This Must Be The Place / Mas CasamitjanaEST. 2018

This Must Be The Place is the perfect spot for your dream Barcelona wedding or event. The house, the scenery and the incredible views create a truly stunning backdrop, and the choice of spaces for each element of your day will help to magnify all the magical moments as you celebrate with your family and friends. Looking for a beautiful and unique wedding and event venue near Barcelona? Look no further.

We have several event spaces in and around the house for you and your guests to enjoy, and they have all been designed to give you total freedom as to how and where you would like to experience individual elements of your day.

The centrepiece are our three lovingly restored conjoined barns ‘Els Graners’ that open out onto the central courtyard ‘El Barri’. The stairs and balcony lead you up to ‘L’Era’, our large floral yard, and the small but perfectly formed ‘Caseta del Sol’ (The Sun House). And down a few steps from here you’ll find our terrace garden ‘La Feixa’.

Say ‘I do’, eat, drink and dance – in or out (or shake it all about) – you decide.

The centuries-old 'Mas Casamitjana' has been lovingly refurbished in a Modern Rustic style. Our philosophy has been to respectfully restore what was old, and where we have added new features we have done so in a more modern style. So all the walls are the same rustic stone construction built by hand by incredibly skillful people 100s of years ago. The roofs needed to be almost completely replaced and we have done this as faithfully to the original constructions as possible.

The Barns (Els Graners) all face into an interior courtyard (El Barri) and we have installed 4 meter high modern bi-fold doors and windows here to let in lots of light, and also so we can open these all up and create one very large indoor/outdoor space. They look fantastic! The floor of El Barri features beautiful square hand-made tiles that would have originally been used for the farm's grain threshing floor (a long long time ago). Inside Els Graners we have two different types of flooring - in one part we have modern large format porcelain tiles with a subtle hexagonal imprint that were designed in Italy, and in the other part we have re-used some original rectangular terracotta tiles and arranged them in a herringbone formation.

The majestic stairs that lead up inside Els Graners feature a subtle irregular design detail to their railings, and the balcony they lead up to has a modern interpretation of a classic Catalan tile design on its underside (rectangular tiles where one diagonal corner is dipped in a white-coloured glaze, while the other half is left as natural terracotta). These tiles also feature on the underside of part of the roof in Els Graners. They look amazing!

Blue and terracotta versions of these tiles can also be found on the underside of the roof in La Caseta del Sol (The Sun House). And on the floor in this lovely space we have another type of Italian-designed porcelain tile that features a subtle 'fossil' imprint.

We worked with a very talented garden designer to choose the plants and flowers in our large garden yard (L'Era), and the results are spectacular! To complement this we re-used some old steel beams from an old farm building to create a triangular arch - which is perfect for wedding ceremonies - and also restored a large dry-stone wall. This area is completed some beautiful hand-made parasols that we commissioned and imported from Myanmar (Burma), and some magical festoon lighting that drapes from a central wooden pole reclaimed from the barn's original beams.

Talking of lighting... while the whole venue looks incredible in the sunshine by day, it truly comes alive at night! Externally, the festoon lighting in L'Era is complemented by subtle lighting that has been placed in all the flower beds to wash up the flowers and the stone walls behind them. Internally we have created some bespoke lighting installations including a pink neon This Must Be The Place sign, exposed LED filament bulbs in galvanised conduit housing, and a handmade birdcage pendant. Plus it is all capped off with a huge mirrorball for those late night disco moments!

The accommodation again follows the Modern Rustic style, with original wooden beams and some traditional furniture blending wonderfully with bespoke lighting features and carefully chosen fabrics and prints.