Villa Encarnación was built in the early twentieth century for Manuel Llano and his wife, Mrs. Encarnación. Originally, the house was beautifully furnished; during the civil war was fitted out as field hospital and, after this, as accommodation for prisoners of war, sentenced to hard labor in the many civil works that a postwar country needs, and their guardians. After that, the house started to fall slowly into oblivion. A sad decadence story for a beautiful house, like so many other.
I met it for the first time nine to ten years ago, during some fieldwork near Arriondas (Asturias). I took a couple of fast photos with a disposable camera, and wrote a mental note to come back someday.
It had to pass ten years for me to come back. I greeted some unfriendly horses that roam the property, and took about a dozen photos. After a hard selection process, this was the one.

I'll be honest: There are better potos of this house; you can find them in the web. So, I decided to differentiate mine from them by enhancing it a little bit.

Yours is the last word on whether I succeeded or not.









