Palacio de Flórez-Estrada

Top choice in Asturias


Cosy rooms occupy a 15th-century tower and the 18th-century main house at this gorgeous, olde-worlde riverside mansion in sprawling gardens. Breakfast emphasises organic and fair-trade foods, and the owner hosts musical evenings, arts events, yoga courses and ornithology seminars.

There are also four two-person apartments inside revamped stables on the same pretty site.


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