A Six-Bedroom L-Shaped House in Eastern Spain
$1.97 MILLION (1.963 MILLION EUROS)
With Montgó mountain as its backdrop, this six-bedroom, five-bath house sits on 4.9 landscaped acres in the Montgó-Ermita section of Jávea, a former fishing village and now resort town in Spain’s popular Costa Blanca region.
Completed in 2000, the house was designed by its current owner, an architect, with extensive use of natural wood, open spaces and plant-laden terraces. The L-shaped structure frames an in-ground pool, and most of the living takes place on the ground floor.
“It has a colonial feel about it,” said listing agent Natashcha Freitag of Lucas Fox, the Spanish luxury agency in partnership with Savills of England. “You step onto this property and you think, ‘I could be in Bali.’ It’s an oasis of calm.”
The main house has five bedrooms; four line one long passage, ending with the primary bedroom suite, which has sliding doors out to the grassy yard and pool area. The three other guest bedrooms face a corridor, each with sliding doors leading to a boardwalk lined with bamboo and other tropical plantings. A fifth bedroom by the kitchen is en suite.
The traditional eat-in kitchen has an outdoor wood deck. Above the kitchen is a one-bedroom guest apartment with its own entrance.
The open living and dining space has a barrel-beam vaulted ceiling and a two-story travertine marble fireplace, and it’s lined with sliding doors that open to a long covered terrace facing the pool. A curved wood staircase climbs to a lofted area that can serve as a lounge or office.
The south-facing house sits at the base of Montgó Massif, the highest peak in this part of Spain. The Montgó, known locally as “the Elephant,” is a designated nature reserve with hiking trails and hundreds of plant and animal species.
The flat property is unusual for this coastal area, which juts into the Mediterranean Sea, and where many houses are built along the hillsides and rocky cliffs. Along with the tropical plants and palm trees, the property includes an olive grove, a pine forest, and cypress, orange and lemon trees. A 295-foot-deep well and irrigation system provide self-sustained maintenance for the grounds, which are enclosed and include an electric gate and alarm system.
Located at the northern end of Alicante Province’s Costa Blanca, in the Community of Valencia, Jávea offers Mediterranean beaches and a port, and it sits across the Montgó range from Denia, a major port town…
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