La Casona de la Paca

An indiano mansion among meadows

La Casona de la Paca is a 19th-century indiano mansion, built by José Martínez, an emigrant who returned from America, and turned into a hotel in 1998. It is in El Pito, high above Cudillero, surrounded by meadows. Turismo Asturias classifies it as a three-star hotel. It is surrounded by a century-old garden in the indiano style, with magnolias, camellias, monkey puzzle trees and an oak about 400 years old, and a side terrace with benches.

Rooms and apartments

The hotel has nineteen rooms: singles, doubles, five doubles with a sitting room that look onto the garden and two suites, one with a terrace on the first floor and La Torre, right at the top, with a 360-degree terrace between the mountains and the sea. The attic rooms are on the third floor. Separately, in a building renovated in 2015, there are studios for a couple with a child and one-bedroom apartments with a kitchen for four people; they share the common areas and can have breakfast in the dining room.

The common areas are two lounges, one with a fireplace and bar and another with picture windows for the sunset, and a gallery. Breakfast is homemade: torrijas, casadielles, frixuelos, sponge cakes, cured meats and Asturian cheeses, eggs and fresh juice. Turismo Asturias gives indicative rates of €80 to €107 and breakfast extra, at €9.50.

How to get there and what is nearby

You arrive by car: the hotel is about a 15-minute walk from Cudillero port and 15 minutes by car from Asturias airport. Avilés is 20 minutes away, Gijón 40 and Oviedo 45, according to the hotel itself. The hotel runs on geothermal and solar energy.