El Somni Bed and Breakfast

Hotel Type: Bed & Breakfast

Environment: Countryside

Number of Rooms: 6

Style: Stylish

Prices: from 60.00 EUR to 190.00 EUR

If you’re looking for something off the beaten track in Spain then El Somni could well be it.

Lovers of silence, nature and art will feel entirely at home here, nestled in an undiscovered medieval village underneath the Gavarres National Park and just 20 minutes from the coves of the Costa Brava that haven’t, thankfully, been subjected to mass tourism.

This is a story about a building from the 1600s and its owners. An (Italian) boy meets a Catalan girl when he opens his exhibition in Barcelona. Boy and girl fall in love, travel around Britain staying in traditional B&Bs and return to Spain to find a little piece of paradise in a village that hasn’t heard of tourists. They restore the house they’ve bought and create six beautiful bedrooms adding much of their own contemporary art as well as works by other Catalan artists. Dense and deep colours in the house create a sense of warm, home-like comfort.

In the garden they add a patio with loungers (a great little spot to take breakfast or an aperativo later in the evening) and let the bougainvillea grow and spread around the terrace. Views are of the mountains around and the Romanesque convent of Sant Miquel dating back to 904. Sandro and Anna have put their all into what they call their Bed and Breakfast (though this is not just the standard B&B but something much more special, along the lines of a design hotel in miniature though more relaxed and more honest too). To top it off the house is in a village, Cruïlles, that absolutely does not cater for tourists; it’s all been left for you pretty much as it ever was.

Please note that regardless of the price shown, if the weekend is a bank holiday or “puente” in Spanish, High Season tariffs apply.

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