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If you're going to spend money on a hotel, pony up to one of Spain's premier culinary arts school and restaurant. The hotel, itself, was an afterthought with its mere seven rooms, but it was a long one. Surrounded by Seville's most elegant crystal dining rooms, not one detail was forgotten in the four-star establishment that's centrally located between the Cathedral and the Plaza de Toros.
The original building is a 19th-century house that belonged to a famous Spanish poet, J. Antonio Cavestany of the Real Academia Española ("A la sobra de la Giralda"). It was here where the Andalusian bard was born, lived, and died. Can this get any more romantic?
Sure—just check out the bedrooms, each named after a different city in Andalusia. Upstairs a grandfather staircase slated with eerie 19th-century portraits, attic rooms with slanted ceilings surround a botanical interior back patio. (Unfortunately, the air up there gets really hot, and the manager who showed us around had to open the windows.) Spanish embroidered shawls decorated the banisters. Terrycloth robes are folded on floral beds. Heavy wood-piece sink stands command attention in the bathrooms.
Raise your Visa, and say cheers, sporto! Breakfast is included. In the downstairs patio you'll find a bar and a cafeteria bistro.
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