Cortijada Los Gázquez

Cortijada Los Gázquez

Cortijada Los Gázquez is a family refuge far from the noise of any city or town. Here the night sky is unpolluted by metropolitan light. On summer nights you can gaze at the stars for hours.

In the daytime the air is hot and suffused with the pungent scent of pine trees. This is semi wilderness, a vast alpine desert caught in the rain shadow of the Cordillera Baetica. With an average rainfall of 400mm skies are nearly always blue and sunlight is bountiful. Winters are short and can be cold whilst summers are long and hot appearing to compress spring and autumn into smaller seasons.

The combination of all these elements has made Los Gázquez an ideal location to exploit the natural resources which are so abundant here. Resources necessary to create power to a place remote and fully independent from the grid.

However, at Cortijada Los Gázquez, being environmentally and socially responsible needn't compromise one’s love of design.

These were once five old farm houses, a cortijada, now converted into one very beautiful space. On the one hand great homage and respect has been given in it's restoration to the simple vernacular architecture of the building, and on the other hand a crisp eye for detail has been employed which makes the place seem stunningly modern.

Here you will find uncomplicated luxury with minimal intent. And here you will find peace of mind, body and spirit in far more profound ways than the phrase was intended.