Introduction
Around 1880, the painter NICOLAS ALFARO, of Canary Island origin, bought a piece of land where he built a Swiss-style tower-house, the “masovers” house, a romantic garden and the water distribution tower that he designed.
This construction of Nordic lines, copying a typical Swiss house, was Alfaro's own idea.
Inside the house, on the walls there were several murals painted by Alfaro himself.
On the outside, on one side of the façade, there is a decorative cement panel molded with vegetal elements, and we see a blue horizontal band with an inscription in black letters that reads: Si el senyor no hagués edificat la casa, en va haguessin treballat els que l'edifiquen. (If the master had not built the house, those who built it would have worked in vain.)
Nowadays, the Ca l'Alfaro Park contains the 19th century tower-house, the house that used to belong to the “masovers” and the wooded area, but only the memory of the romantic garden remains.
