Our history

The origin of the Houses of Ea Astei is a baserri or typical Basque farmhouse. Once the characteristics of the oldest construction materials were analyzed, the date of construction was established at the end of the 15th century. The farmhouse appears documented for the first time in the year 1641 in the register of the Casa de Juntas of Gernika. The original construction with chestnut wood framework and enclosure of the same material as the farmhouse was replaced in the 17th century by a stone façade with a large central arch of limestone ashlars. Traditionally, the first floor of Basque farmhouses was used to house the family and animals, and the upper floor was used to store the harvest. Today Etxeaundi is the central element around which the rest of the buildings of the Ea Astei Houses are built.