JARDÍN DE LA FINCA CASA DE FERRAZ

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Mutxamel is home to excellent historic heritage sites like Casa y Torre Ferraz.

If you’re spending some time in Mutxamel in the province of Alicante, before too long you are sure to reach Plaza San Roque. Here you will see a tower attached to a house and a garden protected by a cast-iron gate. You are standing in front of Casa Ferraz in Mutxamel.

Casa Ferraz is the ancestral home of the marquis of Amposta, the Ferraz Alcalá Galiano family. The most iconic element of the structure is the tower, whose purpose was to defend Mutxamel from pirate and Berber attacks.

Built in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the defence tower has a number of small windows and a gargoyle on the southern façade that provides drainage from the roof. It has a square plan and is one-of-a-kind in the Alicante agricultural land as its base is made of mortar while the rest is masonry.

On the ground floor of Casa Ferraz is a hall with two arches and a number of rooms. One of these was previously used as a winery and another used for agricultural drying purposes. The stairs lead up to the first floor where there is a kitchen and a living room which gives direct access to Jardín de Santa Elena, the garden, via a flight of stairs attached to the façade. On the second floor there are bedrooms and a terrace.

Jardín de Santa Elena is part of Casa y Torre Ferraz. A beautiful 19th century claustral garden, it is full of pines, laurels, olive trees, acacia, elms and a huge ficus tree. Come and take a look around Casa Ferraz, an excellent example of Mutxamel’s heritage that we want to conserve.