Parador de Villafranca del Bierzo Hotel - Leon

The Parador de Villafranca del Bierzo Hotel offers good value accommodation and an ideal location close to the main motorway. It is a short drive from O’Cebreiro and Las Medulas, and is an ideal day trip base. There are plenty of outdoor recreation sites in the area where travellers can enjoy hunting, mountain biking, paragliding, and fishing. Guests need not go far to enjoy good food as the hotel has a superb cafe, lounge, and a large restaurant. Other facilities on site include a conference room and several swimming pools.

Number of Rooms: 38

The cuisine typical of the town has its own specialities such as; trucha con unto (a trout dish), el botillo del Bierzo, el pulpo a barciana (an octopus dish) and chanfaina barciana (a stew-like meal). For dessert there are los suspiros de monje (a mixture of flour, sugar and egg).

Its decorartion is characterizized by a tradictional Castillian decoration in furniture in the entrance halls.

This hotel is a white building divided into two parts. The most original feature is the tower, it was constructed 35 years ago on the way to Santiago de Compostela. The gardened entrance and the bushes give way to the sheltered car park. Its arquitecture imitates the lines and forms of nearby closy-felt Galicia.