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Can Buch

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FarmhouseVall de LlémenaUp to 6 guests

Can Buch

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The place

Built in 1621. Fallen in.
Carried back up the hill
by three hundred people.

Can Buch sits at the end of a forest road above the Vall de Llémena, in the hills between Girona and Olot, with no mains electricity, no water pipe and no sewer. The masía dates from 1621 and was a scatter of stone when Gerard Bofill found it. Over three years, more than three hundred people rebuilt it: volunteers, neighbours, local artisans, travellers passing through.

It opened on 8 July 2020. Eight people live and work here now, and the house runs on its own sun, rain and wood. There are twelve rooms and a separate apartment, a biopool cleaned by plants, a hammam, and a plant-based restaurant cooking what the garden produced that week. Arrive at midday and nobody meets you at a desk. Lunch is being made. You can hear it.

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What’s included

Hammam

Natural pool

Outdoor bath

Spa

Yoga

Cycling routes

Hiking trails

Valley views

Cooking classes

Farm-to-table meals

Family-friendly

Farm animals

Solar power

Step inside

Twelve rooms and an apartment

Off-grid masía, built 1621

Vall de Llémena, La Garrotxa, Girona

Gerard Bofill

Founder · Vall de Llémena

Meet the hosts

Gerard, who found the worst building in the best place

Gerard Bofill came up through youth football in Barcelona, as a coordinator and director, with an INEF degree alongside. At twenty-two he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his right leg, and it came back three times. He moved to Girona, then spent four years in a small farmhouse in the countryside, reading several hundred books on soil, food and health. Then, out walking, he found Can Buch.

“I discovered a lifestyle that cured me, that did me good.”

A note from Solwyn

We spent an afternoon at Can Buch playing pétanque in the sun with people we had met an hour earlier. We ate Fede's tortilla, which took him a year and a half to get right. We didn't get to his beer. That's the reason for the next visit.

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What you'll find

Three hundred pairs of hands

Stone found on site, clay, timber, ceramic and lime, laid by hand with no chemical products in the fabric. Volunteers learned on the job from whoever had learned it the week before. Geobiology and feng shui set the orientation. Food sovereignty decided where the gardens went.

A pool that works like a river

The biopool is built like a river running into a lake, kept clean by plants and microorganisms rather than salt or chlorine. The hammam is made from stone and handmade ceramic taken out of the masía itself, so nothing that came out of the building left the hill.

The garden orders lunch

The restaurant is plant-based and km0, open to people who aren't staying, and cooks mostly what the garden and the farm produced that week. What's left goes to compost, and back into the beds.

Off the grid

Photovoltaic panels feed battery banks. Rainwater is filtered through sand and gravel, pumped uphill by solar and runs back down under its own weight, which is why the pressure is good. Heat comes from wood thinned from their own forest.

Guest words

“The experience was amazing: everything is perfectly designed and thought, the food is delicious, the "biobassa" is a magical place, the people are incredibly warm and the kid had a blast in the tour around the farm. Will come back for sure. Thank you Gerard and all the team!”

— Laura (via Google Maps)

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Twelve rooms and an apartment, each named for something that lives around the house.

From170 €/ night

Final price depends on your dates and room · Free cancellation until 14 days before arrival

What’s included

HammamNatural poolOutdoor bathSpaYogaCycling routesHiking trailsValley viewsCooking classesFarm-to-table mealsFamily-friendlyFarm animalsSolar power

Can Buch runs off-grid on solar, rainwater and wood from its own forest. Ask anyone on the team and they will show you how it works, from the roof to the sand filter.

Cancellation

Free cancellation until 14 days before arrival.

After that, cancelling or not showing up costs the first night. If your hosts have to cancel, you get everything back. How cancellations work

October 2026

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Getting there

Finding Can Buch.

Can Buch is in the Vall de Llémena, six kilometres from the nearest village, in the hills between Girona and Olot. From Girona, follow the valley road west through Sant Gregori toward Sant Esteve de Llémena; the last stretch is a forest road that ends at the house. There is parking on site. The team sends exact directions when you book.

Address: Mas Can Buch, s/n (veïnat La Barroca), 17154 Sant Aniol de Finestres, Girona, Spain.

Vall de Llémena · Girona

Good to know

Before you book.

Twelve rooms and a separate apartment, in stone, timber and Catalan vaulting, several with terraces facing the mountains. Each is named for something that lives around the house: the chestnut, the holm oak, the hazel, the kingfisher.

A biopool, built to work like a river running into a lake and cleaned by plants and microorganisms rather than salt or chlorine. There is also a hammam inside the masía.

The restaurant is plant-based and km0, cooks mostly from the garden and farm, and is open to people who aren't staying.

Yes. Solar panels and batteries for power, rainwater filtered through sand and gravel, heat and hot water from wood thinned from their own forest. Ask, and someone will walk you through it.

Children are welcome. There is a farm with animals, a vegetable garden, a mini tennis court and ping-pong.

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Want to know which room faces the mountains, whether there's a table for lunch, or how the water gets uphill? Ask us.

Can Buch

Gerard, who found the worst building in the best place

Three hundred pairs of hands

A pool that works like a river

The garden orders lunch

Off the grid

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