THE HOTEL
Welcome
Would you like to discover a noble palace from the 17th century located at the heart of Castelló d’Empúries which breaths calm and serenity?
Would you like to relax at the Spa located at the old stables and, relieved of stress, stroll through the idyllic gardens of the Palace?
Would you like to repose in elegant, spacious and cosy rooms that maintain a careful harmony between the Palace’s historical legacy and contemporary design?
Would you like to float in the swimming pool while contemplating outstanding views from Santa Maria’s Basilica and connecting with your own emotions?
Would you like to perceive how light seeps through the stone walls of the centenarian cloister?
GET READY TO BEGIN TO LIVE YOUR DREAM!
THE HOTEL
Welcome
Would you like to discover a noble palace from the 17th century located at the heart of Castelló d’Empúries which breaths calm and serenity?
Would you like to relax at the Spa located at the old stables and, relieved of stress, stroll through the idyllic gardens of the Palace?
Would you like to repose in elegant, spacious and cosy rooms that maintain a careful harmony between the Palace’s historical legacy and contemporary design?
Would you like to float in the swimming pool while contemplating outstanding views from Santa Maria’s Basilica and connecting with your own emotions?
Would you like to perceive how light seeps through the stone walls of the centenarian cloister?
GET READY TO BEGIN TO LIVE YOUR DREAM!
History
Hotel Palau Macelli is located at the heart of Castelló d’Empúries, next to Santa Maria’s Basilica, the old convent of Santa Clara and the city walls. Its central location allows our customers to access, on foot, the most highlighted historical and tourist areas of the town. 10 minutes away, we find Empuriabrava, a residential marina surrounded by an extensive network of artificial canals.
Our fourteen rooms located in a historical building from the 17th century are distributed around a delicate and romantic inner courtyard. The white colour of the walls and furniture of these Mediterranean rooms contrast with the greenery of the Palau Macelli large garden. The climbing plants cover the Basilica’s wall that faces de garden, the buttresses of which can be seen from the swimming pool, located on the third floor of the hotel. It is a cosy and relaxing pool with spectacular views of the Basilica, the Massís del Montgrí, the Serra de Rodes and the Wetlands National Park of L’Empordà. On a clear day, it is possible to glimpse the Mediterranean Sea in the distance.
Encourage yourself to discover Palau Macelli, an harmonious and elegant space that invites you to tranquillity and happiness.
History
Hotel Palau Macelli is located at the heart of Castelló d’Empúries, next to Santa Maria’s Basilica, the old convent of Santa Clara and the city walls. Its central location allows our customers to access, on foot, the most highlighted historical and tourist areas of the town. 10 minutes away, we find Empuriabrava, a residential marina surrounded by an extensive network of artificial canals.
Our fourteen rooms located in a historical building from the 17th century are distributed around a delicate and romantic inner courtyard. The white colour of the walls and furniture of these Mediterranean rooms contrast with the greenery of the Palau Macelli large garden. The climbing plants cover the Basilica’s wall that faces de garden, the buttresses of which can be seen from the swimming pool, located on the third floor of the hotel. It is a cosy and relaxing pool with spectacular views of the Basilica, the Massís del Montgrí, the Serra de Rodes and the Wetlands National Park of L’Empordà. On a clear day, it is possible to glimpse the Mediterranean Sea in the distance.
Encourage yourself to discover Palau Macelli, an harmonious and elegant space that invites you to tranquillity and happiness.
The Rooms
Palau Macelli consists of 14 spacious, warm, and bright rooms spread over two floors around an interior cloister. Its architecture is the result of merging ancient vestiges of the 17th century with contemporary design.
Spaces
Palau Macelli features a swimming pool overlooking the Basilica’s buttresses, stained glass windows and rose windows; an interior cloister surrounded by columns and arches where you can relax while listening to the murmur of the fountain’s water and different interior and exterior communal areas suitable for each of the seasons.
Palau’s Gardens
Passeja’t pels Jardins del Palau Macelli i contempla les parets gòtiques de la Basílica. Asseguts als sillons del Jardí, tot prenent un còctel o un combinat podràs observar entremig de la verdor dels arbres i les plantes la bellesa del paisatge empordanès.
