Hotel Rural Enrique Calvillo

The Hotel Enrique Calvillo is a family hotel at Avenida Diputación, 5, in El Bosque, beside the Majaceite river, at the entrance to the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park. It is, above all, a restaurant with rooms: the restaurant has been going since 1975 and is what made the family name famous. Besides the hotel, the family rents three country houses with pools in the sierra.

Rustic rooms above the restaurant

The rooms are rustic in style, with tiled floors and wooden beams, a private bathroom with hairdryer, air conditioning, heating, a fridge, a flat-screen television and free wifi. Breakfast is served in the restaurant. Booking on the website gets a 5% discount, and from Sunday to Thursday a minimum of two nights is required. Prices appear in its search engine for each date.

A kitchen since 1975

The Enrique Calvillo restaurant cooks Andalusian and Cádiz sierra dishes, mixing traditional recipes with new creations and local produce, with a menu made each day. It has three rooms, a dining room with a fireplace and two terraces, and also serves tapas. If you sleep here, dining downstairs is the natural thing to do.

Help with permit trails

What sets this house apart for anyone who comes to walk is that the hotel gives information on the park's routes and, on request, arranges access to the restricted trails, the reserve-zone ones that need authorisation: El Pinsapar, the Garganta Verde, El Torreón and the Llanos del Rabel. Ask when booking, because the authorisation is processed in advance and in summer some of them close.

Without a permit, from the door you have the Majaceite river trail, which leaves El Bosque and follows the river to Benamahoma. The El Bosque Visitor Centre, where permits are requested, is in the same village.

The three country houses

For families or groups, the hotel has three country houses in the Sierra de Grazalema, all with pools. They are booked from the same website, in their own section.

Getting to El Bosque

El Bosque is on the A-372, the road linking Arcos de la Frontera with Grazalema via Benamahoma: it is the western entrance to the park and the first village of the sierra if you come from Seville or Jerez. The website does not say whether pets are allowed, nor the check-in and check-out times; ask on 956 71 61 05.