Scattered across a hillside in the Solsonès comarca of inland Catalonia, a cluster of medieval stone agricultural buildings — a masia and its outbuildings, their rough-coursed granite walls and arched ground-floor openings intact — were converted into La Vella Farga, a rural hotel that refuses to soften the austerity of its source material. The restoration preserved the original masonry with conspicuous fidelity: dry-stone terrace walls descend the slope in the same language as the buildings above, ancient olive trees anchor the grounds, and the arched openings at ground level now frame glazed screens rather than wooden barn doors, letting the interior glow read against the stone at dusk without altering the structural grammar. Inside, the approach shifts register — not toward minimalism, but toward a kind of cultivated Catalan romanticism. Exposed timber roof trusses and wide-plank oak floors provide the structural backdrop against which the furnishings make their argument: wrought-iron four-poster beds, gilded Baroque mirror cartouches mounted in pairs, crystal chandeliers, and velvet settees in deep aubergine. The restaurant carries the same vocabulary into a more disciplined space, grey-painted walls and bleached timber beams setting off Louis XVI-style medallion chairs and a long communal table beneath cage pendant lights. Beyond the buildings, an infinity pool cantilevered over forested hills delivers the property's sharpest contrast — polished concrete coping and still water against an unbroken canopy of Pyrenean oak.

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