Landa

The Landa family has been dedicating their lives to the hotel and catering business since the twentieth century: with the Real Club de Puerta de Hierro in Madrid and La Perla de San Sebastián until the 1930s, and later with La Gran Taberna, also in Madrid. The beginning of the Landa dates back to 1959; that ́s the year when a small restaurant, which was only two kilometres away from Burgos, was created. A restaurant where travellers who decided to drive on the old bumpy national road from the capital to the north of Spain, stopped to recharge their batteries. The Landa was born in difficult times for the Spanish hotel industry, especially outside the big cities; then, little by little, the hotel, its time as a Relais & Chateaux, the building of the swimming pool, the bar, the square and the tower started falling into place. A 14th century defence tower was moved and rebuilt stone by stone from Albillos, a village 20 kilometres from Burgos, and is the icon of Landa. (Hard work for sure, but worth every stone!)