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Historic Spanish Hotels
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.
