If on the pitch Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso spends weeks in the viewfinder, on the national level he also does the things he wants. The technician from Guipuzco has an unresolved problem with the house he built in the Igeldo neighborhood. A judge declared it illegal in 2024 and environmentalists have now denounced to the tax authorities that the villa is landlocked on a plot commissioned since 2007 as a golf school which does not allow the construction of any type of access except for this use.
The construction of the Xabi Alonso family chalet is almost complete. The works were declared illegal several years ago by a contentious-administrative court in San Sebastián, which canceled the license granted, among other reasons, because it contravened urban regulations and exceeded municipal permits, and ordered its cancellation. This sentence was the subject of an appeal by the Ayuntamiento dostiarra (in the hands of the PNV and the PSE-EE) and the company Tavaro XXI, SL, whose sole administrator is Nagore Aranburu, wife of the ex-footballer of Real Sociedad and Real Madrid, among other teams, but the appeal has still not been successful. Another appeal processed last year is awaiting a resolution in which the “clandestine nature of the work” is denounced because the house is not located in the place where the municipal license is established.
The residence is located on a rural plot of 10,728 square meters of great landscape value, at the top of the Igeldo neighborhood, a natural paradise with extraordinary views over the edge of the Cantabrian Sea. According to the plaintiffs, this property was acquired in May 2018 by Tavaro XXI from the real estate company Marugel for a “disorbitant price” of 700,000 euros. Concerning the resources presented against a luxurious building that “violates the regulations” contained in the Spanish Law of Suelo and the urban ordinances of San Sebastián, environmentalists have filed new complaints. Follow the attack in court against Alonso’s company and his family for the possible commission of a crime of usurpation of public property and another of embezzlement against the town hall for having authorized access to the mansion through “a road of municipal property and service” which, therefore, “is not of public use”.
In the document recently transferred to the Fiscalía de Gipuzkoa, explains the plaintiff’s lawyer Javier Olaverri, he claims to have found “new documentation from which derives a cumulus of complicity and irregularities”. Since 2007, a Special Urban Plan has been in force and concerns the entire area where Alonso’s villa is located. This ordinance provides for a golf school in this rural area, which has not yet been built and there are no plans to do so, where “it is not possible to design trails and provide trails that do not coincide with what was approved in this special plan and, without doubt, if ever,” the complaint states.
The urban planning for the golf school concerns a part of 71,707 square meters, of which 10,728 square meters have been separated from the property that Tavaro (los Alonso) purchased from Marugel Real Estate. The plaintiffs claimed that the Real Madrid coach’s family paid 75,000 euros for a road service that would allow them to enter and exit the chalet on the highway. The plan to open a golf school in this establishment has not been carried out, there is no indication that this will happen. However, lawyer Olaverri points out the following: “Is Alonso aware of the existence of this golf school and is he denouncing the use of the path in this place? Is there any type of waste?”
The defense of Xabi Alonso’s company considers that the resource “has nothing to do with the head”. Aunque admits that the seller of the farm where the chalet is located requested a special plan to build a golf school, “the permit (for this activity) was not requested”. Adds: “The special plan is a requirement linked to a concrete activity. If the golf course is not built, it can be used for other uses. If the golf course is not built, the special plan is not carried out.”
The opponent insists that since 2007, “the main land from which it is planned to access the Tavaro chalet is organized by a special plan and intended for a golf school”, reason why on this land “nothing can be built that is not included in this plan” and, therefore, “the path of sale of the chalet is illegal”. If the courts ultimately decide that this is so, Alonso’s villa will remain like an island in the middle of nowhere, with no one passing in and out of Igeldo’s causeway.
“The story suffers from exhaustion”, reiterates Olaverri, because “the Marugel property sells to Alonso a land whose access invades a land classified as a golf school and connects with the road to the water depot, knowing that this connection is illegal since it was declared such by the municipality and diplomacy in 2005. And, in addition, you know that since 2007, nothing new has been able to be built on this land, except a golf school”.
With the help of Tavaro, the lawyer who assists the entrepreneur’s family assures that “the developer (of the villa) acted in good faith, and this is evident, because he purchased land that has a good permit. The developer made a modification to the project to improve it, because the initial project was barbaric, with a very strong landscaping effect. This is why I wanted to create a much more emblematic project (building), more respectful of the environment.
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