Hotel Description
More than simply a restored mill, hotel and country activity centre, this is a little piece of history. "Alquería de Los Lentos" is a great example of what loving, tasteful and painstaking renovation can achieve.
No effort has been spared by its local owners to respect, preserve, even recreate the ancient Moorish architectural style, while ensuring comfort is never compromised. Old folk in nearby Nigüelas have donated many items, often museum pieces that would otherwise have been lost, to this marvellous little hotel, located in sunny countryside just outside the village.
One enters from an outdoor furnished patio but not before crossing the running watercourse that drives the renovated 500-year-old mill machinery in the reception room and bar. Old ploughs, yokes, saws and winnowing forks adorn the walls. Tables have been fashioned from old urns, topped with glass.
Here and throughout "El Alquería" there are chestnut beams, old brick and stone walls, stable doors, terracotta flooring and a fireplace (with added central heating when needed). Ask about the spyhole …
One continues to the restaurant and dining room, to an interior patio with graceful fountain and on to a remarkable Arabic bathing room, where light twinkles through star shapes in the ceiling, tiling is traditional Granadino, and a Turkish-style warm bath is there to be wallowed in.
The fifteen bedrooms have space, character and delightful touches: fantastic old doors, beamed and roofed shower rooms, forged washbasin cradles; even the light switches are ceramic collectors' items.
Eight rooms are upstairs, where terraces afford delightful views over the valley and up to a dreamlike peak behind. The other seven rooms are on the ground floor and open to the gardens. One has wheelchair access. All rooms have air-conditioning.
Outdoors there are facilities to please everyone: swimming pool, barbecue, stables, a farmyard with animals. Walks and stories (in Spanish) for children are another planned attraction. A market garden provides organic fruit and vegetables for the Alquería's kitchen.
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Hotel Details
Bedrooms :
Fifteen double or twin bedded rooms, with en-suite shower room/WC. All have air-conditioning; all have views, all have either a glass-fronted fireplace or stove and central heating
Facilities
Restaurant and bar
Furnished patios and terraces
Swimming pool (10 m x 5 m, 0.60 -1.80 m deep)
Barbecue
Laundry service
Daily linen and towel change
Horse riding available
Notes
Weather permitting, the swimming pool will be open from June through to September inclusive, and possibly earlier if the weather is good
The minimum stay at Alquería de los Lentos is two nights
Location
Two minutes drive from the village of Nigüelas (simple shopping, bars and restaurants); 3 km from Dúrcal (most facilities, shops, banks, bars & restaurants)
Granada 20 mins; Costa Tropical 30 mins; Sierra Nevada Ski Resort 40 mins; Malaga 2 hrs
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Airports
Granada 35 mins; Málaga 2 hrs
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