Casa d’Areny-Plandolit Museum

We can also visit a reproduction of the dentist consulting room by Pau-Xavier d'Areny-Plandolit. The doctor's consulting room is a recreation of the one he had in Encamp, with the medical equipment, the chair for the patients, his graduation class photograph... Pau-Xavier was also very interested in taxidermy and began collecting stuffed animals. In his museum there were pets, European and exotic species, as well as a collection of plants and minerals.

Another room is the reproduction of the darkroom, where we find his set of photographic tools that was used in the early twentieth century. Pau-Xavier d'Areny-Plandolit was passionate about photography and together with his son Ramon d'Areny-Plandolit i Gassó made an important photographic collection, which is made up of about 4,000 negatives. The collection is part of the National Archives, since negatives are a very important visual testimony of life in Andorra between 1920 and 1945.

Guillem (1872-1933?), brother of Pau-Xavier, was also passionate about photography. Its extensive collection is preserved in Alt Urgell, although the National Archive has a few hundred Andorran-themed negatives that can be access online.

Finally, the Children's room and the Toys' room are another demonstration of the family's economic power, as children at the time had no toys or the few they had were homemade. 

It had a sink, a bath with a shower and a bidet.

The room has its own en-suit bathroom. 

In a corner of the walls of the rooms corridor we can see the holes of an old inner dovecote. The main dovecote is a tower and is located outside the house. 

Breading pidgins was a common habit to feed the family and they also used the pigeon excrement as fertiliser for the fields.

From this large central space you can access several chambers. In the guest room, with a full bathroom, we can check the evolution of the bathrooms there with the different bathtubs.

On the second floor of the house the children’s rooms and servant’s quarters were situated, and today we find Don Guillem's dream.

Don Guillem would like to invite you to remember his intense life; his relationship with Carlism, his time as síndic (Speaker) of the Andorran Parliament, his role promoting the New Reform and the passion of his two marriages, in a magical experience with holograms that allows us to relive the history of the country.

Don Guillem’s Dream is a multisensorial experience that combines tangible objects, technology and a real space that transports us back to the Baron’s era and the Andorra of the mid-19^th century, to the twilight years of a powerful family behind the walls of a summer residence that still preserves the memories of a prominent dynasty that lived in the lap of luxury, indulging itself in whims and fancies that were far removed from the Andorran reality.

Remembering the past with technologies from the present for a visit like no other to the Casa d’Areny-Plandolit.

The original uses of the rooms on this floor are unknown, as they have been completely restored.