Asturias country hotel, Spain
| country: | Spain |
| location: | Asturias, Picos de Europa |
| price: | From €54 - €75 double room per night |
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description
This comfortable friendly country hotel with spectacular views was built at the end of the 19th century in wood and stone and restored preserving its original architecture. Its decoration has been inspired by a balance between rustic and modern.
There are 12 double bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms, a delightful bar lounge plus a panoramic lounge with a small library as well as terraces and gardens making the hotel an ideal place to relax.
The restaurant open exclusively for the hotel guests serves excellent imaginative home cooking with a strong emphasis on the use of local and organic produce.
The hotel is surrounded by its own 18 acre organic farm with wild flower meadows, cider apple plantations, and Asturian rare breeds including; xalda sheep, asturcon ponies and pita pinta chickens. There is also a vegetable and herb garden for the kitchen.
Due to the hotels strategic location close to the Asturian Mountains including the Picos de Europa, the Cantabrian Sea and rivers, there are a wide range of activities available such as walking, wild flowers, canoeing, fishing, horse riding and swimming. An extensive range of self guided walking notes and guided walking are available from the hotel. We also provide detailed tourist information on the area.
Environmental values have a central place in the hotel's philosophy and this helps to the good and friendly atmosphere and the guest well being. Guests are requested not to smoke in the hotel
There are 12 double bedrooms all with en-suite bathrooms, a delightful bar lounge plus a panoramic lounge with a small library as well as terraces and gardens making the hotel an ideal place to relax.
The restaurant open exclusively for the hotel guests serves excellent imaginative home cooking with a strong emphasis on the use of local and organic produce.
The hotel is surrounded by its own 18 acre organic farm with wild flower meadows, cider apple plantations, and Asturian rare breeds including; xalda sheep, asturcon ponies and pita pinta chickens. There is also a vegetable and herb garden for the kitchen.
Due to the hotels strategic location close to the Asturian Mountains including the Picos de Europa, the Cantabrian Sea and rivers, there are a wide range of activities available such as walking, wild flowers, canoeing, fishing, horse riding and swimming. An extensive range of self guided walking notes and guided walking are available from the hotel. We also provide detailed tourist information on the area.Environmental values have a central place in the hotel's philosophy and this helps to the good and friendly atmosphere and the guest well being. Guests are requested not to smoke in the hotel
travellers' tales
Most memorable was no single event, just every day new unfolding experiences - the mountains, the sea, the food, the local town, interesting people. (more)
rooms, food and facilities
Walking accommodation
The hotel makes an excellent walking base, due to its close proximity to both the mountains and the coast. This makes for very varied walking, from high mountains to rugged coastline, with lots of spectacular views, wild flowers and birds.
At the hotel we have a full range of walking maps of the area for guests to borrow and there is also notes on over 20 self guided walks available. Some of these walks can be done straight from the hotel and others start at a short drive from the hotel.
Organic holidays
Our hotel is situated in its own 20 acre certified organic farm producing fresh fruit and vegetables for the hotel restaurant as well as commercial crops of lamb, breeding sheep and cider apples. The farm is managed to develop, rich wildlife habitats and in particular wildflower meadows, and integrate this with low intensity organic farming. Over 85% of all produce used in the hotel restaurant is certified organic with an emphasis on the use of seasonal, home grown and local produce. The hotel restaurant is open exclusively to guests to enjoy an excellent imaginative home cooking making the most of these quality ingredients.
how to find us
By car: Once in the town centre of Arriondas, take the AS260 out of Arriondas. We are just outside Collia .By air: Nearest Airports: Asturias 90 kms, Santander 120 Kms & Bilbao 230 Kms
how this holiday makes a difference
 Asturias is a rural area with traditional mountain and hill farming. We operate an organic farm using many traditional practices but also look at how to increase the value of these products. One of our major interests and concerns is how to make the local farming more profitable with a positive impact on the environment and landscape. We have a policy of buying local and organic produce whenever possible and quality permits. We try to buy direct from the farmer or producer ensuring quality for our guests and providing alternative markets for the supplier. We enjoy establishing a close relationship with farmers and producers, sharing information, and in some cases have been able to put them in contact with alternative outlets for their produce such as quality restaurants.  We have implemented various measures so as to reduce our impact on the environment such as: not use individually packed items, we recycle and encourage guests to do likewise, compost our own organic waste, use low energy light bulbs where applicable and use sensors to illuminate only when necessary, control water pressure. We have contracted our electric supply with Electra Norte, the only Spanish company (from Asturias) which use exclusively, wind, solar and hydroelectric sources. We provide guests with information on excursions in the area without using their car. Finally a lot of the produce we use in the Hotel restaurant is organic. |
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