The foundations of the house were built over 500 years ago. Although the developments are hardly comprehensible from today’s perspective, remnants of historic water pipes, spring sockets and stone terraces bear witness to the colorful history. The Alharía served beyond the agriculture as a local center – in the 1970s, for example, a teacher came to the finca to teach the children of the surrounding farms.
The Alharía came into family ownership in 1984 when our father Homayun bought the finca. The Alharía was at that time partly fallen to ruins. In 1995, a large-scale forest fire destroyed two-thirds of the forest, which was reforested with government support and volunteers. The animal husbandry was suspended after the large-scale forest fire to allow the regrowth of the forest. Before that, a herd of goats with up to 50 goats lived in our forests.
Since January 2019, the finca is in a transitional phase and house and farm were handed over to the next generation and reorganized.
