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LA VILA D'ARGENÇOLA
Updated: 01/14/2024
Carretera BP-4313 Km 52,4
08251
Castellnou de Bages
Barcelona
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Location: (GPS latitude: 41.859082 longitude: 1.793625) 1 hour-drive from Barcelona city, near Montserrat, at 403m above sea level, in the north of Castellnou de Bages town (Barcelona), at the foot of the BP-4313 road between Súria and Balsareny.
If something characterizes La Vila d'Argençola is the variety of attractions it has.
It is a forest estate (Mediterranean forest: pine, oak, holm oak, strawberry tree, juniper, rosemary scrub, thyme, mints, ...) and agricultural land with a large manor house, the result of successive extensions since its original construction (probably from the end of the tenth century), the most important in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
The main house, reformed a the beginnings of the XX century, is a modernist house with stained-glass windows of Catalan workshops reproducing figurative scenes and geometric and agricultural motifs, the peculiar German stained-glass (1921), the balconies and windows with arches of various shapes and other modernist ornaments on the roofs. Physical memory of the eighteenth-century farmhouse is the stone stairway access interrupted at the centre by a rectangular block, at the end of which three semi-circular arches are placed towards the original door with stone jambs and lintel. The portal houses a wine press and adorning the outer side, next to the garage doors, stand out a press plate, a large stone tub and the counterweight of a torcular. All the openings of the ground floor are arched and outlined with outcoming solid brick painted reddish. Crowning this volume at the level of the first floor, a large passable terrace of some 300m2 of variable widths offers its greatest exposure to the south. This and the upper floor show geminated windows of neo-Gothic style. The structure is finished off with battlements and a cornice of vitrified tiles.
The distribution of the original eighteenth-century cellars is dominated by the need for storage and aging of wine, so in its galleries wineries, vats and garages are installed.
Around the large house, buildings of variable dimensions are organized, highlighting the impressive building of the old sheep