History

Can Panyella is a work protected as a cultural asset and of local interest. 

Formerly it was a farmhouse made up of three rectangular houses attached, covered on two slopes.

The one to live, the one of the cattle and the one of the warehouses.

In the living room and in the cattle room, its origin from the 15th century can be guessed, constant from floor to floor, with a voussoir doorway, cut windows, a large entrance and a large distribution room for the upper rooms.

The cellar house, on one floor and very spacious, contained 60 barrels and three presses.

Next door was a threshing floor with a very primitive hut.
It had had a roll fire with seats of which only a graceful outside fireplace remained.

From the documents preserved in Mas Lledoner de Vallirana, the former owners of the house, we know that at the end of the 18th century, around 1763, the heiress of Can Panyella, Maria Panyella y Bellagarda, married one of the Romagosa del Lledoner heirs.

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​The oldest documentation is a parchment from the year 1230 in a sale of a piece of land on Mas Ricolf.

We do not know for now the transition from the Ricolfs to the Pujols.

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In 1337 a Pere Pujol from the Ricolf farmhouse and his wife Elisenda and one of the daughters Guillema are mentioned.

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In 1376 Gueraba Pujol, daughter of Pere Pujol, widow of Guillem Codorniu, who made a will in 1367 making her Pere Codorniu heir, made a donation.

The Codorniu continue until Angelina Codorniu who made marriage chapters (1436) with Ponç Penyella, from Begues, son of Guillem and Dolça.

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The lord of Gelida, Antoni Bertran, established the Martí and Ricolf farmhouses in 1453 for the spouses Angelina Codorniu, owner, and Ponç Penyella.
The Penyella family continued until the 18th century, Maria Penyella and Bellagarda, who married the heir to Lledoner (Vallirana) Josep Romegosa i Muntaner.

The father of the last heiress, Pau Penyella, confessed the Martí farmhouse to the lords of Gelida in 1736. The Romegosa.

 
The Anguelas, originally from Alió (Alt Camp), were the landowners who later acquired the property from the Romegosa in the 20th century.

Little by little, the Anguelas changed the house, dedicating themselves to the vineyards, the fruit trees, and the farm animals. 

They served lunches, dinners and rooms to people passing through. For example, workers who built the AP-7 highway and small primitive industries. 

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In 1992 the vineyards, fruit trees and farm animals were left. And they turned the old winery into a restaurant that is currently in operation.  

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In 2016, the other part of the house was formed, a 7-room hotel where until now it is being run by Anguela Garcia and López.