Gîte Wilfred le Velu

This 58m² gite includes a large bedroom (28 m², east facing) and a living room with equipped kitchenette (23 m², east facing). Leaning against the hill, it offers a nice view on the garden.

This gite can accommodate 4 people maximum. The bedroom is equipped with two single beds (90 x 200 cm) that can be converted into a double bed (king size, 180 x 200cm). The living room is equipped with a sofa and a sofa bed of 140 x 190 cm.

The equipment provided is the cooking plate (vitroceramic), the oven, the microwave oven, the refrigerator / freezer, the television (by satellite TNT SAT – decoder with usb port) and Internet (WiFi). A stone terrace with a glass table is available in the garden (next to the rosebushes) for the tenants of this gite.

The gite has an access to the bedroom on the first floor and an access to the living room via a slope. 

It is classified three stars in Meublé de Tourisme.

But who is this Wilfred?

Born around 840, Wilfred (or Guifred – “victorious peace”) was the son of Sunifred I, Count of Urgell and Cerdanya. A bold fighter, he defeated the Muslims on several occasions. At the Council of Troyes in 878, he obtained from King Louis the Beggar the hereditary title of Count of Barcelona and Girona and was later considered the founding father of Catalonia.

According to legend, he was the origin of the four “blood bars”, vertical red stripes on the yellow coat of arms of the Counts of Barcelona. Wilfred is said to have been victorious but wounded in battle against the Normans, and King Charles the Bald of France rewarded him by plunging four fingers into the wound and drawing four blood marks on his golden shield, thus giving him his coat of arms.

Around 885 Wilfred created the county of Ausonne and re-established the bishopric on the territories reconquered from the Saracens. Preventing a possible return of the “infidels” he developed Catholicism by building several abbeys. Guifred the Velu died in 897 fighting the Muslim lord Llop ibn Muhammad.