Leiguarda 47
A house for music, creation, and artistic life in rural Asturias.
The Place
Where ADAR lives and works
Leiguarda 47 is the permanent home of Festival ADAR. A restored village house in the mountains of western Asturias where artists come to rehearse, compose, record, collaborate, and share their work with a local audience. Everything happens under one roof: sleeping, cooking, practicing, thinking, performing.
The House
One building, many lives
Not a concert hall. Not a hotel. Leiguarda 47 is a working house where artistic creation and daily life share the same space. Residents live together, eat together, and build projects side by side.
Spaces
Built for focused, flexible work
Rehearsal and Concert Room
The main room holds a grand piano and works as both rehearsal space and intimate performance venue. Chamber music, interdisciplinary rehearsals, readings, and small concerts all happen here.
Studio and Work Areas
Dedicated zones for composing, editing, digital production, and project planning. The house is equipped with projectors, creative software, audio capture tools, and high-speed fiber internet.
Living Quarters
Bedrooms, a shared kitchen, common areas, and terraces. Living on site means the conversation never stops and collaboration happens naturally, between sessions, over meals, on evening walks.
Outdoor Spaces
Terraces, village paths, and the surrounding mountain landscape. The outside is not separate from the work. Walking, listening, and simply being in this place shape the creative process.
Residency Life
A shared rhythm
At Leiguarda 47, artists live and create in close proximity. The structure is simple: mornings for focused work, afternoons for rehearsal and exchange, evenings for reflection and informal conversation. Mentors, collaborators, and the ADAR team are all part of the daily fabric.
Public Moments
Small concerts, close listening
The headquarters hosts intimate performances, open rehearsals, work-in-progress sharings, and talks. The scale is deliberate: a few dozen seats, direct contact between artists and audience, music heard up close. Projects developed in residence find their first public life right here.
The Territory
Silence, landscape, scale
Leiguarda is a village of fewer than twenty inhabitants in the mountains of Belmonte de Miranda. The quiet, the slow pace, and the distance from urban life are not incidental. They are the conditions that make a different kind of artistic work possible.
What Happens Here
From first ideas to finished work
Residencies
Extended stays for composers, performers, and interdisciplinary artists. Time to develop new work, test ideas, rehearse intensively, and refine projects before they travel further.
Documentation and Production
Video, photography, audio recording, and digital production. Work made at Leiguarda 47 is captured and prepared to circulate beyond the residency itself.
Mentorship and Exchange
One-on-one feedback, collective sessions, and informal conversation between artists, mentors, and the ADAR team. The house is built for dialogue.
Community Connection
Open sessions, local encounters, and connections with nearby villages and heritage sites. The headquarters is a starting point for cultural work that reaches into the wider territory.
Facilities
What the house provides
Equipment
Grand piano, projectors, monitors, creative software, audio and video recording tools, high-speed fiber internet for remote collaboration and streaming.
Accommodation
On-site bedrooms, shared kitchen, and common living areas. All meals and daily life are integrated into the residency experience.
Accessibility
Key spaces can be organized at ground level, including the rehearsal room, kitchen, and bathroom. ADAR plans individually with each resident to address access needs in advance.
Sustainability
Concentrating everything in one place reduces transport, simplifies logistics, and keeps the environmental footprint low. Local sourcing and reuse of existing resources are part of how the house operates.
Gallery
Inside and around Leiguarda 47
Come
A place shaped by listening, hospitality, and time
Leiguarda 47 is where ADAR's work begins. If you are an artist, a programmer, or a collaborator interested in what happens here, we would love to hear from you.