HISTORY
Cuina
Lintel of 1771

The house was built in 1771 for Manuel Galitó, as the old lintel of the house indicates. According to a notarial registry signed on 26th October 1770, Manuel Galitó released his father Josep from certain dutys, that he had acquired in accordance with the matrimonial chapters that they had signed in 1767. In exchange, Manuel received from his father some landholdings, one those in particular was in the share of Vilot, that was the site where the house has to be built in origin "una casa ab parets de tàpia de coranta sinch palms a tot quadros, ab sos corresponents sòculs y fonament de pedra y argamassa,... ab dos trevols, finestras y teuladauna casa ab parets de tàpia de coranta sinch palms a tot quadros, ab sos corresponents sòculs y fonament de pedra y argamassa,... ab dos trevols, finestras y teulada". Apart from the house, the father was obliged to give to his son "cent sinquanta lliures moneda barcelonina... [as well as] los materials necessaris per a la construcció y fabricació de dita casa, ab la forma dalt dita de bigas, pedra, rajolas, guix y argamassa a peu d'obra, y [també] deurà donar las pedras picadas que ja eran destinadas y no empleadas per Josep Galitó per fer una casa nova" (AHCC, registry office Tàrrega, Pere Vila Coll, Book 1770-1771, fol. 197 ss.).


Lateral facade

We know from a later document that at the end the house was built in another site: "the house, farmyard and threshing floor is situated in Utxafava, in the property called Piló de la Creu. To the east, it runs alongside the road that ends on the church of Castelnou, and it shares with Antonio Balagué's property; to the south, the track from Castellnou to Poal; to the west with that track; and to the north it runs along the road from the flock to the to the pool" (AHCC, Bellpuig Register, Ramón Soler Rossell, Capbreu d'Utxafava i Oberchs, 1791-1797, fol. 201 r.).

The house underwent several refurbishments during the nineteenth century. The kitchen and balcony belong to that time. At that moment the house was called "Cal Manel". Other alterations were carried out in the seventies and eighteens of the twentieth-century: a side door was opened in the frontage, and the first floor was refurnished.

Finally, the house was acquired the 2004 by Irene Barón. She brought the house to its present state, by doing an elaborated work of restoration, refurbishment and decoration.