Throughout all the stations it will be able to enjoy varied and complete activities:

 
 

 

OUR ACTIVITIES:

Our activity star: A Course of tasting will allow to begin in the knowledge of wines making. A wine expert will surprise with a course of initiation to the tasting and a visit to the warehouses of the zone. For the most bold, descendant until the heart of the medieval warehouses and plate tasting of the zone and wines of the villa.

The hotel offers to enjoy a barbecue of “chuletas” of lamb “al sarmiento” or to know the tricks of the roasted one to the furnace firewood.

Harvesting of mushrooms and fungi: from March to November the Hotel counts on expert guides who will accompany to the most fruitful zones to them where to collect níscalos, mushrooms of thistle, moradillas, fungi.. and to taste later, if desired, in the dining room of the hotel.


 



In Villa de Peñaranda:

In the heart of the Ribera del Duero of Burgos it will be able to visit: Medieval castle, Ducal Palace, Abbatial Colegiata, the old Ximeno Pharmacy of century XVII, the old Hospital of the Mercy, the Blacksmith shop, a network of underground warehouses...

20 meters away of the Hotel is located the swimming pool of the villa, within the own ducal palace, where to enjoy the rest and impressive views to the medieval castle.

 

June to September it will be able to enjoy the cultural festivals of the villa, with theater, opera, dance, concerts, of great national and international artists, who are celebrated in the ducal palace, the colegiata or the Plaza Mayor. We facilitated the entrances for these events.

In the month of August it will be able to participate, to contemplate or to enjoy the multiple contests at national level that the city council of the villa organizes, it is possible to emphasize the fast painting contest.

The medieval weddings are translated in a great celebration for all the one in the villa by its color and by the generosity of their people.

The scenic art also has its hollow in documentary and films that are rolled in the villa for the benefits of the eyes that contemplate them.

IN THE ENVIRONS:

The Hotel is an strategically important point to initiate each morning any of the tourist itineraries of the manifold that offers the region.

If anyone looks for rest and activity, we recommended numerous and varied excursions, that we can organize to him by the zone:

  • Contemplate the mosaics in the Roman Ruins of Clunia.
  • Monastery of Silos where to listen to Gregoriano Song.
  • Lobo River Canyon where to observe its reserve of vultures.
  • Desfiladero de Yecla where to make descent.
  • Horse riding and discover the secrets of Castilian earth.
  • Visit the mountain range of Urbión with the Black Lagoon and the birth of the Duero.
  • That crosses the deposit of Atapuerca and to discover our origins.
 

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