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Can Brugues from the pool
  • a large 9 bedroom, 7 bathroom independent villa divided into three different independent duplex apartments - but rented as a whole to large groups
  • sleeps 19 or so
    • 2 kms to commuter train to Barcelona, Girona, the coast...
  • short walk to shopping (bakery, butcher, supermarket) & restaurant
  • central heating, 3 kitchens, 4 fireplaces, 3 washing machines, 2 TVs with DVD, 2 CD/radio/cassette players, dishwasher
  • altitude: 65mtrs, 15 kms to sea, on edge of town
  • private pool (10x5m) with casade effect
  • high season: 3500 Euros/week, mid-season: 2400 Euros/week, low-season: 1750 Euros/week

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Here is a first draft of my description of the this house for the website written back in April of 2006. The owners have reinvested some of the earnings from last summers rentals in the house, including a line of pine trees along the main fence and a new magnolia shade tree near the pool, so the garden is looking better than ever. The step by step description that follows does tend to ramble on a bit, but then so does the house!

Location: Can Brugues is located right on the edge of the town of Sils. Sils is not the most gorgeous of Costa Brava villages, but is a very good central location close to Girona (18km) and Barcelona (70km) and the beaches of Lloret and Blanes (15kms) and has a very good infrastructure of roads (the A-7, the N-2, and the C-63 up to the mountains) are all very nearby, as is the commuter train in to Barcelona and Girona and Figueres - very convenient if you don´t want to drive. Sils is also home to some very good restaurants, one of which, ever popular Les Mallorquines, is a 5 minute walk from the house. You also have a nearby municipal pool and tenis club, a football pitch just down the hill from Can Brugues, and a low-key discoteque a few kms away.


Can Brugues is on the edge of town, so if you are looking for a villa with absolute privacy and no neighbors, this is not the place for you. Better to go for Cal Moro, which is just on the other side of Sils. But if you like the idea of being in town and being able to walk over the the bakery to get fresh croissants for breakfast (there is also a very good butchershop in this part of Sils) than Can Brugues might be for you. Looking out from the poolside you´d never know that you were in a village. There is absolutely no other house visible from the pool area, but there are village houses around Can Brugues...


The house: Can Brugues is surrounded by a perimeter wall and fence and you drive in to the gravel parking area - quite large, enough room for 10 or more cars - through a front gate directly off a little transited village street. To the right you have the pool area and to the left the large house, measuring about 500m2. The house is divided into three parts, each can be considered an independent two storey apartment, but the total number of rooms is 10 bedrooms, and 7 bathrooms. Here is the breakdown by flat:


The main part of the house (to the right in the photos) has several entrances, in fact five separate entrances from the garden. The main entrance opens on to the central receiving hall, which has the wrought iron staircase and the elegant full length mirror under the skylight up to the 1st floor. If you turn right from this central room, you go in to the large living room, about 80m2 with very high ceilings, with two leather sofas seating up to 4, and 4 leather lounge chairs, as well as two rocking chairs. The living room has its own very wide doors out to the garden area - I mean, the whole side of the living room can be opened up to the great outdoors, and above the door there is glass instead of a wall, so you get lots and lots of natural light in this room. There is a wide screen TV with DVD player, and a mini hi-fi with CD/radio/cassette.


Just off the main living room is another little reading room with wicker sofa and some chairs. From the back of the living room to the right is the door to the outdoor BBQ and dining area. To the left of the living room is the hallway to the large kitchen area. The hallway has a bathroom with walk-in shower, and next door is a large pantry where the washroom is located, with washing machine, and dark back room for cool food storage. I think I remember this room has a sort-of countertop and shelving built above what must have been stalls and troughs for feeding farm animals some years ago!


On this back way into the kitchen from the living room you pass a breakfast table before reaching the modern kitchen itself, which has all the modern cons, including dishwasher, double sink, electric oven and stovetop, extractor, microwave, toaster, juicer, and lots and lots of cutlery and pots and pans, all quite new. Across from the kitchen is the cozy main dining room, with a heavy looking oval wooden table and chairs seating up to 20 in front of an hold fireplace. There is also a separate entrance into the kitchen, so counting the main entrance, the living room, the BBQ area, and now the kitchen, we are up to four entrances, the fifth one you can just barely make out in the photos: the outdoor staircase going up to the second floor...


Upstairs there is a central hallway leading to the five bedrooms and two bathrooms up here. At the far end of the hall and overlooking the pool and gardens is the bedroom with the private staircase coming up from the garden. This room has two single beds (190x90cm) pushed together on the same bed frame, making a double bed measuring 180x190cm. Making your way down the hall, which is nicely lit with skylights in the roof, you find three rooms with two single beds, most with plenty of closet space, and at the other end of the hall, another room with double bed and private terrace (about 25m2) overlooking the BBQ area downstairs. There are two bathrooms in the hall, one with walk in shower, the other with a bathtub.


The two apartments next door a like little duplexes, the slightly bigger of the two on the far end of the patio. This is where the owners stay when they are at the house and so slightly better set up than the other smaller apartment next door, with a nice beige sofa and lounge chair in the downstairs living room, and a small toilet followed by the a sort-of kitchenette with medium sized fridge, double sink, electric oven and stove, etc.. Upstairs, under the hallway skylight, are three rooms, the owners large bedroom with a nice traditional Catalan bedframe and new mattress measuring 150x 190cm, and another room next door with a similar sized double bed, and a bathroom with walk-in shower.


The smaller apartment here had a downstairs living room but due to demand for more bedding, the ground floor here now consists of two double beds, a small toilet, and a kitchenette identical to the one next door. Upstairs is somewhat smaller and one room has two single beds and the other room has only one single bed, along with the skylight in the hall with the bathroom with shower next door. These two apartments have another TV which you can plug in in a number of different rooms, and a another small portable CD/radio/cassette player.


There are some nice decorative details throughout the house, and most of the lighting in the common areas is halogen lighting. There are 8 recliners around the pool area and the outdoor BBQ area seats up to 20. The photos you see here were taken just after the landscaping in the garden was started so you can expect to find the garden much greener then it looks here.

For those of you who want a really big house and don´t want to be out too far into the countryside, Can Brugues might be just what you are looking for.






























































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