The Schoolteacher’s House
Vilavedelle is located at the shore of the Eo estuary, a small tranquil hamlet where The Schoolteacher’s House is ready to welcome you.
This simple house with a traditional “hórreo” (a typical granary from this part of Spain) aims to become a shelter for your mind and soul. From its windows, nature invites you to get immersed in the blue of the estuary and the green of the woods and the hills.
It consists of two buildings: the Casa Grande (Big House) and El Pajar (The Haystack). Both combined can accommodate up to 14 guests.
La Casa de la Maestra has been lovingly renovated, with two aims:
- A meeting place to rethink the school, a space for teachers to get further training, to discuss education, to learn, chat, share experiences and keep on growing.
- A place to enjoy rural tourism with friends and family, as a means to fund the point above.
This is a unique space, warm and cozy, which aims to prompt ways to improve the world of education, whilst being a meeting point in constant renovation. Through this webpage, we’d like to share with you all those reasons that will make you look forward to being here.
(painting by Luis Benito)
Why La Casa de la Maestra?
Castropol is the village where my grandmother Luz was born. Together with her sister Luisa, her nephew Jaime and Gabriel, my father, they founded a school, Colegio San Patricio, in Madrid.
Even though it is dedicated mainly to my parents, The Schoolteacher’s House is an homage to all of them, to all those people that have contributed to make us understand that education is not one of many ways but the only way to make the world a better place.
The first inspiration comes hand in hand with our own history, and from multiple readings of the “Pedagogical Missions” by Giner and Cossío.
Three main reasons overlap in this project:
- Our Asturian ascendance and our tight and special link with the Eo estuary
- Our experience with San Patricio, our family’s educational project
- The educational vocation and the postulates of the men and women that conformed the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Independent Educational Institution)
‘Being a Teacher means to educate and give wings to the wishes that exist, embryonic, in every nascent consciousness”, Julio Cortázar.
