House located in the Barranco de Huerta de Torremanzanas area

Description

This is an estate covering 23 hectares, renovated in 1987, located just 6 kilometers from the village of Torremanzanas (Alicante). The estate is completely self-sufficient, as it has its own well and solar panels with a wind generator. The house spans two floors with a total area of 435 m², including living spaces, a veranda, and a garage. On the ground floor there is a spacious entrance hall, which also serves as a hall leading into the house, a garage with a machine room and an exit to the rear terrace. The house has a laundry room and pantry, a toilet with shower, an office with a small veranda, an open-plan kitchen with dining area, a living room-dining room with a fireplace and an exit to a glazed terrace facing west, as well as a staircase leading to the second floor. On the second floor there is 1 bedroom with built-in wardrobes and a bathroom with a bathtub, 3 double bedrooms with built-in wardrobes, 1 bathroom with a shower, and a single bedroom with an exit to a terrace facing east. From the living room on the ground floor you can exit to the glazed terrace, and from there to an open terrace with a barbecue and wood-burning oven. From here you can also access a vegetable garden with an automatic irrigation system, a mini-golf course, a children's playground, a swimming pool with easily accessible external filtration unit and thermal cover, a chicken coop, and fruit trees: cherry, apple, apricot, peach, pear, medlar, orange, tangerine, and persimmon. At various points on the property there are benches strategically placed to enjoy beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding environment. The overall flooring is clay-colored tiles, walls are smooth, external carpentry is aluminum with double glazing and mosquito nets, internal carpentry is wooden. Hot water and the kitchen run on butane gas from cylinders. Heating is provided by pellet stoves, with 4 units installed and distributed throughout the house. There are also thermal accumulators and towel rails that operate using energy produced by the solar panels. The house has its own certified and legalized well with plumbing, equipped with pool filters, through which water is supplied to the house's water tank using a hydraulic pump. There is also a rainwater collection system from the roofs into 8 containers of 500 liters each. Electricity is supplied by solar panels with a wind generator and a battery. All of this is automated, though it is also connected to the main grid. The 23-hectare estate consists of several plots of varying sizes with diverse vegetation, such as almond trees, olives, pine plantations, and shrubs. The estate is fully operational, and both olives (averaging 4000 kg per year with an oil yield of around 800 liters) and almonds of the Marcona and Mollar varieties are harvested. Torremanzanas is a quiet village in the interior of Alicante, approximately 40 minutes from Campello and its beaches. The surrounding area consists of medium mountains (800 meters above sea level), with abundant trees, agricultural land, and incredibly natural scenery. Ideal for nature lovers. All necessary basic services are available (bakeries, bars, restaurants, bank, medical center, butcher's shop, supermarket, market, etc.) and there are around 800 residents. It is easily accessible from the Jijona regional road.

Details

Address

Torremanzanas, Alicante, 03108

Type

Villa

Floor

2

Year built

1987

Features

About Torremanzanas

Foto: bladimiro

Torremanzanas, mountain Costa Blanca just above Alicante

Torremanzanas, or la Torre de les Maçanes in Valencian, is an inland village in the province of Alicante, sitting at around 790 metres in the foothills of the Carrasqueta and the Aitana range. It lies about 40 kilometres from the city, a little under an hour by mountain road, yet the pace here belongs to another world: barely seven hundred and fifty residents, clean air and summers that stay cooler than on the coast. This is the Costa Blanca few people picture, the one of closed valleys, almond trees and quiet.

Mountains, woodland and trails

The municipality unfolds across a narrow valley cut by the Torremanzanas ravine, among slopes of pine and holm oak. From spots such as Els Plans and El Rentonar the views run out towards Aitana, Puig Campana and, on clear days, the sea. This is walking country: paths climbing to the ridges, old tracks between farmhouses and open night skies where the stars come out far brighter than down below. For anyone after nature close to Alicante, this corner delivers.

The Aitana range from Els Plans, Torremanzanas. Photo: bladimiro / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The tower, the ice and the stone

The village takes its name from the Casa Alta, an Almohad tower from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that still watches over the old quarter. Beside it, the church of Santa Ana, built in the late sixteenth century, anchors the centre with its bell tower. Higher up in the sierra stands the Pozo de la Nieve, one of the old snow wells, or neveras, where winter ice was once stored to be carried down to the city. Steep lanes, whitewashed houses and bare stone round out a place best explored slowly.

The church of Santa Ana at the end of a village street. Photo: 19Tarrestnom65 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Festivals and country cooking

Life here follows the calendar of the fiestas. San Gregorio in May, Santa Ana in late July and the Assumption in mid August fill the streets with music, fireworks and old friends. The cooking is mountain and dryland fare: almonds, olive oil and whatever the gardens and the hills give, with local sierra honey as a small treasure. People eat unhurried and talk in the square, which is already half the party.

Getting there and around

You reach Torremanzanas by mountain road, with Xixona as the natural gateway towards Alicante and Alcoi on the far side of the range. A car is your best ally: in under an hour you are in the city, at its airport or on the beaches of El Campello and San Juan, and coming home means a quiet village waiting. That double life, mountains to live in and the coast within reach, is much of its appeal.

Buying in Torremanzanas

Here we have a country house in the Barranc de l'Horta area, for anyone who wants land, stone and a wide horizon without straying far from Alicante. If a village or country home in the Alicante mountains appeals to you, and you are looking around here, let's talk.