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Paradores hotels

Spain's state inns turn castles and monasteries into stays, with regional cooking at the table.

Paradores lets guests stay within Spain’s architectural heritage, with hotels in castles, monasteries, palaces, and buildings chosen for their remarkable views. The state-owned network began at Gredos in 1928, and regional cooking remains an essential part of experiencing the places these houses belong to.

101 Paradores hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas (1 not open yet), each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by the Spanish state
• Worldwide: 101 houses on the public atlas, almost all in Spain, plus Casa da Ínsua in Portugal. Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla are in the set
• On the atlas: 20 Core Luxury, 65 Accessible Luxury, 16 Near Luxury

History

Paradores’ range makes geography and architecture part of choosing a stay. Granada places guests within the Alhambra, Toledo looks back toward the city from across the Tagus, and Hondarribia occupies the Castle of Charles V. In Cáceres, the Palacio de Torreorgaz gives the network a house within the historic stone town.

Timeline

• 1928 — On 9 October, Alfonso XIII opens the Parador de Gredos at Navarredonda. Architect Emilio Moya. Zenobia Camprubí works on the rooms. Seventy-four keys now. The drafters of the 1978 constitution later use the Salón del Silencio.
• 1499 — Ferdinand and Isabella commission the pilgrims' hospital in Santiago, the building that will become the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos. Enrique Egas takes a decade. It opens as a hotel in 1954 and joins Paradores in 1986. One hundred thirty-seven rooms, four cloisters, the largest house in the network.
• 1965 — In July the Hostal de San Marcos in León reopens as a hotel. The Plateresque convent and pilgrims' hospital had also been a prison, including for Francisco de Quevedo from 1639 to 1643. Fifty-one rooms in the current file.
• 1966 — A coastal wave: Aiguablava above its cove on the Costa Brava, Baiona in the Monterreal fortress (122 rooms, the Conde de Gondomar), and other modern paradors of that decade.
• 1976 — José Luis Picardo's Parador de Carmona opens in a corner of Pedro I's Mudéjar palace. Sixty-three rooms over the Vega. Andalusia's statute of autonomy is drafted here in 1981. The same year Picardo opens Cardona, 54 rooms in the dukes' castle, with the 11th-century church of San Vicente beside the Maiden's Tower.
• 1978 — The castle of Sigüenza, a bishop's fortress on a Roman and Moorish site, opens as a parador.
• 1994 — Ronda's old town hall, an 18th-century Casa Consistorial that had also been a market, becomes the parador on the lip of El Tajo, beside the Puente Nuevo.
• 2020 — On 25 June, Alfonso Penela's Parador de Costa da Morte opens at Muxía: 63 rooms stepped into the Lourido hillside, green roofs, a pool toward the Atlantic, near Fisterra.
• 2025 — On 14 May, Molina de Aragón opens, 24 rooms in a new building facing the castle, then called the 98th parador. On 9 May, Sigüenza reopens after a closure that began in October 2024.
• 2026 — Ibiza is inaugurated on 23 February and opens to guests on 10 March, inside the 16th-century Almudaina of Dalt Vila. Veruela, the Cistercian monastery at the foot of Moncayo, is still being finished in June.

The houses to know

1. Parador de Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain — The Almudaina inside Dalt Vila, 16th-century walls, the first Parador in the Balearics.
2. Parador de Oropesa, Oropesa, Spain — The hotel is in Oropesa, Spain.
3. Parador de Ciudad Rodrigo, Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain — Enrique II's alcazar from 1372, keep about 17 metres, a Parador since 1931, one of the oldest houses in the network.
4. Parador de Trujillo, Trujillo, Spain — Santa Clara, Franciscan nuns until 1984, a 16th-century convent with a Renaissance cloister, fifty rooms.
5. Parador de Argómaniz, Argómaniz, Spain — Palacio de los Larrea, 1712, a French headquarters in the Peninsular War, Parador from 1978, 53 rooms over the Alava plain.
6. Parador de Zafra, Zafra, Spain — Alcazar of the Dukes of Feria from 1437, a monument from 1931, Cortes slept here before the Americas.
7. Parador de Lorca, Lorca, Spain — Built 2007 to 2012 on Lorca Castle hill.
8. Parador de Corias, Cangas del Narcea, Spain — San Juan Bautista from 1032, the Escorial of Asturias, a National Monument from 1982.
9. Parador de El Saler, El Saler, Spain — The Parador de El Saler sits within the Albufera Natural Park south of Valencia, amid pine woods and dunes beside the Mediterranean.
10. Parador de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain — Colegio de Santo Tomas from the 1590s, a prison, a fire, then Aranguren and Gallegos' 128-room Parador from 23 July 2009.

Newest openings

• Parador de Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain, inaugurated on 23 February 2026 and opened to guests on 10 March 2026. The 16th-century Almudaina in Dalt Vila, UNESCO walls, the first parador in the Balearics. A patio de armas, a small auditorium toward the cathedral, a pool, and a wellness room are part of the opening description. Turespaña and Paradores put tens of millions into the fortress and the dig. The atlas files 66 rooms. The ministry's opening note said 41 guest rooms.
• Parador de Molina de Aragón, Molina de Aragón, Spain, opened on 14 May 2025. Twenty-four rooms, 22 standard and two with a sitting room, every one looking at the castle. A new building on the high side of town, three floors, a restaurant on local cooking, a terrace, and a wellness room. A photograph by Eduardo Nave is the main artwork. It was announced as the 98th parador, a step toward 100 for the 2028 centenary. The hotel file's later "November 2025" date is the same house. The doors opened in May.

