https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Work-Station.jpg
375
500
Christopher North
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/logo-almassera-vella-1.png
Christopher North2019-05-30 18:24:392019-05-30 18:25:48Retreats for Artists and Writers
The Almàssera Vella
The Old Olive Press, is located on the lip of a ravine on the edge of an ancient village in the Marina Baja mountains north of Alicante. The main house was for a hundred years or so an olive press serving three villages but it’s now converted into a large village house with copious space – designed to accommodate residential creative courses in creative writing, painting, cookery, yoga and mountain walking. Additional accommodation is provided by an annexe divided into a three room flat and a five roomed cottage all converted from a traditional village house.
The House
All in all there are ten bedrooms, eight bath or shower rooms, and copious living space with snug, dining room, country kitchen, library, living room plus study and two cloakrooms to the main house and five bedrooms, four shower rooms, two kitchens , two living-rooms and a study to the annexe.
The Grounds
The grounds include a sweeping terrace with palms, pepper and citrus trees , a swimming-pool, a terraced garden with steps winding down to an almond grove. On the other side of the ravine there is a small ‘Cottage Ornée’ ripe for conversion and the ruins of a Moorish farmhouse ready for redevelopment. There is a grove of 80 or so olive trees, and a lemon and an orange grove. Last year’s harvest produced 200 litres of Extra Virgin Olive oil, most of the crop sold to a local restaurant. We had daily fresh orange juice all Spring and lemons all year.
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Work-Station.jpg
375
500
Christopher North
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/logo-almassera-vella-1.png
Christopher North2019-05-30 18:24:392019-05-30 18:25:48Retreats for Artists and Writers
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/St-Pablo-Church-LR.jpg
1000
788
Christopher North
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/logo-almassera-vella-1.png
Christopher North2019-05-28 16:53:572019-05-28 16:53:57A Trip to Tabarca
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Pruned-Olive-trees-LR.jpg
411
800
Christopher North
https://oldolivepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/logo-almassera-vella-1.png
Christopher North2019-05-13 12:32:002019-05-13 12:32:00Spring in the Valero Grove
The Almàssera Vella
Carrer de la Mare de Deu del Miracle 56
Relleu 03578 Alicante, Spain
+34 966 856 003
Mobile: +34 655 592 851 and +34 647 083 424
Relleu is 50 minutes drive from Alicante City and airport.
It is twenty minutes drive from the fine beach at Villajoyosa.
Get in touch
Retreats for Artists and WritersMay 30, 2019 - 6:24 pmA number of writers and artists have taken advantage of our retreat space here this year. With access to our extensive library, Wi/fi, printing facilities available and a quiet corner of the village an easy walk from the village square bars, market and local shops – everything fits to give you peace and tranquility to […]
A Trip to TabarcaMay 28, 2019 - 4:53 pmOn 24th May we took a ferry over to Tabarca, an island off Cabo Santa Pola, Alicante. We can just see it on the horizon driving from Relleu to Alicante via Aguas de Busot. Formerly a roost for the aggressive Barbary pirates, the island has the remnants of a fortress citadel built in 1770 with […]
Spring in the Valero GroveMay 13, 2019 - 12:32 pmWe’ve just had our 80 or so olive trees in the Valero Grove expertly pruned. There is plenty of flower buds so we are hoping for a good harvest this Autumn, say 200 litres plus of Extra Virgin oil. The combination of blanqueta trees and the locally traditional Manzanilla trees produce a very pleasant […]