new horizons, the family decided to build a new house in the same village and rented Mas Bratlle to our family, the Xargay family. Thus began a new era.
What happened in the middle of the 20th century?
The Bratlle family went to live in Barcelona and, little by little, their properties were fragmented and sold to the tenants who had looked after them for so long.
At that time, our family bought the farmhouse and so we went from being tenants to owners of this house full of history, and which, in addition, we had already been taking care of for generations as if it were our own.
And nowadays?
The farmhouse is adapted to tourism with all the comfort of today's homes, but preserving its soul and essence. All its walls are original as well as the stone vaults on the ground floor.
Inside the farmhouse, with thick stone walls that are warm in winter and cool in summer, you can enjoy a special silence that seems to stop the time.
Would you like to know some curiosities?
Over the centuries, the farmhouse has undergone renovations such as the construction of an annex farmhouse or, for example, the covered area where the barbecue is currently located was formerly an oven where the tenants baked bread.
But what surprised us most during the restoration, was finding a secret room where the only entrance to this place was under a bed in a bedroom!
Today, this old hiding place is part of the living room, a living reminder of the secrets that this farmhouse still holds.
Every visit to Can Xargay is a new page in this thousand-year-old history.
Discover it and become part of this history.
And most importantly... the history continues with you!
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Can Xargay. Year 1960's
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Xargay's siblings. Year 1940
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