Masia Egara

Masia Egara is a country estate in Terrassa, about 25 km north of Barcelona, on the Rellinars road. At its centre is an early 16th-century masia, a classic Catalan farmhouse, kept in excellent condition and full of art and furniture gathered over the centuries, from old tapestries to modern pieces.

Around the house are four hectares of century-old gardens, laid out by the school of the landscape architect Rubió i Tudurí and regarded as one of the region's finest surviving private gardens. Beyond them run some 300 hectares of farmland and forest, so the setting feels properly rural while Barcelona stays close.

Masia Egara presents itself as a venue for weddings near Barcelona, with its own weddings team and phone line, and it points to its gardens, halls and Modernist architecture as the setting for the day. The house and its historic gardens are the natural backdrop for a ceremony and a long evening outdoors.

The estate hosts weddings of up to 250 guests. Ask the team where the ceremony and dinner can take place, whether the ceremony can be civil, religious or symbolic, catering and the music curfew.

Ask the team whether there are any rooms on the estate. For most weddings, plan on guests staying in Terrassa or in Barcelona, 25 km to the south, with transport laid on for the day.

That makes it easy to turn the wedding into a long weekend, with a couple of days in Barcelona either side and a short drive out to the estate for the celebration. Ask the team about transfer times from Barcelona airport and the coach access to the house.