Magnificent 1200m2 mansion, 35+ guests, 17 BR & 16 BA, huge pool, terraces, view

-17 bedrooms & 16 bathrooms, sleeps 40 or so guests. -13 double beds and 16 single beds & cots for babies -3 independent living quarters in 2 different houses (1200 m2) on the same huge property (15 hectare). -flat 1: 10 bedrooms and 8 baths; flat 2: 4 triple en suite bedrooms, flat 3: 3 en suite bedrooms. Plus 2 WCs. -each flat fully equipped with full kitchen (washer + dishwasher), living/dining rooms (fireplace + TV + stereo), outdoor seating with BBQ, hair dryers in the bathrooms, etc. -central heating. Wi-Fi ADSL. Large 120 m2 game room, football pitch with goalposts, ping pong. -altitude: 200 m, 35 km to sea, 2 km to town, 4 km to a dozen supermarkets in Banyoles. -check with me for extra help in cleaning and cooking -5 km to Banyoles lake and all kinds of sports, pedalos, rowing, tennis, bike rental, horsebackriding. -20 km to the Golf Club of Girona, 5 other golf courses nearby. -large kidney-shaped pool, 70 m3, over 70,000 liters of water! Roman steps, gradually deepening, good for kids & the elderly. Overview: At last a property where you can really say "the more the merrier!" Mas Dalt is unique. Situated on a huge 15-hectare (over 37 acres) hillside wooded property with great views, Mas Dalt offers three different fully independent and spacious living quarters, each with its own kitchen, living room, terrace, etc. (There are a total of 13 double beds and 17 single beds.) For extra-large groups, keep in mind that 12-bedroom Can Tapies is only a 10-minute walk away. Situated 4 kms east of Banyoles beautiful old town and lake, 2 km walk to Camós, 35 km inland from the Costa Brava beaches, this is an ideal area for holiday-makers. I have been representing the owners of this house since 1998. They are a wonderful family, salt of the earth local dairy farmers yet worldly, well-travelled, and very discreet. They live in a similarly huge mansion just down the hill from Mas Dalt and are on hand if you need, but otherwise keep to themselves. The last major restauration of the houses was in 2004, when they got licensed for 17 bedrooms and 34+ guests by putting in three distinct living areas. While guests at this house have plenty of common areas with which to enjoy activities and meals together when they want to, the 3 apartments are fully independent of one another, each with full kitchen (including dishwasher & washing machine) and dining/living room (including TV & stereo), and each apartment has its own outdoor seating & BBQ area. The 10 bedroom part of the main house has a huge living room (about 120 m2) and a large dining room where everyone in all three apartments can have indoor meals together. Outdoors there are two places all guests can have meals together: the very handsome 130 m2 covered wooden-beamed terrace overlooking the pool, and well as a porch under stone arches with BBQ and picnic benches, both beautifully lit for outdoor meals, day and night. The owners have had the private road up to Mas Dalt paved recently. The road ends at Mas Dalt and no through traffic. However, it is a nice short walk to the 12thC church of Santa Maria de Camós. In front of the house there is plenty of parking. Between the two houses is the nice high-ceiling arched bbq area with bench seating for all guests. The grounds are attractive. The views magnificent! Here is the detailed run down on the bedroom and bathroom distribution, by apartment: The main upstairs 10 bedroom duplex: Let´s start with the main floor, level 1: the kitchen here is the least modern and most beautiful of the three kitchens at Mas Dalt, but is more than made up for by having lots of character, including a very convenient large old-fashioned cold-storage closet dating from the 1920s that still works, beautiful wooden doors and copper handles and all!. The kitchen also has another modern refrigerator, an old marble sink, a gas stove and oven, a microwave, expresso machine, a dishwasher, a large fireplace, and there is a food prep area where you can sit down and there is a huge collection of glasses and plates. Beyond the kitchen is the dining room with four red-checkered cloth covered tables seating 8 or 9 guests each, set around another fireplace, and with windows affording nice views across the Pla de Estany out towards the sea. There is a pantry and wash and ironing room just off the dining room with another fridge and a full bathroom which doesn't get much use as all the rooms around here have private bath. Around this dining room are three bedrooms: • Bedroom 1) with one double bed (150x190cm) and private bathroom with shower • Bedroom 2) with 2 small double beds (135x190cm) and a private bathroom with shower • Bedroom 3) with 1 double bed (200x190cm) and a private bathroom with shower Just off the kitchen and four steps up are three more bedrooms at the end of a hallway: • Bedroom 4) with two single beds (90x190cm) - can be pushed together to make a large double • Bedroom 5) smaller room (good for kids) with two single beds (90x190cm) • * the hallway bathroom with half-sized bathtub • Bedroom 6) with double bed (150x190cm) and a small balcony and nice views. Level 2: Upstairs from the vestibule is the huge living room divided into five different sitting areas, one around the TV (digital TV, about 30 channels, original language option available), another sitting area around the DVD player and stereo (with CD, radio, and cassette), and other sofas and card tables scattered around the huge wood-paneled and heavily beamed room. Off the main living room is the only bedroom on this floor: • Bedroom 7) a large room with double bed (150x200cm) and private bathroom with half-bath. This room is just above Bedroom 1). Just like on the floor below, off the kitchen, there are four steps up off the living room to a hallway leading to 3 bedrooms and a bathroom on your left: • Bedroom 8) with two single beds (90x190cm) - can be pushed together to make a double • Bedroom 9) smallish (good for kids) room with two single beds (90x190cm) • the hallway bathroom with half-sized bathtub • Bedroom 10) larger room with two single beds (90x190cm) and nice balcony. Level -1: Downstairs of main house: The downstairs part of the house can be reach either 1) from the ancient and atmospheric flagstone spiral staircase down from near the kitchen upstairs, or 2) from the large stone-arched main entrance downstairs, or 3) from a side entrance beyond the large downstairs dining room, with a bbq outside. The downstairs 3-bedroom part of Mas Dalt is like a well-proportioned private apartment, somewhat darker than the more luminous upstairs rooms, but not at all unpleasant, and also a lot cooler in summer than the upstairs rooms (which can be kept cool only if you remember to keep the shutters closed during the day, keeping the sun out, and opening up when it is cool outside at night. The massive nearly meter-thick stone walls will do the rest.) So, the spiral staircase down from the upstairs vestibule leaves you in front of the huge downstairs door in the downstairs hallway. To one side, there are two bedrooms: • - Bedroom 11) with double bed (150x190cm) and bathroom with shower • - Bedroom 12) with one double bed (150x190cm) and two single beds (90x190) and bathroom with half-bath On the other side of the long downstairs hallway is the central kitchen/living/dining room, measuring a good 50 m2 under a gorgeous stone and brick vaulted ceiling. The modern kitchen has a double sink, a dishwasher, refrigerator, stove top and microwave, but no oven. Up 6 steps from the kitchen is another large and mostly empty 30 m2 living room, also under vaulted ceilings, barely furnished, with a table seating 6 and a small wicker sofa seating two. Just off this living room there is the third downstairs bedroom • bedroom 13) room with double bed (150x190cm) • - and next door a bathroom with shower A door leads outside where the hillside is terraced and there is some seating and a barbecue and an old marble sink with tap water... The new 4 bedroom house: The newly restored, spacious, and well-appointed stone house backs the swimming pool and has a huge terrace of 130 m2 overlooking the pool and coastal plain below. The views are magnificent, completely unspoiled panoramas of checkered fields and church spires showing where little villages dot the landscape. This fully independent house is divided into two "L"-shaped floors, the kitchen, dining room, and living room and a small WC on the main floor, and the bedrooms below, somewhat underground to keep them cool in summer, but each with windows for natural sunlight. Upstairs: the modern kitchen has a fridge, dishwasher, electric oven and hob, double sink, washing machine, microwave, etc. Next door the dining room has seating for 12, and after that, the living room has a TV and CD/radio/cassette player, the speakers are out on the terrace, and there is a little WC in the hallway with toilet and sink - no shower. This is the 16th bathroom at Mas Dalt! Doors from the living and dining room lead out to the terrace. Downstairs: 4 bedrooms, each with private bathroom, all these bedrooms have 1 double bed and 1 single bed: • bedrooms 14, 15 & 16) each one with one double bed (150x190cm) and one single bed (90x190cm) and private bathroom with shower • bedroom 17) with one double bed (150x190cm) and one single bed (90x190cm) and private bathroom with bathtub You may have noticed that the description of the layout adds up to beds for 42 guests: 13 double beds, 16 single beds, and this doesn't even take into account the cots for babies and a couple of fold outs kept in the huge living room upstairs I'm running out of room here. I wanted to give more of a description of the grounds and the pool area, with its different sitting areas under parasols, with a WC and changing room so that you don't have to go indoors to go.... but I've run out of room. Let me know if you have any questions...