Converted millhouse with pool in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia

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The location is perfect for combining quiet rural holidays with Galicia’s most fascinating city. It's totally private. The surroundings are wooded countryside and a clean stream still flows through the garden and under the old millhouse, which has been completely renovated for tourism. 

And yet a stroll from the hillside hollow where the house is hidden away takes you immediately into Santiago de Compostela. The historic quarter of Galicia’s famed pilgrimage town, the cathedral square and the twists and turns of its alleyways, are only 15 minutes away by foot, past an oak park and the University Campus.

On a terrace above the house, with pretty views across the countryside, is a lawned swimming pool.

The house retains its rustic quality in wood beams and stone walls, while its facilities have been modernized to accommodate a party of up to seven people. Private parking is on the same level as the pool and one walks down a short slope to enter the millhouse via a covered, furnished terrace. This looks over a garden and a clean river flowing gently by.

The living room has a simply but adequately furnished and is equipped with satellite TV, DVD, CD player and wifi. There’s a fireplace for log fires if it gets chilly, although the entire house is also centrally heated. A kitchen and breakfast room has an electric cooker and two ovens (electric and microwave) as well as an old wood-fired hearth. An outside barbecue provides yet another cooking option. There’s a dishwasher for all the washing-up afterwards. A door leads out from the kitchen to a porch, whose seating faces the quietly running stream, a neatly kept lawn and the bank of the hillside.

There are four bedrooms, a double, two twins and a single, all on the first floor. If it's warm and you keep the windows open, the sound of the stream below is enough lull anyone to restful sleep. The bedrtooms share an upstairs bathroom and there’s another shower room downstairs.

The exterior areas comprise lawns and gardens on different levels, pride of place going to the superb swimming pool area. It’s a large (8 m x 5 m) pool and the views are very pretty.

Santiago de Compostela is a cheerful, animated small city, used to receiving visitors from all over the world, in particular pilgrims, many of whom have walked for days along well-trodden routes to reach the Cathedral of St James. This 12th century basilisk houses what are said to be the bones of the St James, the Apostle. It is situated on a vast square, the Plaza de Obradoiro.

You are in Galicia, so expect splendid food, especially fish and seafood. Galicia’s white wines are the best in Spain and Tarta de Santiago is the city’s sweet speciality, an almond tart not unlike a Bakewell.


Twenty-five minutes from the city are the Noia and the Muros estuaries, where starts the famed Costa da Morte (Coast of Death, so named for the many shipwrecks on its rocks over the centuries). Noia and Muros are two of the several river estuaries which crenellate the dramatic coastline and give the region its unique landscaping. Here you will find strands, fishing villages and a lively Atlantic Ocean.

Facilities
4-ring electric hob & oven; microwave; toaster; coffee macine; kettle; dishwasher;  fridge freezer; washing machine; iron & board; WiFi internet; satellite TV; DVD; CD player; oil-fired central heating; open fireplace; barbecue; sunloungers; terrace & porch furniture; private swimming pool (8 m x 5 m; 1.4 -1.6 m deep); lawned and tree-planted gardens; all linen provided; private parking.

Distribution
Exterior: gated entrance; swimming pool area; down slope to gardens and accommodation on two floors:
Ground floor: furnished, covered terrace to small hallway; living / dining room; shower room/wc; kitchen / breakfast room with access to furnished porch, gardens, stream.
First floor: 4 bedrooms (2 twin-bedded; 1 double-bedded; 1 single-bedded); bathroom/wc (shower over halftub).

Notes:
-Families with small children should note that two watercourses (a stream and a river) pass close to the house and that the pool is not fenced off.
-The pool is open throughout the year, weather permitting.
-Firewood is not included in the price, but can be ordered in advance and paid for locally.

Location & Distances
On the wooded edge of Santiago de Compostela, in a private estate by a river.

 

Plaza de Obradoiro (Santiago historic centre)	10 mins walk
Santiago de Compostela Airport	20 mins
Noia (estuaries and beaches)	25 mins
Costa da Morte	40 mins
A Coruña Airport	40 mins
Vigo Airport	50 mins
Porto Airport (Portugal)	2 hrs 30 mins

Booking information for this property
Changover day is Friday in High Season

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