A rural accommodation farmhouse
Located in Alhama de Granada
First inhabited as an Arab settlement, where cereals and flour were produced, olives and almonds were grown and it was a place where people came to collect water.
After the Castilian conquest in 1482, the cortijo was inhabited by families that for centuries were dedicated to agriculture and animal farming. We know that the cortijo was refurbished to a certain extent after the damage suffered by the earthquake of 25 December 1884.
Then it was also extended to accommodate a growing family. Maintenance work took place up to 1964 when the last resident family left the cortijo to move to the nearby village of Santa Cruz, when a school opened and the government built some dwellings for the farming community to live in an urban area.
Up to then, the people who lived in the cortijo survived for centuries in precarious conditions, without sanitation, running water or electricity. The water from the well was extracted by hand, using a bucket.
Once the last settlers left the country life behind, the cortijo started to suffer considerable deterioration, abandonment and fell into disrepair. Then, in 2006, the current owners saw the beauty of this architectural ruin which was near the point of falling beyond repair and fell in love with it, deciding to buy it. Its beauty, location, potential and history were factors which helped them make their decision.

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