Barreal: Health and Welfare

Published: 07/15/2009 - Updated: 02/02/2014

The Barreal is a health and wellness center that provides therapeutic services whether you are staying at the Center as if you decide to take advantage of proximity and suitability. The Barreal lies in a strategic location in the peaceful and with the hospitable people of Quintana Ranero, next to the characteristics and historical cellars of the area. But also near the city of Leon (10 km) and its wide range of cultural, sports and cuisine. 4Km also is the Virgen del Camino Sanctuary with its much visited, and next to the Leon Golf Club where its passion is for this sport.

Inside the complex there are two distinct areas for therapeutic services.
In the main building is located the area of individualized activities for health: a massage room and special mud treatments with relaxing whirlpool tub and large shower. Qualified staff will be able to advise on the most appropriate treatment for the guest: relaxing massage, facial, back, circulatory, mud wrap.

The building is unique activities designed for group classes of Yoga, Tai Chi and Chi Kung, among others, for both adults and children. Ready to also hold seminars and lectures related to the activities of the center, as well as to conduct training courses to companies.

Stays

Stays are available so that you can feel the wellbeing and comfort you're looking for. Six spacious rooms with their own personality, decor and soul find rest and tranquility. Prodigy, Fall, Star and Cathedral are two spacious double rooms with comfortable bed..

All equipped with bathroom fitted, TV, stage floors natural bamboo roof in wood coated with organic and beautiful views of nearby Quintana Ranero and its environs.

A large and cozy dining room and large reading area with open fireplace and relaxing stays common supplement which you will enjoy.

The new trend: the farmhouse

Rural tourism is a tourism activity that takes place in a rural area, usually in small towns or out of town in larger towns. The facilities are old farmhouses and hamlets that have been modified and adapted, and are family run and offer quality service, sometimes by the same owners.

Rural tourism in Spain

Typically practiced in some areas and so must be set in historical buildings or traditional construction for the county. Within each category there are several types among which are:

Gite: a building where there are different rooms with common elements such as bathrooms, living room and kitchen. With some frequency, usually shared with the owners, but have a private area. In cases where the owners live, is often rented rooms (type hotel, with food service) or complete (house rent) for groups.

Accommodation of rural tourism like an apartment, but usually with differentiating elements of the rural areas (type of construction, decoration, etc.).. Often have its own kitchen, bathroom, living room and an undetermined number of bedrooms.

Rural: It can also be described as rural inn, or any of the names of the different counties or regions of Spain, and accommodations are usually larger, with a limited number of rooms (usually between 4 and 10, only limited in some Autonomous Communities) and have a restaurant, and daily cleaning service of rooms. The operation is similar to a conventional hotel, but with the limitations of their size.

Center for rural tourism: Usually corresponds to a small complex which has accommodation (possibly with different formulas), restaurant, facilities, equipment and monitors for the practice of nature activities.

Shelters: In different forms, rural youth, pilgrims, etc.. This is a cheaper form of accommodation for a younger population profile which generally have less privacy as the rooms tend to be more than three people.

The high proliferation of this form of tourism is causing a great increase in the supply of these, reaching the mass of some counties, as well as the occurrence of exercise activity so unorthodox, illegal and not even able recommended.

The marketing of rural accommodation takes place online through specialized web portals farmhouse, where the establishments are grouped according to their qualities, characteristics or locations.

How to arrive Centro de Turismo Rural Barreal

The road access is simple and direct from almost any point of origin, for example:
326 Km from Madrid by the A66 (exit 149) Bañeza The direction and the first diversion to the right or Chozas Armunia below and then Santovenia of Valdoncina.
From Oviedo to 126 km, by the A66

The Barreal 
C / Las Cuevas s / n
Quintana de Ranero (Santovenia of Valdocina)
24391 Leon
Phone: 987 281 260 / 630 501 543
www.elbarreal.es

Source: wikipedia

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  • Jorgelina Reyente

    Expert in healthy cooking recipes and healthy lifestyle habits. She has a degree in communication sciences from the University of Buenos Aires.  She has completed postgraduate training in social sciences at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University - Paris III, France.