Finca La Providencia or Candal

The La Providencia or Candal farm is located in the area of ​​La Condomina, surrounded by streets that lead nowhere, we find this 18th century farm. Originally it was a typical farmhouse from the Alicante Huerta, but later it became a residential home. For this reason, numerous reforms had to be carried out, the last being in the eighties of the 20th century.

The house is made up of a series of bodies that are added to the whole, with different heights and covers depending on the uses of each piece. On the main façade, the semicircular arch that forms the entrance stands out. To the west is the old winery and drying room; The first was a room with two naves, and the second had two floors, whose “facade to the west is the largest, forming its riu-rau enclosures,” as the architect Santiago Varela described to us. Of the house, the 18th century carpentry, the hydraulic flooring in the hall and the stairs, and some locksmith work from past centuries stand out.

To the south-east and west there is a significant pine forest that partially hides the house. From Capiscol Avenue the protagonists are the pine trees, the palm trees, the jacarandas, the cypresses, a historic carob tree, along with bougainvilleas, oleanders and celestinas that appear over the little white fence of ceramic rasillas. Sheltered by bougainvillea, there is still an entrance to the property, in the “no man’s land” that has remained between the limits of the property and a recently created avenue called Conrado Albaladejo.