The farmhouse life
It is from the Middle Ages when farmhouses were the backbone of the old Catalonia. The multitude of farmhouses scattered throughout the territory and the people who inhabited them and cultivated the land defined the country’s identity. A thousand years later, the farmhouses are no longer the center of economic activity, not much less, but with some exceptions, as is the case of Mas Vicenç.
“We are not the ones who own the land, it is the land that has made us the way we are. But we need to renew to be able to continue, and we don’t look at the past to see how we move forward”, said our friend Jean Sales.
This is how in 1954 and with 90 years old, the farmer Vicenç Ferré becomes the owner of the farmhouse due to the loss without offspring of the former owner of the farmhouse. And so begins the small story of a closely-knit family to the agriculture.
51 years later, the wine revolution was born, becoming the main manufacturing activity and occupying many spaces inside the current Catalan farmhouse. If our ancestors could see it, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t believe it.
It is simply a pride to continue this family legacy around the farmhouse and the lands that surround it, observing a present and future full of life in Mas Vicenç.
Long live to the farmhouses (“Masías”) and rural life!
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