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what a great location, you´ve got playing fields all around you and a forest behind the house

Can Gironés is a spacious house with a large private garden and fenced pool in a very priviledged location, just off the fairways of the Caldes de Malavella PGA golf course. Golfers will enjoy the proximity to the club but anyone would enjoy staying at this nicely restored, comfortable and well-situated house, just off the N-II, 10 minutes drive south of Girona.

  • 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom independent rental villa in 400m2 house
  • sleeps 9 or 10 guests, all rooms en suite with single beds
  • situated on the PGA golf course at Caldes, a short walk (8 minutes) from the clubhouse
  • four-star hotel complex has terraced café/playground with wifi internet connection
  • central heating, 2 fireplaces, 2 TVs, CD/radio/cassette player, dishwasher, washing machine, etc...
  • altitude: 65mtrs, 12 kms to sea, 4 km from town/train, 75 kms to Barcelona
  • private fenced pool (8x5m), BBQ, swings, ping pong, etc
  • rental rates: high-season: €2200/week, mid-season: €1900/week, low-season: €1650/week

     

    one of the two driveways into Can Girones´s private walled compound, the pool on your left here

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    Location: Can Girones is just across from the PGA clubhouse and the four-star Melias PGA hotel-golf complex, which has bar/restaurant/terraced café with wifi internet - all of which you can use. The owner of Can Girones sold part of her land to allow the construction of the golf course, and guests at this house are welcome to use the facilities.

    Behind the house there is a restaurant within walking distance, a very simple and inexpensive place that specializes in BBQ grilled meats. See the comments page about walking home at night after a meals there...

    2.5 miles away is the locally famous spa town of Caldes de Malavella where there are remnants of Roman baths, a nice old town with plenty of cafés and restaurants, fancy spas like the art nouveau Vichy spa-hotel, and the commuter train to Barcelona (1hour) and Girona and points north. There is a full range of shopping in Caldes, supermarkets and specialty shops.

    the pool is also fenced for child safety The historic capital city of the Costa Brava, Girona, is just 10 miles up the N-II motorway, now two lanes in both directions, meaning it is easy to drive up for a walk around that famous and lively old town.

    The closest beaches would be those around Tossa de Mar and Sant Feliu de Guixols, a quick 15 kms on the C-35 motorway, but there are about 40 blue-flag (top notch) beaches on the Costa Brava, and Can Girones is a short drive from most of them. Getting to and from the beaches on the back roads is part of the fun.The countryside is gorgeous and the old farmhouses spectacular, like in Tuscany and the best parts of Southern France.

    You can search any of the placenames mentioned above in internet for further info, and many of the beaches on the Costa Brava have their own websites, sponsored by the local municipality and with photographs and a run down of services (showers, cafés, lifeguards, watersports, etc).

    My website also has travel info on 10 different routes within the Province of Girona and with some photos.

    there are two salons, each with TV and fireplace. This is great as you can divide up into adult and kids

    Caretaker: the owner of Can Gironés has secured the services of a caretaker to look after the property and her guests, and quite wisely she chose Neus Vila, the same woman who runs such a tight ship at other rental properties I offer in the area (Can Cunill, Can Brugues, and La Casa de les Monges). With Neus at the helm I am confident this house will also be well run. Neus has a café in nearby Sils where you always find someone if you need to.

    The villa grounds and garden: The area immediately around the villa is a quite sophisticated walled-in garden landscaped with a variety of surfaces, ranging from different colored cork, bark, and volcanic stone and organic paving tiles, with different types of shade trees, the entire perimeter fenced-in, as is the pool, with a picket fence for child safety.

