El Portal de Alquezar

One finds the HOTEL MARIBEL in Calle Arrabal, next to the beginning of the village of Alquézar’s main street. This is one of the most outstanding and interesting villages in Aragon, both for its architecture and medieval design as well as being situated in the spectacular countryside of the National Park of the Sierra de Guara. Above the village and presiding over it with singular beauty is the collegiate church built in the 16th century, and its castle of Moorish origins (declared to be an historic and artistic monument in 1931 while the centre around it was so declared in 1982).The hotel building integrates with the village and the construction is typical and traditional to the Somontano area.The front of the house has a façade of semi-circular arches which are surrounded by a framework of carefully worked stone characteristic of the area. Its upper floors are made of hand-made bricks and coverings of pigmented plaster carried out by artisans. The building is finished off with arched and rebated sections in the form of suntraps, protected by an overhanging soffit made of good wood-carving pieces. The façade is finished off with forged iron making the whole building singularly attractive.The spaces conceived in the interior of the hotel are situated around the staircase and patio: on the ground floor are the communal areas such as; reception, dining-room, lounge and café, while on the upper floors there are the ample rooms each with its own different atmosphere.The old masonry, the plaster and the selected finishes, the uneven ceilings, the cylindrical beams and the solid parquet flooring in noble woods, give the interior spaces and corners a feeling of charm, inviting one to enjoy it all. Photos of the communal areas are shown in the following section. If you wish to enlarge the photo, just click on it.