The Hotel Marquess of Riscal, a hotel Luxury Collection, it is in Elciego (the Rioja Of Alava), I joust in the heart of the City of the Wine of the Wine vaults of the Heirs of the Marquess of Riscal.
Worldwide well-known and renowned architect Frank O. Gehry is the creator of this hotel, being this one your second masterpiece in Spain, after leading the city of Bilbao to an urban resurrection with the construction of the Museum Guggenheim.
This exceptional jewel of the prestigious mark Luxury Collection of the hotel chain Starwood Hotels&Resorts is already considered, to today, like one of the more avant-garde places of relaxation.
The Hotel Marquess of Riscal The Luxury Collection inaugurated on October 10, 2006, he stands out for the spectacular nature of your forms and silhouette Of Alava in the same center of the Rioja. The modern building contrasts elegantly with the head office of the Wine vaults designed in 1858 for the architect Ricardo Bellsola.
The hotel has 43 rooms including 10 suites for the most part located in the wing of the Spa. The interior design is part also of Frank 0. Gehry, creating a modern but comfortable ambience.
The rooms have conference on the vineyards and on the medieval people of Elciego and the Saw of Cantabria. The rooms arrange of TV sets LCD of Bang and Olufsen, phones IP Slack in all the rooms, baths of marble, shower and separated bathtub and Amenities Luxury Collection and Caudalíe, in addition to proprietors Nespresso in all the suites.
If precisely what loves is to disconnect, this destination offers the whole world of temptations, sensations and flavors impossible to find in a joint way in another place: luxurious restaurant, a bistro, a vinoteca, a lounge VIP with library and chimney, and processings of beauty and relaxation of vinoterapia.
There deserve special mention the conference that they can enjoy from the lookout of the lounge VIP, the best of two regions, towards a side La Rioja and towards other the Basque Country. Two worlds: that of the wine and that of the gastronomy, both of the tallest standing come together in this exact point.
And all those who want to verify it, it can do in the gastronomic Restaurant of the hotel, tasting the author's kitchen of Chef Francis Paniego, the first cook riojano rewarded with a star Michelín in the year 2004, in your restaurant the Portal of Echaurren (Ezcaray). The most innovative both your creations and the most traditional recipes that are offered in the Bistró 1860, are interpreted by young José Ramón Pineiro.
To the visual, gastronomic enjoyment and of the comfort of the Hotel, a new sensation only in Spain is appended: the Vinoterapia of the hand of Caudalie Vinothérapie Spa, rewarded in year 2004 as better Spa by Count Nast Traveller and in 2006 with the Award of Monaco. The whole world of processings and sensations, relaxing, vigorizantes, slimming products, reaffirmants, anti - stress and anti-age realized by means of the purest extracts of the vine and other natural ingredients, like the brown sugar, the honey and essential oils.
Address: Torrea, 1 – 01340 Elciego (Alava)
Phone: 945 180 880
Web: www.marquesderiscal.com
For Maria Galán
