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Spanish Hotels with History :: Hostal Empuries

Where: Platja Portixol, L'Escala, Gerona, Spain, 17130

After spending two weeks recapping the Lisbon Hotel Scene for us, Monica Guy is back with some history lessons. She's chronicling some of Spain's historic hotels this week. Enjoy.

A Spanish beach hotel with a difference: this one's small, special and has a bit of history behind it.

The Hostal Empuries is up on the Catalan coast between near Gerona, just north of Barcelona. If you want trendy seaside japes at a good price this is the place to go.

The hotel used to be a snack bar for archaeologists excavating the exciting (if you like that kind of thing) Roman necropolis just nearby. Then it added a few rooms and became a lovers' getaway - naughty 'business' weekends  and that kind of thing.

We guess because it's on the edge of a small, hidden cove with a tiny sandy beach and acres of wide, blue sea.

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