Double Room (2 persons, including breakfast): 85 €
Extra bed in room: 28 €
Dinner (available on request): 28 €
Prices for all rooms throughout the year (2004) are 85 euros (VAT included) for accomodation in a double room. Some are large enough for an extra bed (28 euros) This includes a hearty breakfast
Dinners are prepared on request by Ines, the Chilean housekeeper and cook (in the family service for 22 years and 7 different countries) Typical home-made specialities include courgette consome, garlic soup, pork, chicken or fresh fish and vegetables. Priced per person at 28 euros, the dinner includes a bottle of light, fruity, ruby-coloured local wine (produced by our neighbour), dessert, coffee and liquors
Characteristics
Inside:
dining room, DVD or video, fireplace, heating, Hi-fi, library, lounge, microwave, rooms with en-suite bathroom, selection of games, television, washing machine.
Services:
breakfast available, cot available, dinner service, information about the area, internet access, laundry service, pets allowed, (public) restaurant.
Situation:
isolated area, outside the village.
THE BEDROOMS
All 14 double bedrooms of the Finca have a bathroom with shower, central heating and views on the surrounding olive groves
The style is still reminiscent of the rustic atmosphere of ancient well-kept farms, but the newly decorated interiors reflect the delicate harmony between comfort and originality
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The owner´s comments
Finca Santa Marta, transformed into a country inn in 1994, is composed of three ancient farmhouses dating from the 18th century. Olive oil used to be produced in the old oil pressing unit or "almazara", presently converted into a large, beautifully decorated lounge and dining room.
The almazara still features a unique 1874 oil pressing machinery, as well as the huge granite cones which donkeys used to pull, crushing the olives. In another part of the farmhouse, the bodega is a fine example of an Extremadura winery where grapes used to be trampled. Under its vaulted ceilings, a unique set of 14 age-old clay wine casks (tinajas) still remain intact. Hooks remain on the brick ceilings where hams used to be cured.
The three "casas": Santa Marta, Santa Teresa and Los Alamos, now contain 14 different sized bedrooms, all with ensuite bathrooms. Each room has a different view on the neighbouring orchards, vineyards and olive groves in the surrounding hills. The access to each of these houses is through a traditional patio with orange trees, flower beds and scented jasmine.
The authentic atmosphere of the farm is best illustrated by the chapel on the patio, where until the seventies church services were celebrated for the family and the neighbouring farmers. Sunday Masses still occur on special occasions.
The swimming pool is a delight in summer, it is situated in a large garden area which stretches out to the surrounding orchards and vineyards. "30 hectares of peace and fabulous birdlife and flora." (Alastair Sawday guidebook). The whole Finca is framed by ancient slate stone walls, dutifully restored by old hands, giving a special charm to the hilly area..
Activities
Walking Trails, "Senderismo" in Spanish
Scenic views can be seen from the hilltops around Finca Santa Marta during one to four hour walks, with the charming village of San Clemente and its small white-washed church huddled against the olive grove covered slopes. Further on, views extend towards the profiled crest of Trujillo or on remote villages like Herguijuela or Conquista
One of the most attractive walks is along the small and untravelled road to Santa Cruz (6 km.) passing by the famous bull breeding farm, El Torreón. The peaceful, siesta taking bulls rest under the oak trees far away from the cows who they sadly will never be able to mate with.. Only the most courageous who´ve been exceptionally "graced" by the demanding public of Seville and Madrid are entitled to a return home. Three of these "indultados" now share the fertile pastures with the females
Interesting Places
Trujillo
The quality of light and the patina on the granite-built medieval town of Trujillo with its age-old roof tiles, sheltering 10,000 inhabitants, fascinate present day artists
Painters and artists of the Artists For Nature Foundation stayed at the Finca Santa Marta in Spring 1994, daily painting the great variety of birds circling above the pan-tiled roofs of Trujillo, home to lesser kestrels, swifts and white storks
Characteristics of Nature: The Dehesa
Finca Santa Marta´s visitors praise the vastness of the surrounding "dehesas", the scenic views from the silent roads winding through unspoilt nature and the dazzling beauty of wild lavender and red poppies covering hill after hill in springtime
"The dehesa is an astonishing landscape unique to the Iberian Peninsula but with echoes of other landscapes: orchards in France, parkland in southern England, olive groves in Greece or East African savannh" (Conservationist Nick Hammond, Artists for Nature Foundation)
Motorway E-90 or N-V towards the Portuguese border leads you to Trujillo (250 kms. or about 2 hours 15 mins driving) When you arrive exactly at the motorway signpost 253 km. and you can see Trujillo´s city profile on your right, take the road to Zorita and Guadalupe, now named Ex-208 (previously the C-524)
Continue for 14 kms. (about 9 minutes driving) until you reach signpost 89,5 (after the crossroad of Madrodñera on your left and after passing the road to San Clemente at your right) Finca Santa Marta is clearly indicated
Coming from Portugal:
Pass alongside the town of Badajoz, and continuing along the N-V, keep the town of Merida (see the superb Roman ruins and museum), and its famed Roman bridge, on your right
You eventually arrive (80 kms. further) at Trujillo. Take the road to Guadalupe Ex-208 (previously the C-524) See above for further directions to the Finca
Falta limpieza,
by: carmen
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casatorrox,
18/Sep/2007
Es un lugar bien conservado, pero falta limpieza en general es una lastima, mis niñas no pudieron dormir las dos noches que estuvimos alojados.
Los desayunos podrian ser mas completos y la cena ni se sabe. Recuerdos para Isabel
Twin room (2 beds)
Falta limpieza,
by: carmen
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