Fervenza Casa Grande & Restaurante

This little hotel and restaurant is an old house, born in the XVII century, the ancient house of a miller. The hotel is placed at the bottom of Miño river, the main river of Galicia, “the country of the one thousand rivers”, as Galicia is known. A very old indigenous forest is also beside the hotel. Fervenza forest is a flooding forest, with oaks dated more than three hundred years old, and monumental alders, perhaps the biggest in Spain. Old trees and little lakes and puddles make an unusual landscape. Casa Grande da Fervenza has been awarded in 2007 with the Forest of the year national award 2007, because of the permanent fight of the owners to preserve that magnificent forest. An old damp field has been changed to a natural lake, where ducks come flying each year.Trekking paths part from the hotel to the forest, along river Miño and its typical and forested islands, with more than 36 km. long. The hotel has also prepared a natural bath and “spa” area at the mill’s weir. The hotel has also got a new swimming pool, made with old stone. This offer is completed with an interesting ethnographic museum, where visitors may see old traditions, working as they did three hundred years ago, included the old watermill, forge, ancient looms, sharpening stone, and so on.The old straw loft was changed in 1996 to Fervenza restaurant, where visitors may taste traditional Galician food, with a little bit of innovation. The immemorial wood oven, where rye bread was made, is now working as it did, and we cook on it restaurant specialties.