La Lonja

The first time I visited Santolaya (or, in Castillian Spanish, Santa Eulalia), this building was grey and distressed. Like a number of properties in the rural area, it had to be rescued or it would fall down. 
Two things were happening that would save it. One was the election of a vigorous and ambitious - and talented - young Alcalde, and the other was the arrival of a former bar owner from Oviedo looking for new work. 
The Alcalde vastly improved the main road and installed broadband. That was done despite the telephone company, who would not provide an adsl line. So the Concejo paid (thanks to Europe) for the provision of two adsl lines to the Town Hall, and in the Town Hall set up a router that transmitted broadband access to anyone in the Concejo that wanted to pay for it: a receiver was attached to the external wall of their house and a cable took the signal inside for the householder to make use of. It wasn´t great broadband, it got sticky and slow when the children got home from school, but it was a triumph that it was there at all. And it´s now been replaced by fibre-optic, which is being extended to, I think, the whole Concejo.
The combination of better road acess and a broadband line started attracting people in, and among the incomers was one who wanted to rescue the casona above and convert it into a bar, restaurant, and guest house. 
To shorten a long story, the business did not work. The restaurant attempt has failed, as has the guest house idea; the family manage to keep the house and sometimes open the bar, by means of other work. 
It´s, in my view, a beautiful building and a noble attempt.