About Baldosa
Baldosa is a free weekly email of Spanish homes for sale with character, from hundreds of local agencies across 17 regions.
What we look for
Houses with real architectural or historical character: casonas and palacetes, masías and cortijos, period villas, wine and olive estates, houses on the sea and in the mountains, and mills and convents made into homes.
How the picks are chosen
- Each house has to be a fine example of its kind, with room for a family.
- An issue is spread across regions and agencies.
- When several agencies list the same house, or a house has been in an issue before, we work to avoid featuring it twice.
- Every pick is checked on the agency’s website before the email goes out.
- If a week doesn’t turn up enough good houses, we skip it.
- The write-ups are drafted with AI from each agency’s listing. A preview of every issue reaches us the day before it sends, so we can change a pick or hold the issue.
Who we are
Baldosa is published by XODER PR LLC, in partnership with SpainExpat.com.
We choose the houses, and each one links to the agency selling it. Any sale is between you and that agency.
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Why Baldosa
We love baldosas hidráulicas, and that’s why we chose the name. We have them on our terrace at home.
A baldosa is a floor tile. A baldosa hidráulica is the patterned cement tile laid in Spanish houses from the late 1800s to the middle of the last century. Each one was made by pouring coloured cement into a brass mould and squeezing it in a hydraulic press, which gave the tile its name.
We want to see them come back into Spanish houses. Where a house still has its original floor, we hope whoever buys it keeps the tiles and cherishes them.
Our wordmark is set in Ibarra Real Nova, a revival of the type Gerónimo Gil cut for the Don Quixote that Joaquín Ibarra printed for the Real Academia Española in 1780.
For agencies
Our crawler reads public listing pages so we can feature houses and send readers to you. What it reads, how it behaves and how to opt out. To send us your listings or ask about a pick, write to agencias@baldosa.casa.
Picture credits
The photographs of places and floors on this site come from Wikimedia Commons, and none of them is a listing. Photographs in the weekly picks belong to the agencies selling those houses. The still from the tile-making video comes from Jose María A. Carbajo’s YouTube channel.
- Ca l’Arenas, Mataró, hydraulic tile floor by Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Las Menas, warehouse floor by MdeVicente, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Alley in Capileira by Jocelyn Erskine-Kellie, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Capileira, old door by Bachelot Pierre J-P, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cuevas de Guadix by Nicolas Vigier, CC0
- Casa Turull, Sabadell, hydraulic tile floor by Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Valderrobres 06 by José Luis Mieza, CC BY 2.0
- Calle con tinao, Capileira by Jl FilpoC, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cortijo del Barranco by MdeVicente, CC BY-SA 4.0
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