Gran Hotel Durango, Durango, Basque Country, Spain
The 4 star Gran Durango is located in the heart of the Basque countryside, in a imposing early 20th Century palace, now converted into a luxury hotel. It offers a cafeteria, restaurant, garage and gardens. Its 69 rooms are decorated in a distinct style and have a full bathroom, radio, data port and piped music.
Hotel has its own parking. Also, you can try the best of Basque cuisine in its restaurant. Its 6 big meeting rooms are fitted up with modern technological services which make them perfect for company meetings, celebrations and banquets for up to 250 people.
The Gran Hotel Durango is only 15 minutes from Bilbao and next to the A8 motorway, which joins Bilbao with France, and in a wonderful setting especially suited for nature-lovers: It’s surrounded by green pastures and close to Urkiola and Gorbea Natural Parks.
Hotel Facilities
- lift
- garden
- a la carte restaurant
- meeting rooms
- bar-cafeteria
- parking
- laundry service
- internet access
Room Details
- air conditioning
- fax
- cable & satellite tv
- hair dryer
- telephone
- 24h room service
- heating
- security box
- fully equipped bathroom
- radio
- desk
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Guide to the Basque Countryside
Miguel de Unamuno wrote one of the best definitions of the Basque countryside: "everything seems to be at your fingertips, made to order for the people who reside here and give it life; it is a domestic landscape, homelike, where more earth than sky can be seen". Bizkaia's inland valleys are uneven and beautiful, with high mountains and low valleys cloaked in legends and deep valleys with a marked rural flavour. The Encartaciones is land of battles between different sides and tower houses, many of them perfectly kept that will take us, magically, to an enchanted past.
The region of Alava's western valleys presents an outstanding natural landscape. In the north we find the valleys of Zuia and Ayala, with their refreshing waterfalls and solid tower-houses. In the south, we can find singular landscapes such as the Salinas de Añana and the ravine of the Valderejo Natural Park. The Alava Plain has been always a passing route for many pilgrims and traders.
Following the course of the river Oria and under the unmistakable silhouette of the Txindoki mountain we will find settled Tolosaldea, a county that better has kept alive its Basque cultural and folk traditions, along with Goierri. In order to know deeply this region's characteristics we must visit municipalities like Idiazabal, famous because of its worldly famous cheese, Segura and Zerain. Finally, we'll go to Ormaiztegi where, for instance, we can visit Zumalakarregi's historic museum.