The hotel
is just in the confluence of the rivers Cega and
Vadillo, in Pedraza, province of Segovia, one hour away from Madrid, 35
Kms. from Segovia, 23 from Sepúlveda, 20 from "Hoces del
Duratón" and
about 50 of the winter sports resorts of the Pinilla, Cotos and
Navacerrada; but mainly,is right in the center of the
historical community of Villa and Tierra de Pedraza, where the
activities of the hotel are developed fundamentally.
18 small municipalities belong to the community. During centuries, they
maintained a really intense
administrative and social interrelation.
Their common spaces were reduced
to the Pine of Navafría, to the building of the Jail of Villa and
little more. In 1910 the Spanish Department of Interior
approved a regulation that guaranteed its continuity. This way arrived
at our days the spirit of millenarian customs. All these worries about the
protection of the common spaces made possible this beautiful reality which is
the Tierra de Pedraza.
In spite of that ancestral and common destiny the 18 municipalities have different characteristics: its physical location in the varied geography of the territory (occupying a valley, a slope, a plateau, next to the river or in a desert) its religious and festive experiences, their celebrations, their customs...
In the community we can admire vestiges of Castros, rest of roads and Roman villas, real gorges, romanesque churches. There are many references to this area in the Spanish medieval writings: Trajano, mío Cid, el Arcipreste de Hita... (and other personages of next centuries)
The
building where the hotel is placed has been
rehabilitated and is catalogued by the General Plan of Arrangement of
Pedraza as a traditional construction; it is the first building that, coming from
Segovia or Cantalejo,
appears when entering the District of
the Velilla. Although the building was deteriorated and great part of it was in
ruinous state, the architectonic configuration had all the elements
typically Castilian.
It has been restored with special respect to the space of
the living-room and the furnace, where his old proprietor,
Julian de Pedro, cattle dealer, roasted the lambs that
his neighbours ordered to celebrate on special occasions.