The Attic at Beautiful Alamedas
The Attic at Beautiful Alamedas is part of an author's house in Spain and it is a spacious and luminous area of nearly one hundred square metres, conceived as a place for quiet togetherness and inner retreat. It is accessed from the inner courtyard, via the staircase that connects the shared life of the ground floor with a more elevated and secluded dimension of the house.
In the past, this was the place where Valeriana — our Señora Vale — stored food for the long winters. Today it still preserves that material memory: the wood, the generous proportions, and an old kitchen area that remains as a vestige of the space's original use. It is no longer operational, but integrated as part of its history rather than as a functional cooking area.
The Attic at Beautiful Alamedas
The attic at Beautiful Alamedas offers several well-defined areas: a resting space with four beds, a bathroom with a bathtub, and a sitting-dining area centred around a large antique walnut table, conceived for unhurried conversation and shared moments. There are also bookshelves with novels, poetry, essays and books in different languages, together with a small collection of films that invite guests to slow down and linger.
It is a space that children immediately recognise as their own, yet it also welcomes adults into a serene experience of living together, far from noise and excessive activity. It is not a place for intensive use, but one to inhabit with care and respect.
The attic appears in the novel The God of the Green Valleys, and some of its passages resonate here as an echo of the spirit that sustains Beautiful Alamedas: a house conceived for memory, light and encounters that leave a lasting imprint.
