{"id":1735,"date":"2016-09-25T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2016.benimacletconta.com\/casa-cafis-chalet-vista-alegre\/?lang=en"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T11:24:40","slug":"casa-cafis-chalet-vista-alegre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/en\/casa-cafis-chalet-vista-alegre\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa Caf\u00eds \u2013 The Vista Alegre House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074{\nborder-width:1px;\nborder-color:#83a846;\nborder-style:solid;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:20px 20px 20px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-b75c891232f39d01a8d00e2a0e674074 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Casa Caf\u00eds \u2013 The Vista Alegre House<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Date: principios del siglo XX<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Address:\u00a0Carrer de la Gu\u00e0rdia Civil, 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architects:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_half-9c1d454dc06f7247226bc4e8f931daae av_one_half  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_hr  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '   ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-34f8a8899d719fb8cc0b74b76a411c5d\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-34f8a8899d719fb8cc0b74b76a411c5d .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\nfont-size:11px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-34f8a8899d719fb8cc0b74b76a411c5d av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-100x74.jpg 100w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-200x149.jpg 200w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-600x449.jpg 600w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-900x674.jpg 900w, http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class='avia_image' ><img class='wp-image-2899 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2899 avia_image' src=\"http:\/\/benimacletconta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Chalet-Vista-Alegre-BenimacletConta-1024x767.jpg\" alt='' title='Chalet Vista Alegre - 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It was the country house of the well-off Mart\u00ed family. The owners lived in Reino Avenue and used this villa as a summerhouse. Next to it, there was a house for the servants. As the housekeepers\u00b4 granddaughters remember it, their grandparents worked for the Mart\u00ed family and lived there nearly all their life. They were in charge of the maintenance of the house and the agricultural fields around it, and also of the horses and other animals they kept for their own use. The garden was big, and a paid gardener saw to it that it looked pleasant all year round. There was a terrace, too, where the lady of the house used to sit to sunbathe, and a bay window decorated with stained glass. Both of them have disappeared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"exp-col-content-holder\">\n<p><a class=\"expand-cnt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/2016.benimacletconta.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1732&amp;action=edit&amp;lang=es#\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden-content\">\n<p class=\"hiddenContentp\">There is a reason for the name <em>\u201cCasa Cafis\u201d<\/em>. People say that the owner had lots of land in Benimaclet and in other parts of Valencia. It seems that when he talked to people about his properties, he would say: \u201cI have so and so many <em>\u201cCasa Cafis\u201d<\/em>\u201d and he would repeat the number of <em>cafissaes<\/em> that he had so often that people started to say Cafis house. A <em>cafiss\u00e0<\/em> is an old Valencian measure equivalent to 12 <em>hanegadas<\/em>. One <em>hanegada<\/em> is also a surface measure that varies widely from region to region. In Valencia, one <em>hanegada<\/em> is equivalent to 831 m2. Possibly, the origin of the term <em>cafiss\u00e0<\/em> could be <em>cah\u00edz<\/em>, which is a spatial measure for grains and legumes used in Spain. Just like all the other old measures, this one has no fixed value but different ones depending on the area. It consists of eight <em>fanegas<\/em>, 24 <em>cuartales<\/em> and 96 <em>cuartales<\/em> or <em>celemines<\/em>. However, there is a broad variety of computations depending on the region. A <em>cahizada<\/em> was an area of land that could be sown with one <em>cahiz<\/em> of grain. This probably developed into <em>cafiss\u00e0<\/em> in the Valencian region.<\/p>\n<p>During the civil war, the housekeepers asked for permission to open the house to evacuated people. About 60 persons were temporarily housed there. In addition, the housekeeper \u2013 loyal to the owners \u2013 hid the jewellery and other valuables so that they would not be stolen. To avoid problems, they also had to board up the statue of the Virgin that was kept in the home. There was a big shelter to which people would run automatically every time the thundering of bombs was heard.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the house the Mart\u00ed family built a factory; the only thing left of it now is the chimney, situated a few meters from the house. It was a vegetable cannery, mostly of tomatoes, with quite a large number of employees. It operated until 1956, according to their memory.<\/p>\n<p>The housekeepers were employed there until the late sixties. When they stopped working, the owner added a second floor to the servants\u00b4 house for them to be able to live there until the end of their life, and he hired someone younger to be in charge. As people remember it, the house was inhabited until 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the villa is a public building, known as Chalet Mart\u00ed, in reference to the last name of the owners. 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