Hotel Description
Set in beautiful wooded countryside, the original building of "Molino Nuestra Señora de la Luz", (the Mill of our Lady of the Light), dates back to 1754, with additions built over the ensuing centuries.
Its architecture is typical Andaluz, with its roots in the ancient Roman idea of building around a central courtyard, thus creating a quiet, shaded and fragrant heart to the building where one can sit protected from the hot summer sun by old vines, in delightful silence disturbed only by a gurgling fountain.
Owned by the same family for centuries, time has in many ways stood still here, with genuine, old style, unhurried Andalusian hospitality offered by Doña Consuelo, the lady of the house, and her staff. Don't expect Holiday Inn-style receptionists and porters rushing around, it's what the Spanish call formal. Grace rules over efficienty here.
The fourteen rooms offered in this property are as carefully and gently looked after as you will be. Each of the rooms has a modern en-suite bathroom and is decorated individually according to the family's taste and talent, sporting such details as their home-crocheted bedcovers.
Breakfast is served by the fireplace in the huge, traditional dining room, dominated by its dark beamed cathedral ceiling. Lunch and dinner can be arranged, provided that they are ordered in time to allow Doña Consuela time to go into town for the shopping. Authentic, home-cooking is guaranteed, prepared by the lady herself.
You will be invited to sit by the fireplace with a cocktail in the dining anteroom while your meal is being prepared, and ushered into the dining room with it's long wooden tables to eat.
A drawing room with a fireplace on the second floor is the perfect place to snuggle with a warm after-diner cognac, or if you prefer, a gentle game of billiards. If that is too taxing you can exercise your wits instead, at the chess table. One serves oneself at the bar but please keep track of one's own consumption for later billing.
The vast central courtyard is a lovely place to while away the afternoons, there are splendid gardens and a big, inviting pool too. All around, as far as you can see, is rural tranquility.
A three kilometre road runs through the sunflower fields that surround the hotel, down to the main road from where it's easy to travel to either Arcos de la Frontera or Grazalema and further afield, to Seville, Jerez or Ronda.
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Hotel Details
Bedrooms :
Fourteen bedrooms (ten doubles, four twins), all with en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning (except for one twin)
Facilities
Courtyard with furniture
Drawing room with honesty bar, open fireplace & TV
Dining Room (lunch and dinner can be provided on request; sufficient notice is required)
Billards Room
Gardens
Swimming pool (12 m x 8 m, 0.5 m - 2.5 m deep) and sun terrace
Parking
Notes
Weather permitting, the swimming pool will be open from April to October inclusive
The minimum stay at Hotel Cortijo Barranco is two nights
Location
In open countryside, 5 km from Arcos de la Frontera (all facilities)
Jerez 25 mins; Grazalema 45 mins; Ronda 1 hr; Cádiz 1 hr; Sevilla 1 hr; Gibraltar 1½ hrs; Málaga 2 hrs
See the location map above
Airports
Jerez 25 mins; Sevilla 1 hr; Gibraltar 1½ hrs; Málaga 2 hrs
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