The Rooms
Palau Macelli consists of 14 spacious, warm, and bright rooms spread over two floors around an interior cloister. Its architecture is the result of merging ancient vestiges of the 17th century with contemporary design.
Spaces
Palau Macelli features a swimming pool overlooking the Basilica’s buttresses, stained glass windows and rose windows; an interior cloister surrounded by columns and arches where you can relax while listening to the murmur of the fountain’s water and different interior and exterior communal areas suitable for each of the seasons.
Palau’s Gardens
Take a walk through Palau Macelli garden and contemplate the Basilica’s Gothic walls. While having a cocktail or a glass of wine and between the greenery of the trees and the plants, you will be able to observe the beauty of the Empordà landscape.
A must see visits
If you like history and art
Hotel Palau Macelli is the ideal place to organize visits to some of the most emblematic places in the Empordà and the Costa Brava, such as the Gothic basilica of Santa Maria and the walls of Castelló d’Empúries (50 meters), the Romanesque monasteries of Vilabertran (11 Km), Sant Miquel de Fluvià (17 Km), Sant Pere de Rodes (20 Km), and Sant Quirze de Colera (22 Km), the castle and medieval town of Peralada (9 Km), the bridge and the medieval village of Besalú (39 Km), the church of Sant Tomàs de Fluvià and its Romanesque paintings (16 Km), the neo-medieval castle of Requesens (34 Km), the renaissance Ciutadella de Roses (15 Km), the medieval village of Sant Martí d’Empúries (17 Km), the Greco-Roman archeological ruins of Empúries (21 Km), the city of Girona, its cathedral and its Jewish quarter (52 Km), the Dalí museum in figueres (12 Km) and Dalí’s House-Museum in Port Lligat, Cadaqués (25 Km) or the prehistoric necropolises (dolmens, and menhirs) of the Serra de l’Albera and the Serra de Rodes (within a radius of 25 Km).
Sant Pere de Rodes
If you like culture
Hotel Palau Macelli is the ideal base camp to attend the best Costa Brava music festivals such as the Perelada International Music Festival ( 9 Km, July-August), the Schbertíada or Vilabertran Music Festival (11 Km, second fortnight of August), the Sons del Món Festival which combines music, gastronomy and oenology in Castelló d’Empúries and Roses Citadel (15 Km, summer), the Ecomuseum, the medieval festival Terra de Trobadors (first fortnight of September), and the Art Route (mid-October) in Castelló d’Empúries, the Antonio Machado’s house and tomb in Collioure (70 Km) or the representation of the Via Crucis and Passion of Christ in the historic centre of Castelló d’Empúries (Easter).
Festival de Música de Peralada
If you like nature
Hotel Palau Macelli is the ideal place to organize excursions to wonderful and magical places of the Costa Brava and the Empordà, such as the wetlands National Park of L’Empordà and its varied native fauna (5 Km), the Cap de Creus Natural Park and its rugged landscape (24 Km), the volcanic zone of La Garrotxa (62 Km), the Montgrí National Park, the Medes Islands (30 Km), the Albera National Park (25 Km), the long and wide fine sand beaches of the Roses Bay (4 Km), wild inlets and its cliffs eroded by the Tramuntana wind (between 15 and 30 Km), the Butterfly Park (3 Km) with its tropical gardens and exotic animals (butterflies, toucans, turtles, parrots etc.), and the Albera turtle breeding centre (12 Km).
Parc Natural del Aiguamolls de l’Empordà
If you like Costa Brava
Hotel Palau Macelli is the best base camp to enjoy the tranquillity of the romantic and well-preserved fishing villages of Port de la Selva (23 Km) and Cadaqués (24 Km), the nightlife of Roses (15 Km), and Empuriabrava and its canals (5 Km). For those looking for glamour can spend an evening in the Castle of Peralada casino (9 Km), share a dinner with friends in a Michelin star restaurant or practice golf, horse riding or water sports in the different facilities within the Costa Brava. You can also taste the amazing Empordà DO wines and visit the vineyards and wineries where they are made.
El Port de la Selva