Hotel Abadía de los Templarios

The Abadía de los Templarios is a ten-hectare complex a little over a kilometre from the Plaza Mayor of La Alberca, inspired by a medieval abbey: a superior four-star hotel and 47 villas among gardens and lakes, with the Sierra de Francia and the Las Batuecas Natural Park all around. It has a thousand-square-metre spa, an outdoor pool, four restaurants and organised activities.

Rooms with fireplaces

All the hotel's rooms have a fireplace; lighting it is a separate service, requested at reception until 22:00 and costing €15. The published prices are indicative, from:

• Attic room: 25 m², sloping wooden ceiling, from €155 a night.
• Junior suite with balcony: 35 m², with living room and a balcony facing the sierra, from €182.
• Junior suite with terrace: 35 m², with a terrace facing the sierra, from €193.
• Two-bedroom suite: 50 m², living room with fireplace, a double bedroom with balcony and another with two beds; designed for families, from €285.
• Presidential suite: 120 m², two bedrooms, round hot tub, a 150 m² terrace and a 40 m² private pool, from €500.

The villas, with your dog

The 47 villas are two-storey houses with a living room and fireplace. The standard, of 100 m², is for two or three people (from €138); the deluxe, of 125 m², for two to four (from €182). The villas accept pets, with a charge of €12 per night; the website does not offer this in the hotel rooms.

Acueducto Spa

The spa has a ninety-minute thermal circuit: foot bath, dry sauna and steam bath, cold plunge pool at 10 ºC, showers, jacuzzi at 36 ºC, thermal pool at 31-32 ºC and a flotarium with Dead Sea salts. There are massages and à la carte treatments. Book on 923 423 116, from 10:30 to 13:30 and from 16:30 to 20:30.

Pool, courts and children

The outdoor pool, El Lago, imitates a natural pool. There are free tennis and padel courts, a gym, a reading room, a children's playroom and play area, and a nightclub set apart from the rooms. The hotel organises quads with an instructor (€45 single, €60 double), buggies, one-hour horse rides, archery, bicycles and, for groups, canoeing on the Alagón or balloon flights.

Eating

In the complex, the Las Bóvedas restaurant, facing the sierra, and the Mudéjar café; on the Plaza Mayor, the grill of the same group, La Catedral, with kid and lamb from the wood-fired oven.

Conditions

Check-in from 15:00 and check-out before 12:00. A card is taken when you book; cancelling with less than 72 hours' notice incurs the full charge. On offers, children under 12 sleeping with two adults get a 50% discount.

To explore the area, the old town of La Alberca is a walk away and the Peña de Francia half an hour by car.