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The Westin Valencia
Valencia, Spain · Westin · Accessible Luxury
Valencia's most impressive hotel building started life as a wool factory. La Lanera Valenciana went up between 1917 and 1921 on ground cleared for the 1909 Regional Exposition, Alfonso Garin Ortola drawing the modernista skin while Demetrio Ribes engineered one of the first reinforced-concrete frames in the city; the old company lettering and the architect's name are still cut into the chamfered corner on Amadeo de Saboya. It spent later decades as police headquarters and a fire station. Westin took it in 2006, and the factory's central yard is now 2,000 square metres of orange, olive and cypress trees.
- 135 rooms
- Opened 2006
- Neighborhood: Pla del Real
- Rooms from 484 sq ft (45 m²)
- Architect: Alfonso Garin Ortola, with the reinforced-concrete structure by Demetrio Ribes and Joaquin Coloma (1917-1921); hotel conversion by Jose Maria Tomas Llavador
About The Westin Valencia
- The eleven-metre Canary Island palm at the centre of the garden dates from La Lanera itself and was kept in place when the factory yard became a hotel courtyard.
- La Lanera was among the first reinforced-concrete buildings in Valencia, its structure engineered with Demetrio Ribes, the architect of the city's Estacio del Nord.
- Between the wool trade and the hotel, the building served as Valencia's local police headquarters and its fire station.
- The plot had carried two pavilions of the 1909 Regional Exposition, the Gran Casino and part of the Gran Pista, before the factory took their place.
- The city of Valencia still owns the building. It granted a 75-year concession over the hotel operation, which is why the Westin here sits on municipal property.
History
The Westin Valencia occupies the former Industria Lanera Valenciana, the wool factory also known as Lanas Marin after its owner Vicente Marin Gomez. Construction began in 1917 on land recently laid out for the 1909 Regional Exposition and the 1910 National Exposition, taking the plots of two of the fair pavilions, the Gran Casino and part of the Gran Pista, and finished in 1921. Alfonso Garin Ortola was the architect, the reinforced-concrete structure was entrusted to the firm of Demetrio Ribes and Joaquin Coloma, and Francisco Zamorano built it. The result is a Valencian modernista block filling almost an entire city block around a central courtyard, classicist in composition with secessionist ornament in the spandrels and cornices, and one of the earliest reinforced-concrete buildings in the city. It is listed as a Bien de Relevancia Local.
The factory later became the local police headquarters and a fire station. The city of Valencia, which owns the building, granted a 75-year concession for hotel use; after an initial award fell through, Bankia took over the project through the company Hotel Alameda in 2003. The conversion by Jose Maria Tomas Llavador kept the facades, the roof typology and the ring-shaped volume, inserting a new building inside the restored original skin at a cost of some 21.2 million euros across 20,800 square metres. It opened in 2006 under Starwood as The Westin Valencia, with 135 rooms and suites in an Art Deco register. In 2013 Bankia transferred Hotel Alameda to the Side Hotels group.
The setting
The hotel stands on Carrer d'Amadeu de Savoia in Pla del Real, the district that grew out of the 1909 Regional Exposition on the far side of the old Turia riverbed. The Jardines de Monforte, the Museo de Bellas Artes and the Viveros gardens are all close, the Mestalla stadium is a short walk, and the dry riverbed park runs from here down to the City of Arts and Sciences at one end and the old town at the other. Inside the building, the former factory courtyard is now a Mediterranean garden of roughly 2,000 square metres with an Arab-inspired fountain, orange, lemon, olive and cypress trees, open to non-residents as well as guests.
Amenities
- Indoor swimming pool
- Non-smoking rooms
- Airport shuttle
- Spa and wellness center
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Fitness center
- Room service
- Restaurant
- Bar
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