Hotel Amalurra, Artzentales, Basque Country, Spain
Rural hotel offering charming accommodation in stunning natural surroundings; warm and welcoming with multifunctional facilities in an area offering an array of activities and places of interest.
Get to know the rural environment of the area cycling and walking on the great footpaths and mountains or simply relax and meditate. Just a short drive to the city of Bilbao (35 km). The hotel has been awarded the ‘Q’ for quality by the Spanish Tourist Board.
Hotel Facilities
- restaurant
- tour booking desk
- parking
- meeting room
- sauna
- conference hall
- internet
- bar
- garden
- children's playground
- massage
- bicycling
- fax
Room Details
- heating
- terrace or balcony
- fully equipped bathroom
- internet access
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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.