Opening next

• Parador de Veruela — Vera de Moncayo, Zaragoza, Spain — opening date unconfirmed — The planned parador occupies a Cistercian monastery founded in 1146 at the foot of Moncayo. Plans published in 2025 called for about 80 rooms over four floors and a spring 2026 opening. The government said on 18 June 2026 that work was still being completed; a later opening date has not been confirmed in our sources.

Every Paradores hotel on the atlas

Spain

• Parador de Alcalá de Henares — Alcalá de Henares · Core Luxury
• Parador de Argómaniz — Argómaniz · Core Luxury
• Parador de Cardona — Cardona · Core Luxury
• Parador de Carmona — Carmona · Core Luxury
• Parador de Castillo de Monterrei — Monterrei · Core Luxury
• Parador de Ciudad Rodrigo — Ciudad Rodrigo · Core Luxury
• Parador de Corias — Cangas del Narcea · Core Luxury
• Parador de Costa da Morte — Muxía · Core Luxury
• Parador de El Saler — El Saler · Core Luxury
• Parador de Ibiza — Ibiza · Core Luxury
• Parador de Jarandilla de la Vera — Jarandilla de la Vera · Core Luxury
• Parador de La Granja — San Ildefonso · Core Luxury
• Parador de Lorca — Lorca · Core Luxury
• Parador de Nerja — Nerja · Core Luxury
• Parador de Oropesa — Oropesa · Core Luxury
• Parador de Trujillo — Trujillo · Core Luxury
• Parador de Úbeda — Úbeda · Core Luxury
• Parador de Vilalba — Vilalba · Core Luxury
• Parador de Zafra — Zafra · Core Luxury
• Parador de Zamora — Zamora · Core Luxury
• Parador de Aiguablava — Begur · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Alarcón — Alarcón · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Albacete — Albacete · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Alcañiz — Alcañiz · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Almagro — Almagro · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Antequera — Antequera · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Arcos de la Frontera — Arcos de la Frontera · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Ávila — Ávila · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Ayamonte — Ayamonte · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Baiona — Baiona · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Benavente — Benavente · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cáceres — Cáceres · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cádiz — Cádiz · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cambados — Cambados · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cangas de Onís — Cangas de Onís · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cazorla — Cazorla · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cervera de Pisuerga — Cervera de Pisuerga · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Ceuta — Ceuta · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Chinchón — Chinchón · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Córdoba — Córdoba · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cruz de Tejeda — Tejeda · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Cuenca — Cuenca · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Granada — Granada · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Gredos — Navarredonda de Gredos · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Guadalupe — Guadalupe · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Hondarribia — Hondarribia · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Jaén — Jaén · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Jávea — Jávea · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de La Gomera — San Sebastián de La Gomera · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de La Palma — Breña Baja · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de La Seu d'Urgell — La Seu d'Urgell · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de León — León · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Lerma — Lerma · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Limpias — Limpias · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Lleida — Lleida · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Málaga Gibralfaro — Málaga · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Manzanares — Manzanares · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Mazagón — Mazagón · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Mérida — Mérida · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Mojácar — Mojácar · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Molina de Aragón — Molina de Aragón · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Monforte de Lemos — Monforte de Lemos · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Olite — Olite · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Plasencia — Plasencia · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Pontevedra — Pontevedra · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Puebla de Sanabria — Puebla de Sanabria · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Ronda — Ronda · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Salamanca — Salamanca · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Santiago de Compostela — Santiago de Compostela · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Santillana del Mar — Santillana del Mar · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Santillana Gil Blas — Santillana del Mar · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Santo Domingo de la Calzada — Santo Domingo de la Calzada · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Santo Estevo — Nogueira de Ramuín · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Segovia — Segovia · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Sigüenza — Sigüenza · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Sos del Rey Católico — Sos del Rey Católico · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Toledo — Toledo · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Tordesillas — Tordesillas · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Tortosa — Tortosa · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Tui — Tui · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Verín — Verín · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Veruela — Veruela · Accessible Luxury · Opening soon
• Parador de Vielha — Vielha · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Villafranca del Bierzo — Villafranca del Bierzo · Accessible Luxury
• Parador de Artiés — Artiés · Near Luxury
• Parador de Benicarló — Benicarló · Near Luxury
• Parador de Bielsa — Bielsa · Near Luxury
• Parador de Calahorra — Calahorra · Near Luxury
• Parador de El Hierro — Valverde · Near Luxury
• Parador de Ferrol — Ferrol · Near Luxury
• Parador de Fuente Dé — Fuente Dé · Near Luxury
• Parador de Gijón — Gijón · Near Luxury
• Parador de Las Cañadas del Teide — La Orotava · Near Luxury
• Parador de Málaga Golf — Málaga · Near Luxury
• Parador de Melilla — Melilla · Near Luxury
• Parador de Ribadeo — Ribadeo · Near Luxury
• Parador de Santo Domingo Bernardo de Fresneda — Santo Domingo de la Calzada · Near Luxury
• Parador de Soria — Soria · Near Luxury
• Parador de Teruel — Teruel · Near Luxury
• Parador de Vic-Sau — Sau · Near Luxury

Portugal

• Parador Casa da Ínsua — Penalva do Castelo · Accessible Luxury

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