Family holiday villa in Girona forests with shared gated pool

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When we took this property on, our thoughts kept returning to the same theme: this is a fantastic place for children. Having said which, the smart property, the peace and quiet, its proximity to Montseny, very good restaurants and the coast make for interesting ingredients for their parents, too.

The villa represents quality Catalonia accommodation. It's set within a large forest estate owned by a local woodcutter. It is, you might say, a cut above the standard country villa.

It shares an excellent, gated swimming pool with up to two other families staying in another part of the finca.

Bright, stylish and tidy, it combines modernity with an outdoor world that is a real joy: forest grounds with a fresh stream running through, making a small waterfall, where you can explore and ramble to your hearts’ content. 

It’s a property that has been well put together, employing quality materials and built chiefly from local stone and wood. There are four bedrooms (with extra beds if required for up to 11 guests), three bathrooms and a spacious main room with living and dining areas.

The swimming pool is situated above the villa, where it is fenced and gated for child safety. If one or other of the two other holiday homes (well distanced and not overlooking CA29) is occupied, you share the pool with them, otherwise it’s just for you. The water is salt-filtered: much kinder on the eyes than chlorine. All around it is a extensive green lawn.

This area of rural Girona is blessed with major aquifers which provide mineral water for bottling, sustenance to forest and plant life, and create a number of rivulets and clean and healthy streams. You really do feel part of that living environment when you’re here.

A major attraction here is Montseny, just ten minutes down the road. Montseny is Catalonia's oldest Natural Park and an outstanding destination for walkers of varying levels of fitness and interest. There are a number of itineraries to follow from easy strolling through medium to challenging. It is said that mountain trekking in Spain began here and one soon understands why when one comes upon the outstanding beauty of the heights. There are superb woods, forests and mountain views. Amongst the heights are high monasteries and castles.

And how about seaside trips? Beaches of the Costa Brava are little more than a half hour away.

At most times of the year, you’ll inevitably be spending most of the time outdoors between one attraction and activity and another, but if the temperature drops you do have central heating back at the villa, as well as open fires both inside the house and out, under the covered porch.