HOTEL FACILITIES & SERVICES: On the ground floor you will find the reception area and cafe - bistro, together with the wood-panelled library complete with guidebooks, papers and magazines for your use. Fires are lit in our three large stone fireplaces every night, along with an abundance of candles, creating a warm and cosy atmosphere, reminiscent of colonial life. Here you can relax in the comfortable leather armchairs, glass of wine in hand, basking in the warmth of a crackling wood fire.

From the reception area an open-gallery staircase leads to 15 of our 26 bedrooms. Each room has been individually designed in keeping with the style of the house and has its own en suite bathroom. Different artists have painted modern frescoes throughout the hotel, adding to its already unique style.

Once inside, you will immediately be seduced by the overall atmosphere of conviviality: the perfect mix of home comfort, the right level of discreet service, plus our own touch of eclectic culture. Indeed, while all of our rooms have individual features, some are more special than others with their own fireplaces, or perhaps a sunken bath. Our honeymoon suite boasts its own balcony - a conservatory converted into a dream-like bathroom with an antique tub.

Ever since its opening, the unparalleled bistro-style cuisine at Café Cultura has become legendary among local trendies and foreigners alike. The flavours of freshly baked breads, home-made jams, pastries and more never fail to delight the palette of our clientele, whose sense of taste and style motivates our staff to create masterpieces daily.

The café-bistro is open from 7 am to 9.30 pm, for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Our chef decides the daily menu with verve and originality, always bringing new and exciting tastes and aromas to satisfy your nouvelle-cuisine, gourmet, vegetarian or other exotic appetites. Meals are accompanied by freshly-squeezed fruit juices -- passion fruit, papaya or a seasonal endemic fruit perhaps -- or a fine South American wine, or even a classic from the Old World. Come in and check our blackboard for today's specials!

The wood-panelled library is replete with guidebooks, newspapers and magazines, as well as our famous (and often hilarious!) "The Good, Bad and the Ugly" guestbooks. A fire is lit in the library's imposing stone fireplace every night, along with an abundance of candles. The resulting warm, cosy atmosphere is redolent of colonial life. Here you can relax in the comfortble leather armchairs, glass of wine in hand, basking in the warmth of the crackling wood fire. The library will soon include computer terminals with access to the Internet.