    Around the walled in villa, you have flat fallow land for the children to play in, and beyond that, on one side the golf course in front of the house and behind the house typical Mediterranean woodlands of pine and oak and fragrant shrubs. There are no other dwellings any where near this very private property, although there is a rustic restaurant about 10 minutes away specializing in cheap local fare, especially grilled meats.


    all the rooms are quite nice, with private bath
    The interior: The large wooden and glass front door opens onto the large typical Catalan farmhouse central room - at well over 40m2, too big to be called a central hallway, more like a large central room like the central nave of a cathedral, flanked on either side by the living and dining rooms and kitchen, and with the stairway up to the first floor at the far end. This distribution is very logical and is repeated upstairs with the large central room under lovely wooden ceiling beams around which the five bedrooms and four bathrooms are distributed.

    Downstairs: To the right of the main entrance is the first of the two living rooms, this one with a large fireplace and a smallish TV, a cloth sofa seating three, two lazy chairs under a reading lamps, and a card table over by the window looking out towards the front of the house. The next room on this side of the house is the second and larger living room, this one with a larger TV, a portable radio/cassette/tape player, two 3 person sofas, and two separate card tables seating 4 each. The windows here look out over the pool to the side of the house.


    all the bathrooms are nice too
    Across the central entrance is the dining room, also with a cozy fireplace, the dining table seating 12 guests, and there are two doors from the dining room, one to the central hallway, and the other leading directly into the kitchen. The modern kitchen has medium-sized fridge, double sink in front of a window, electric hob and oven, dishwasher, microwave, stick mixer, toaster, etc. and plenty of marble counterspace for food prep. Beyond the kitchen is the downstairs toilet with sink, so that you don´t have to go upstairs, and beyond that is the garage cum ping pong room, which as you can see in one of the photos taken in the off-season, is absolutely crammed with stuff for the garden, but which otherwise would have room for one car.

    This garage is now storageplace for the tons of stuff the owners have bought for the garden, including a shaded swinging sofa, two sets of outdoor seating: one in plastic and the other a bit fancier with cushions and in metal, the ping pong table, and of course the 8 lounge chairs and the 3 parasols for poolside. Oh, and the barbecue on wheels is also in there, and this can be rolled to any spot in the garden for outdoor meals.



    the diningroom has direct access to kitchen and central living room Upstairs: Up the old-fashioned wood and tile staircase to the first floor you come out on the large central distributing room, 40m2 or more, same as downstairs, with a sofa and a couple of lounge chairs. To the left are two good-sized bedrooms, each with two single beds and a with private bathrooms, and all four bathrooms upstairs have bath with shower nozzle as well as the sink and bidet.

    Across the hall are the other three bedrooms, two of which are quite large, with two single beds and with private bathrooms. In between these two larger rooms is a small bedroom with a single bed and a door to the bathroom shared by the furthest of the two double rooms. The idea here is that a child can sleep here and share the bathroom with the parents sleeping on the other side of that bathroom. All four of the larger rooms are big enough to have extra beds put in, and there plenty of built in closests, bedside table with reading lamps, and windows looking out on the garden and surrounding countryside. I remember the room I stayed in had a writing desk as well.





    All in all, a very nice place, and if you are golfers or just like to be surrounded by greens, this house is very close to paradise. It is also close to the train station at Caldes de Malavella, 4 kms away, and only 12 kms south of Girona capital, and 15 kms inland from the beaches of the central Costa Brava. 75 kms to Barcelona staight down the AP-7 highway, so about 1 hour to city center.


    Many more photos below






    the downstairs central entryway is wide, airy, uncluttered... the kitchen has all the modern conveniences the rooms are of a good size and all are en suite and beds are singles that can be pushed together another bedroom, each room and bathroom has a different color scheme another bathroom we had all our breakfasts here we spent a lot of time playing beer ping pong behind the house

    Why inland farmhouse rental?

    Not only is it simply nicer to stay in an old restored farmhouse, but also …

    • eco-tourism helps preserve traditional ways of life
    • agro-tourism revitalizes depopulated villages
    • sustainable tourism controls the environmental impact (of tourism)
    • package tour operators leave little to nothing in local economy
    • mass tourism is an abomination - just look at so much of our coasts!
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