...for a lifestyle of quality

"A fortified coastal fishing village" with an up-to-date quality specification.

Planned development

Villaricos was a real live village in its own right and any new development would need to be special. A sympathetic and attractive traditional building style was designed and vacant sites within the village are being redeveloped with courtyard schemes of low rise townhouses and apartments, grouped around their own gardens and pools. Consolidating the existing street pattern in this manner reinforces the traditional identity of the village, improves values and raises the sense of quality from the outset. Later, the surrounds of the village will be linked together with a series of plazas, some with shops, bars and restaurants, others with both formal and informal gardens and swimming pools, themselves joined by narrow streets and alleys in the old Mediterranean manner.

Future elements - a sustainable way to grow

A new village plaza will be built between El Ancla, El Timon and the existing old market square which will then be repaved and softly lit and landscaped. A link road behind the village will relieve the village centre of traffic and provide parking for the shops, leading down the rambla to the village plazas which will, by then, have pedestrian priority. The existing Maritime Paseo is to be extended along the coast, past the Castillo de Cristal and down to Villaricos' sandy beach. It is hoped to create an arts and craft market in the village plaza to provide an active and fascinating year round focus to the village. Finally, the outlying hills will see individual fortified hamlets appearing on the peaks above Villaricos. The surrounding valleys will be watered and landscaped to create a dramatic visual backdrop. The real impact of good quality landscape on perceived values may be seen in the companies work at Desert Springs.

Development from the centre outwards will free the completed areas of ongoing construction so that the village can evolve naturally and slowly without disturbance to the people already living and holidaying there.

The end result...

High quality tourism and business will, over the long term, be attracted in to the village, increasing property values for Owners and Investors and above all providing the framework for a lifestyle of quality for visitors and residents alike.