Five years ago, Macarena Gómez and Aldo Comas left Barcelona in search of a calmer way of life for themselves and their young son Dante. Since then, the artistic couple haven’t looked back, settling in the picturesque Alt Empordà region just south of the Pyrenees in northern Spain.
Here, they’ve converted a 17th-century millhouse – once their holiday home – into a full-time abode, a colourful, comfortable hub for their creative talents. With plenty of space and a riverside location, it’s also where they love to hike and ride, grow their own food and, above all, share their lives with an ever-expanding menagerie of animal friends, including a llama, alpacas, horses, dogs, peacocks and a parrot.
As they invite us inside, actress and producer Macarena and her husband, a painter…