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Spanish Hotels with History :: The Casa Hotel As Artes
August 29, 2008 at 3:45 PM | 0 Comments
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.
Here's where to stay if you can't afford the Hostal Dos Reyes Católicos in Santiago de Compostela's cathedral square: the Casa Hotel As Artes.
It's a tiny seven-room hotel, owned by two friendly locals who claim the baby-sized rooms are 'Parisian' rather than just small. The size of the rooms is the only bad thing, however, as nearly all else is fab.
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Spanish Hotels with History :: Hostal de los Reyes Católicos
August 28, 2008 at 9:05 AM | 0 Comments
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.
Talking of Spanish Hotels with History, this one boasts to be the oldest 'proper' hotel in the world.
The Hostal de los Reyes Católicos is a 5-star Gran Lujo hotel--better than a 5-star--and it's located superbly right opposite the magnificent cathedral in Santiago de Compostela's central square. It's also known in English as the Royal Hospital or in Spanish as the Parador de Santiago de Compostela.
The hotel's partly funded by the government as a parador, a status awarded only to the best hotels in the most historic of buildings in Spain.
The décor? Use your imagination. Dark wood, dim lighting, high ceilings, exposed stone, the odd suit of armour or oil painting glaring down at you. We stayed there for a night last year and can't remember anything of the room except that it was super-luxury and super-traditional - a bit too traditional for our taste.
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Spanish Hotels with History :: Hostal Empuries
August 27, 2008 at 9:00 AM | 0 Comments
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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Spanish Hotels with History :: The Hotel Masferrer
August 26, 2008 at 10:30 AM | 1 Comment
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.
Here's another top Hotel with History near Barcelona: the Hotel Masferrer. It's 50 km from the city but right at the foot of the Montseny national park (a hiker's paradise) and one of the niftiest contemporary hotels we've stayed in.
This hotel's got a romantic history - a young Spanish couple bought the place and spent years restoring it before opening it timidly to guests.
The building is a super mix of ancient and modern. The old entrance hall looks like a Greek temple with columns and shadows everywhere and there are heavy original brass-studded wood doors to get in. Inside, though, it's bright and modern, with linen curtains and quality fabrics and jacuzzi jets in the baths.
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Spanish Hotels with History :: Torre Martí
August 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
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.
Spain's renowned for its chain hotels and beachside biggies, but the best places to stay are the smaller, lesser-known hotels heaving with history and atmosphere. Here's our number one Hotel with History in Spain: the Hotel Torre Martí, a short drive from Barcelona.
We have high standards here at HotelChatter, as you know, but this place is seriously fabulous. It's a huge, deep red villa surrounded by fountained gardens and curtains of trees, the kind of place you can imagine wealthy ancient Romans retreating to in summer (it was originally a summer retreat when it was built in 1945).
It's now owned by an irresistibly attractive dark-eyed Spaniard named Roger and his artist/chef father, who've turned it into a boutique hotel par excellence.
