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Tordesillas Parador
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 Tordesillas
Parador, like Manzanares, is built at one
of Spain's main crossroads. The Romans designed this road system in which roads
joining East and West and North and South meet at Tordesillas. The parador of
Tordesillas is a comfortable hotel, set in peaceful surroundings in a pine grove
on the outskirts of Tordesillas and just next to the River Duero.
Because
it is relatively near Madrid, Tordesillas Parador is in high demand, so make sure
you book in advance. Rooms have internet access (quite a novelty as most paradors
still don't have this facility), and the parador has a swimming pool (during the
Summer months), a pleasant garden and a tennis court. | Tordesillas
Parador
(62 rooms)
(****) | | Conservation |
Good | | Restaurant | Fair | | Price:Quality | Good | Carretera
de Salamanca, 5 Tordesillas
| Tel.:
+34 983 770 051 | Fax:
+34 983 771 013 |
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 Tordesillas
Parador has helpful staff, and the hotel is clean and pleasant. Rooms are spacious.
The restaurant food is okay, but not brilliant. We found Tordesillas pleasant
and certainly good value (it is possibly the cheapest 4 star parador), but maybe
lacking in that special something that makes a stay in a parador unforgettable. The
parador is very near the majestic River Duero - you just have to cross the road
and a bit of wasteland to find a river-side path. This river gives its name to
the famous Duero white wines. In Spring Tordesillas is home to hundreds of migrating
storks who build their big nests on the top of all the town's highest points and
fly over the town dangling their long legs as they come in to land. The
town of Tordesillas is famous because it was here that in 1495 the kings of
Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas aimed at clarifying any confusion
about which country could claim which areas of land discovered in the New World.
In the agreement, the two countries drew an imaginary line between the mid-Atlantic,
100 leagues (480 km) from the Cape Verde islands and agreed that Spain would have
possession of any unclaimed territories to the west of the line and Portugal would
have possession of any unclaimed territory to the east of the line. See Photos
of Tordesillas and Photos
of Medina del Campo. |
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