La Posada de Don Mariano

The house

A small hotel inside the walled enclosure, at number 14 calle Mayor, the axis that links the Plaza Mayor with the castle. It is run by the Pascual family, from Pedraza for generations, and its name recalls Mariano Pascual (1902–2002). The facade is of stone, like the rest of the town, and inside the hotel plays with antique doors and furniture, fabrics and painted wallpapers, so that no two rooms are alike.

The rooms

There are 18, and each is named after a spot in the surrounding area: La Muñeca, Los Palacines, Los Colmenares, El Campillo, El Gurugú, El Enebral, Valdepinto, Carrascal, Los Alamares or Los Batanes, among others. All have wifi, telephone, television, heating, hairdryer and toiletries. Some have a four-poster bed. The website gives as a reference €105 for a double room and €118 for room 101, La Muñeca, VAT included, and warns that rates change with the season; booking is done from its online engine or by phone. It does not detail check-in and check-out times, pet policy or whether breakfast is included: ask when you book.

The Enebro restaurant

It is the other half of the house and a good reason to sleep here. The menu mixes local cooking with more elaborate dishes: judiones de La Granja with pork from the slaughter, Castilian soup, fried eggs with ham, scrambled eggs with wild mushrooms and wild asparagus, cod in pepper sauce, suckling pig roasted in a wood-fired oven (€22) and a quarter of suckling lamb roasted in a wood-fired oven for two (€60). There is a €32 menu of the day with a starter, main course, dessert, bread, house wine and water, and a special menu for two people at €85 with the lamb as the main dish.

The dining room is open for lunch from 14:00 to 16:00 and for dinner from 21:00 to 22:30. It closes on Sunday evening and all day Monday, and takes its holidays in the first half of January and the second half of June. If you arrive on a Sunday, book dinner elsewhere; if you arrive on a Monday, count on the hotel restaurant being closed.

Getting there and what to do nearby

Pedraza is visited on foot: the car is left in the car parks outside the wall and you enter by the village's only gate. Ask when you book how to get your luggage there. From the hotel you have two steps away the walk around the town, the Town Jail, next to the gate, and at the end of calle Mayor the Castle and Zuloaga Museum. If you are coming on the first two Saturdays of July, the Candle Concerts are the night when it is hardest to find a bed: book in good time.

The hotel also organises business meetings and groups, and gives information on activities in the area.