Camino de Playa

Camino de Playa is on the Costa da Vela, a stretch of wild, protected coast on the Morrazo peninsula in Galicia, the green northwest corner of Spain. It's a quiet, salty part of the country: pine and granite headlands, a long sandy beach a walk away, coastal paths along Cabo Home, and the Cíes Islands, some of the best beaches in Spain, a boat ride out. This is the Rías Baixas, so the seafood is as good as it gets, and the fish markets nearby are worth a trip on their own.

The house was a nineteenth-century wine bodega, a ruin the London architect Jamie Fobert and his partner found on a hike in 2004. It took them twelve years to buy and rebuild, finishing in 2017. From outside it looks traditional, all granite; inside it's clean and modern. The heart of it is a courtyard behind high walls, an open-air room with an outdoor kitchen, a dining table and an infinity pool that spills down one side, with three big frameless openings looking through to the main house. Granite walls, chestnut ceilings and a barrel-vaulted tiled kitchen keep it rustic and warm. The main house is set up for families or a group of friends, each bedroom with its own bathroom, and a separate little cabin next door sleeps two.