Casa Beatnik

[peregrina2000]

I was just looking at some lodging options around Ponte Ulla, and saw that what used to be the Pazo dos Galegos has a new life as Casa Beatnik. In had a long multi-generational history as a family estate and winery. It got a Xunta grant to transform the home into a hotel. I had never stayed there, but got a tour once (around 2015, I think) and learned the history from the daughter, who had moved back to help with the project. It was charming, beautiful, traditional stone house, with a restaurant adjacent to the winery. About a ten minute walk downhill from the Outeiro albergue. Then a few years later it closed.

Well it has a new life, Casa Beatnik.

Casa Beatnik Country House

Nestled in Spain’s Rías Baixas wine region, Casa Beatnik Hotel is a new destination hotel created by Bonhomme, an award-winning design studio and hospitality group. Casa Beatnik Hotel’s maiden property, a Country House, offers guests seven acres of bespoke bohemian luxury, wellness retreats and insp

casabeatnik.com

I realize now that I actually saw this new place when I was taking a taxi from Lestedo to the Monastery of Carboeiro to visit the monastery. I remember the cab driver telling me that some people from Chicago had bought the closed Pazo and had turned it into some kind of luxury place. He said there had been a big uproar about the color of the building, and that local people thought some special deal had been given to allow the new owners to ignore historic preservation rules.

I did not connect this fancy new place with the stately old Pazo dos Galegos until just now, what a surprise! Rooms on their website range around 160-180, and luxury yurts are available. Get your reservations in while there is still availability!

 

[wisepilgrim]

I was just looking at some lodging options around Ponte Ulla, and saw that what used to be the Pazo dos Galegos has a new life as Casa Beatnik. In had a long multi-generational history as a family estate and winery. It got a Xunta grant to transform the home into a hotel. I had never stayed there, but got a tour once (around 2015, I think) and learned the history from the daughter, who had moved back to help with the project. It was charming, beautiful, traditional stone house, with a restaurant adjacent to the winery. About a ten minute walk downhill from the Outeiro albergue. Then a few years later it closed.

Well it has a new life, Casa Beatnik.

Casa Beatnik Country House

Nestled in Spain’s Rías Baixas wine region, Casa Beatnik Hotel is a new destination hotel created by Bonhomme, an award-winning design studio and hospitality group. Casa Beatnik Hotel’s maiden property, a Country House, offers guests seven acres of bespoke bohemian luxury, wellness retreats and insp

casabeatnik.com

I realize now that I actually saw this new place when I was taking a taxi from Lestedo to the Monastery of Carboeiro to visit the monastery. I remember the cab driver telling me that some people from Chicago had bought the closed Pazo and had turned it into some kind of luxury place. He said there had been a big uproar about the color of the building, and that local people thought some special deal had been given to allow the new owners to ignore historic preservation rules.

I did not connect this fancy new place with the stately old Pazo dos Galegos until just now, what a surprise! Rooms on their website range around 160-180, and luxury yurts are available. Get your reservations in while there is still availability!

We stayed in the yurts last summer, and while the surrounding gardens, restaurant, and price point was well above the usual pilgrim fare it was well worth the splurge.

 

[peregrina2000]

We stayed in the yurts last summer, and while the surrounding gardens, restaurant, and price point was well above the usual pilgrim fare it was well worth the splurge.

Wow! Just curious if you heard anything about the owners being from Chicago. We’re pretty staid here in the midwest, and this place seems quite extravagant.

 

[lt56ny]

I was just looking at some lodging options around Ponte Ulla, and saw that what used to be the Pazo dos Galegos has a new life as Casa Beatnik. In had a long multi-generational history as a family estate and winery. It got a Xunta grant to transform the home into a hotel. I had never stayed there, but got a tour once (around 2015, I think) and learned the history from the daughter, who had moved back to help with the project. It was charming, beautiful, traditional stone house, with a restaurant adjacent to the winery. About a ten minute walk downhill from the Outeiro albergue. Then a few years later it closed.

Well it has a new life, Casa Beatnik.

Casa Beatnik Country House

Nestled in Spain’s Rías Baixas wine region, Casa Beatnik Hotel is a new destination hotel created by Bonhomme, an award-winning design studio and hospitality group. Casa Beatnik Hotel’s maiden property, a Country House, offers guests seven acres of bespoke bohemian luxury, wellness retreats and insp

casabeatnik.com

I realize now that I actually saw this new place when I was taking a taxi from Lestedo to the Monastery of Carboeiro to visit the monastery. I remember the cab driver telling me that some people from Chicago had bought the closed Pazo and had turned it into some kind of luxury place. He said there had been a big uproar about the color of the building, and that local people thought some special deal had been given to allow the new owners to ignore historic preservation rules.

I did not connect this fancy new place with the stately old Pazo dos Galegos until just now, what a surprise! Rooms on their website range around 160-180, and luxury yurts are available. Get your reservations in while there is still availability!

I looked at the website and it is a beautiful place and seeing it I understand the high prices. I am not old enough to be a member of the beat generation. But I count Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Neil Cassidy, Leroi Jones, Gary Snyder and Ken Kesey to be great influences in my life. I was of the hippie generation but I was probably had way too much Bronx in me to considered a hippie. But the Beat Generation would have, without a doubt, rejected this hotel as grossly materialistic. Where would the beats have smoked their weed, gotten sick after they ingested their Peyote or Ayahuasca?
The hotel is really pretty but I don't think I would use the word bohemian to describe it. I wonder if they have a branch of the City Lights bookstore?? Just joking about all this but I do thin the name is really ill placed. But thanks for the story as it is interesting and I think I would of enjoyed going to the original hotel and speaking with the daughter.