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a dream villa in spain

What makes a dream villa? Everyone's dream villa is different, but northern Spain offers enough choice to satisfy most ...

dream villa in northern spain

If location is important then you can choose between countryside, mountains and coastline; small wild beaches or built-up resorts. The properties themselves cover traditional farmhouse villas and country houses to modern villas with all amenities, often with pools and easy access to white sandy beaches.

Dream villas in Spain – a land apart

northern Spain

Northern Spain is a region of contrasts – different languages, cultures, landscapes and, in some places, more than a hint of magic and superstition, says Lesley Fox.

Mist had long swallowed up the valleys and vast tracts of forest as darkness fell. Waves of jagged inky peaks stood in the gathering gloom. It was as if we had tumbled on a lost world. The silence was all consuming.

Then, unbelievably, we heard the piercing sound of a flute. Half afraid to break the spell, we followed the sound to a low, thatched shelter in a clearing. On a bench a shepherd was playing a crude wooden pipe.

He looked up as we approached but continued to play ever faster. Then he turned, and gesticulated towards the forests.

"Los demonios nocturnos de la montana" – mountain demons of the night, he said, as if by way of explanation.

"When I play they will not come."

We never did discover which demons were being appeased, but the incident shows that in some places, northern Spain is still a land of dreams, legend and magic.

’On one memorable occasion I even had my foot massaged with ointment after limping in pain into a village bar’