Palacio Urgoiti Hotel & Golf * * * *

Leisure activities:
An indoor swimming pool and a gym are also available for the use of the guests.

Restaurant

Overlooking the golf course, the restaurant offers a very pleasant atmosphere, where you can enjoy an elaborate cuisine based on the rich gastronomic tradition of the Basque Country.

Events

Palacio Urgoiti also offers a private dining room as well as several reception rooms for different types of events.

Meetings

Palacio Urgoiti offers three well equipped meeting rooms, all of which benefit from natural light and offer high speed wireless internet connection. These meeting rooms can accomodate large and small groups, from meetings for 5 persons to larger events, with a maximum seating capacity for 200 persons.

Golf

Palacio Urgoiti has developed a beautifully designed 9-hole Pitch & Putt golf course. Carefully integrated into the surrounding landscape of trees, rough and lakes, this Par 3 course provides hole length variations of 90-120 metres.

The site also features a putting green, a driving range and an approach area with a bunker. Excellent English speaking teachers are available for those wishing to learn or improve their golf skills.

Located in Laukariz, the Palace was entirely rebuilt in 2004 and 2005 after a lengthy and complicated identification and classification of all the stones that composed the original building. The construction of the highway Bilbao - Behovia led to the confiscation of the land and the imminent destruction of the Palace, which was then located in Galdakao. Don José María Solano, whose family has always owned this stately home, decided to take it down stone by stone, all of which were duly numerated.

The hangar where the stones were carefully stored was devastated by the terrible floodings of 1983 and part of the numbers on the stones, as well as the plans detailing the location of each stone, were lost or erased by the water. A very long and complicated study of all the stones was necessary in order to recompose this gigantic puzzle and rebuild it in order to convert it into what is today Palacio Urgoiti. This 17th century home has been rebuilt following the original style and layout of the palace and using many of the original doors and other decorative elements.