Gran Hotel Balneario Palacio de las Salinas

The hotel and spa Palacio de las Salinas is a unique fited edi which has all amenities. Open all year, the hotel disponde 64 rooms which have been decorated aimed to create a warm, comfortable and bright environment.

With more than 5,000 m2 of facilities and 80,000 m2 of gardens, we offer a unique and comprehensive option for rest-we have more than four kilometers of walks, routes between lakes, waterfalls, shady corners, benches, gazebos, all accompanied by a rich vegetation of pine, oak, aspen, poplar etc ...

Since the s. XVII there are references that in the wilderness of Salinas (current situation Palace) happened that in the rainy season water embalsaba once the ground is saturated and the passing of the days, as evaporated per share the sun and the air, appeared a whitish sediment, which was nothing but salt deposits; hence the name 'Las Salinas'.

Some people came to apply these salts by the body and to bathe in the natural pools during spring and summer. It was the news that there skin diseases and other ailments of the bones and joints extending healed.

In 1891 the spa opened, being a little hotel with a bathhouse equipped with marble basins for bathing sick. Its first owner was called D. Manuel Ortiz de Pinedo. In that year and was attended by a doctor of the National Body of Bath, who treated patients from July to September. At that time there were four springs of medicinal mineral water that were called: Santa Elisa, Manolito, Antia, Tenacity (the latter some have called Trinidad)

In 1893 Mr. Manuel Ortiz got the Declaration O cial Water Public Utility by Royal Order of March 3, 1893, for each of the four springs and soon after the declaration, also by Royal Order of medicinal mineral waters . Already begun the twentieth century, a corporation chaired by D. Francisco Belloso medinense than great hotel (edi current cio) launched in 1912 whose architectural design was done by the same architects who built the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander.