a countryhouse in Spain for sale

For sale: el Portal o sota la Roca
in Santa Engràcia…
Looking for a great rural house in Spain?
You’ve found it…!

A little village history…
The village of Santa Engracia is situated 10km above the main C13 road running through
the Tremp valley. The asphalted road winds and climbs its way up from the valley to Santa
Engracia passing olive groves and vineyards from Castell d’Encus -
www.castelldencus.com
The original inhabitants of Santa Engracia were subsistence farmers growing a little wheat
for flour to produce bread, olives for olive oil, wine, almonds and vegetables, flocks of
sheep to trade and a pig or two, hens and rabbits for their own consumption. Money was
only needed to buy shoes, sugar and chocolate though itinerant charcoal burners sold their
product to the villagers for cooking. A local flour mill at Rivert took a part of the flour in
payment for their services.
Eventually this sort of life was no longer sustainable nor desirable to some of the sons and
daughters and many left the village to live and work in Barcelona in the 1950s, 60s and
70s. The village was semi-abandoned. There had been 48 families living in Santa Engracia
in the first half of the 20th century. By the late 1980s only one family plus a shepherd
remained. Though a road reached Santa Engracia in the 60s the village didn’t have a water
supply until the late 1980s. Before this the villagers took mules with water carriers 2km to a
natural spring. In the 80s inhabitants clubbed together to pay for a village water deposit
plus tubing from a spring and tubing to all the houses.
Begin 1990s the neighbours began to show interest in returning to their family homes for
weekends and holidays and most of the houses have now been modernised. In 2007 a
village sewage system was installed by Tremp local authority and the ancient cobbled
village street was replaced with concrete, relieved by a central decorative band of paving
stones plus an attractive viewing point comprising a bench and two chairs beneath the
shade of a small tree.

Fiesta Mayor

Breathtaking views…

…wherever you look…
A lot of place…

Come in and take a look…

Outside…

…and inside

Full equipped kitchen…

…and livingroom

Antique…

…and modern design

A lot of space…

…to relax

…and to sleep

Or just to enjoy…

…the view

Space for friends…

NOW FOR SALE….
EL PORTAL O SOTA LA ROCA
Price:
£ 225.000,-
(including all the content)

• Features:
El Portal o sota la Roca
Calle Unica 23
25636 Santa Engràcia, Tremp
The house is completely new build in 2002/2003 under the
supervision of the architects Nuria la Plaza Faidella and
Joaquim Obiols.
Only the backwall remembers at the old ruin it was before…
• Throughout the house gasoil central heating
• All windows are double glazed
• More than 170 sqm living space
• Courtyard 130 sqm
• Outside area 238 sqm
• Dutch design furniture (www.harvink.nl)
• Siematic kitchen
• Complete inventory
• Inflatable whirlpool
• And a lot more…you will be surprised…..
Interested ?
For more information you can contact Jane Newman from Casa Mauri,
www.casamauri.wordpress.com
Address; Casa Mauri s/n, Carrer Major, Santa Engracia,
25636 Tremp, Lleida, Spain
Email; casamauri@hotmail.com
Land lines; 00 34 973 252076,
or her UK number 00 44 (0)1325 526460
Mobile: (+34) 616 288 709
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Casa-Mauri-Holiday-
Apartments-Tremp-Catalunya/268411469870776?ref=hl
You also can contact directly the owner;
Kitty van Mourik
E-mail: kittyvanmourik@hotmail.com
Mobile: (+31) 653 10 57 11
…Only one can buy this unique house…don’t miss your chance!!!