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Cal Cosme from the hill above with a Romanesque church perched on top

  • huge independent farmhouse
  • sleeps up to 17 or so in 8 rooms: 5 rooms with large double beds (150x200cm), 3 rooms with two single beds (90x200cm), and up to 4 additional fold out beds
  • central heating, 2 TVs, DVD, CD/radio/cassette player
  • altitude: 900mtrs, 105kms to sea, 5 km from town
  • private fenced in pool (9x4.5m) and covered 80m2 BBQ dining area + 15 lounge chairs
  • rental includes general cleaning and full linen change 8 days after your arrival
  • high season: 2775 Euros/week for up to 16 guests*
  • mid-season: 2275 Euros/week *
  • rest of year: 1785 Euros/week *
  • 80 Euros per week for each additional guests over 16 guests

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Location: As you can see from many photos included in this listing, Cal Cosme is in a beautiful unspoilt part of the world. This house is surrounded by fields and woods and you can hike up into the hills to the Sanctuary of Mare de Deu de Queralt right from your doorstep. Cal Cosme is located 12 kms southwest of Bergà, the provincial capital of the region. The nearest villages are Capolat and Esprunyola, about 4 kms away, 1.1 of the way is unpaved but well-kept off road driving. There is a good quality restaurant (with a football pitch in front, oddly enough) just at the turn off the main road to the 1.1 kms to Can Cosme. 3 kms from here is Espunyola, with a bakery and supermarket and a couple of restaurants, including one that does catering and sells prepared foods to take home.


Cal Cosme from the other angleThe grounds: Three buildings make up Cal Cosme. In addition to the 330m2 restored farmhouse, there is also a 50m2 covered barn with a ping pong table and a basketball hoop, and the outdoor BBQ area right next to the pool, in front of the house, which has wooden planked seating for about 20, and a sink and counter for food prep and a refridgerator. Both the barn and the BBQ area have lights for night time activity. There is a grassy lawn with some shade trees separating the house from the pool area, and behind the barn there is a wide grassy area where the kids can kick around a football.



the pool is fenced-in for child safety and located just across the lawn on a raised platform with great views in front of the outdoor BBQ dining area, which has a sink, a refridgerator, and lighting for night time mealsThe main house: The front door opens on to the large ground floor living/dining/kitchen area. To the right you have the living room spread around the fireplace and TV and stereo. The TV has a DVD player, and the little stereo has CD/radio/cassette and music can be pipped into all the rooms. Every room has a bedside nob for turning on and controlling the volume of the music being played on this stereo.


the living room areaAround the fireplace there are 2 sofas seating 3, 1 smaller sofa for 2, and two easy chairs. On the other side of the room is the long wooden planked dining table seating about 20 guests. Around the staircase to the back of this large room is the kitchen, no a large kitchen but well-equipped, with fridge, glass ceramic hob, electric oven, extractor, microwave, dishwasher, juicer, toaster, expresso, stick mixer, etc.. The fridge is the normal 1.75m variety, but the owners are putting in a second fridge in time for summer rentals.

The kitchen is sort of tucked in under the staircase, but beyond the kitchen there is a hall leading to the two downstairs bedrooms and the downstairs bathroom. One room with double bed (150 x 200 cm, so big by European standards) is just across from the downstairs bathroom. This is the only room in the house that does not have a private bathroom in the room itself. This is so as to have a bathroom for everyone to use downstairs. At the end of the hall there is another bedroom, this one with two single beds (that were pushed together to form a large double bed the day I visited) and this room has a private bathroom.


the dining table is just between the kitchen and the front doorUpstairs the first floor has a large central sitting area with another large TV with DVD player, a sofa for 3, two easy chairs, and a card table with 6 chairs. There are a couple of large windows, one overlooking the pool area, and the other one with great views of the magnificent mountains directly behind the house. Just off this central room is a bedroom with double bed and private bath. Down the hall towards the back of the house there are two rooms with single beds and two somewhat larger rooms with double beds. Some of these rooms have quite handsome exposed stone walls, and the bathrooms, while not large, all have nice tilework.


Upstairs the second floor of the house consists of a suite measuring about 50m2, with a private salon with a central table seating 6, and the good-sized bedroom with double bed and an extra bed in a corner, and bathroom beyond. All rooms in the house are external with windows and have nice views, with double glazing, insect screens, and wooden shutters to keep out the light. The decoration is sparse (which is desirable in a rental house) but the walls are painting with nice warm ocres and reds, and everything all the electrics and lighting is quite new and well done.










one of the downstairs bedrooms















another bedroomthe upstairs salon with TV































































it is the house in the middle, with the Romanesque church perched on the hilltop just behind, to the right a little bit closer now

Now to some more photos kindly sent in by Loes Cornelissen, who rented Cal Cosme in August 2006:

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