Hotel Rural El Cañón del Duratón

The house

El Cañón del Duratón is a family-run country hotel in Villaseca, a hamlet of Sepúlveda inside the Duratón River Gorges Natural Park and on the unavoidable route to the hermitage of San Frutos. It opened on 21 July 2006, after six years of building work. The building is entirely of local limestone, built on two adjoining old farmhouses, of which the two main entrances and the west facade were kept, which now separates the café and the dining room from the rest. The floors, columns, banisters and seven French fireplaces are of the same stone.

Rooms

It has 34 places in single, double, triple and quadruple rooms. All have a full bathroom, television and telephone, and four have a French fireplace. Each room is named after a place in the canyon, such as Cueva Lóbrega or Barranco la Perdida, and the website details the beds in each: there are doubles with two 90 cm beds and doubles with a 150 cm bed, many with a bathtub. La Cueva del Moro is adapted for guests with reduced mobility, with a wheelchair-ready bathroom. Pets are not accepted.

The website does not publish current rates: ask for the price and board when you book, on 921 129 635 or 633 902 379.

Eating in

The dining room has a wood-fired oven, a fireplace and seats 50, and serves traditional home cooking. The dishes the house highlights are roast lamb, free-range chicken, chorizo and lomo from the pot, the pulse stew, revuelto de rastrojos and garlic soups. The café serves guests at the bar all year; it is open continuously to the public from June to September, and the rest of the year at weekends, public holidays and holidays.

There are also sitting rooms for reading, playing games or watching a film, a garden and terraces for summer nights.

Who it is for

For families and groups who want to wake up next to the canyon and reach San Frutos before anyone else. The rooms for four suit a whole family, and having a dining room in the house solves dinner in a small village.

Getting there and what is nearby

It is at calle Pajosa, 7-9, in Villaseca. According to the house, Segovia is 40 minutes away and Madrid, Burgos and Valladolid an hour. From Villaseca the track leaves for the San Frutos car park, the starting point of the path to the hermitage of San Frutos. In the area you can do the canoe trip and other activities, always subject to the park's rules. Sepúlveda, with its Park Centre, is a few minutes away by car.