Monasterio de Boltaña Spa

Spa

The Spa is decorated in keeping with the look and feel of the rest of the hotel: with warm, calm, comfortable spaces, fitted out with colonial-style furniture from the island of Bali.

The Sap facilities include:
- The Buddha Zone: for your welcome treatment.
- The Ara Waters Spa Circuit.
- Therapy Rooms:
   • Whit shower: for body and face treatment, wraps, body massages,

     Oriental techniques.
   • Without shower: for aesthetic treatments, massages, beauty.
- Hairdressing and Beauty Salon.
- The Grand Cloister: Private Mini Spa.
- Vichy Showers: with special teak-slat beds.
- Hydro-therapy Baths.
- Special Coleman Hydro-massage Bath: private bath for 2 to 5

  persons.
- Fitness Hall: with the best equipment in the market and fitness

  monitors to personalize your work-out.
- Bar with herbal teas and la carte waters.
- Tea Zone.

Gymnasium
Apart from all the treatments and the spa zone, our clients can also enjoy the fitness facilities next to the spa.
The gym is fully equipped with high-tech apparatus that can help you keep fit and trim.
A specialist team of monitors are there to help you find which exercises best suit you and how to use the apparatus correctly according to your needs. When you work out, you want to be sure it is only doing you good.

Cloister

The old Discalced Carmelite cloister has recovered its original splendor, now fitted out as a magnificent room cleverly divided up to feel snug and homely. Light floods in through a modern glass pyramid that covers the old patio, the best of old design combined with the best of the new.
Spacious and comfortable, you will find all the daily newspapers here to keep abreast of the latest events and follow your favorite sports.

Restaurant

The Marboré restaurant in Boltaña Monastery exudes the same calm atmosphere that you can enjoy throughout the rest of the hotel. An eye-catching Parisian picture hanging over huge, intriguingly shaped colonial-style tables welcome you into a generously proportioned space with superb natural lighting from its arched picture windows. Its atmosphere is warm and inviting.
On the lower floor is the Somontano Salon, the wine cellar.

Events

The restaurant organizes special gourmet events. If you are interested, feel free to ask us for further information.
The Marboré restaurant serves wedding banquets, cocktail parties on the terrace or in the garden, business meetings and any event that you want to organize in the hotel. From flower decorations to music, even the menu design is thoughtfully managed by the kitchen staff and the special event team.

Wine Cellar

Visit our wine cellar, one of the many marks of distinction in our hotel. Its 150 carefully selected wines include the most famous from around the world and the very best from here in Spain. Guests are delighted to discover the prestigious Somontano wines, of which our region is so justly proud.

Library

The Monastery's library provides a wonderful backdrop for small work meetings or just to sit around and enjoy a coffee or a drink. This high-ceilinged room measures 81,50 m² with exits onto the cafeteria terrace and the cloister.
Deep, commodious sofas break the space up for greater privacy.

Church
Typical of the Discalced Carmelite order, the Church of Camen in the Boltaña Monastery has been conserved in its pristine beauty. The church houses 17th, 18th and 19th century religious paintings from the San Victorian church, which have been carefully restored.
It provides a perfect space to celebrate your wedding, to host a classical-music concert, hold a special mass or put on special events.
The church can easily sit 300 guests in its benches, colonial wooden seats and in the choir.

Business

A new concept of leisure and business.
The Boltaña Spa Monastery is a perfect place for reward week-ends, business meetings, conventions and any kind of celebration. It is equipped with all necessary infrastructure, such as simultaneous translation equipment and state-of-the-art multimedia technology installed in all the meeting rooms and even in the 17th-century church.

Activities

- Routes on quads, buggies or 4x4, paintball,etc.
- Ordesa valley trek led by National Park guides.
- Guided visits to Ainsa with a monitor from the Ainsa Tourist Office;

  includes video on the Sobrarbe region.
- Visits to Somontano wineries

Sport Activities
A football pitch is strategically placed only a few metres from the hotel. Professional teams can play there, as it is full compliant with the regulatory measurements for European league football.
The pitch can be made available to teams staying at the hotel.
The hotel also has a physiotherapy room that teams can use for their players. The gym is also equipped with the kind of state-of-the-art equipment that professionals require.

Built in the mid-17th century by the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, the monastery was planned as a place to get away from the humdrum of everyday life and enjoy the beauty of Nature. The first people to settle Boltaña chose the valley for its fertile soil, the abundant water supply from its river and its sunny microclimate, protected from the northerly winds by the Pyrenees mountains. Although set inland at 600 metres above sea level, its weather conditions are more reminiscent of the temperate Mediterranean coast. The name Boltaña means 'place of beauty' or 'of tranquillity'.

The monastery was built on what had previously been the Hermitage of the Holy Spirit. The church lies directly above the old hermitage, in the typical style of the Discalced Carmelites.

The old cloister formed the heart of the building, focused around an open-air quadrangle surrounded by two stories of vaulted galleries. In this solid yet harmonious architectonic complex, friars and nuns could contemplate the patio through stone arches, protected from the elements.

When the Spanish parliament dispossessed all religious orders in the 1830's (albeit the law was withdrawn by a later government), the friars and nuns had to abandon the building. Its subsequent owners mainly used it as a centre for their arable and livestock farming activities.
In 1920 the building was bought and refurbished to provide medical and surgical treatment to people with lung diseases. The pure air and the benign climate made the monastery a perfect place to recuperate, especially with the Discalced Carmelites there to provide patients with nursing and support. However, diseases and treatments change and after 70 years as a sanatorium, the old building was turned over to the leisure sector, mainly for rural holidays and summer-camps.

Rescued from the inexorable passage of time, the Boltaña Monastery has now been reborn. Painstaking rehabilitation has restored its 17th-century architectural elegance. Each stone, each arch, each vault has been returned to its original splendour, where travellers can still seek beauty and peace.