Hotel guide · San Miguel-Capuchinos, Córdoba
A palace of courtyards in the north of Córdoba's old town, with a Roman house beneath the glass floor of its dining courtyard.
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01Is it for you?
02The hotel
The hotel occupies part of the Casa del Bailío, the town house of a branch of the Fernández de Córdoba family, built and rebuilt between the 16th and the 18th centuries around its courtyards. The house is protected as a monument, a Bien de Interés Cultural, and Andalusia’s tourism register files the hotel under the specialty it keeps for hotels in protected historic buildings.
In the middle of the last century the house’s owner, the archaeologist Rafael Castejón, dug a cellar under its baroque courtyard and found a Roman house, a domus of the 1st century AD. When the palace became a hotel, the cellar’s ceiling was replaced with glass, so that the remains can be seen from the courtyard above.
For the city around it, see our Córdoba page, and where to stay in Córdoba for our hotels compared side by side.
The rooms and suites are spread through the palace’s buildings, and the hotel has newly redesigned every one, in natural wood, soft textile panels and warm tones around the old architecture. The Dreamer’s rooms, of 22 m², take a king or queen bed or two singles; the Dreamer’s Palace rooms, the same size, are in the central building, the palace itself. The Deluxe rooms, of 25 m², keep vaulted ceilings or stone arches from the old palace, and the Deluxe Garden View rooms, from 25 m², look over the Patio de los Naranjos. The Single Dreamer’s is the house’s room for one: 15 m², with a double bed of 160 cm.
The Junior Suites, of up to 75 m², are the most spacious, with reading corners and generous bathrooms with a bath and a shower, and take up to four. The Junior Suites Historic, of 40 to 50 m², keep historic frescoes and original ornament, and so does the Presidential Suite Gran Capitán, of 52 m², with its sleeping and living areas apart, a dressing room and a butler.
If a particular room, the garden outlook or a fresco matters to you, tell us when you enquire and we will confirm it with the hotel for your dates before anything is booked.
On the practical side: private parking at the hotel is limited, with a charging point for electric cars; room service runs around the clock; the hotel is accessible for guests with reduced mobility; and dogs are welcome.
Arbequina is the hotel’s restaurant, under chef Rubén González: signature cooking from local, seasonal produce that reinterprets Córdoba’s traditions. Lunch and dinner are also laid in the Roman Courtyard, and outdoors on the Faroles Terrace, with local wines and cocktails. The Tapas Bar reinvents Córdoba’s tapas, and the Pool Bar serves light snacks and drinks by the pool. The old town is on the doorstep for everything else, and we book tables.
03Location
Palacio del Bailío stands on Calle Ramírez de las Casas Deza in San Miguel-Capuchinos, in the north of Córdoba’s old town, a few steps from the Plaza de Capuchinos and its Cristo de los Faroles. The map shows it with what is around it: the Palacio de Viana to the east, the Roman temple and the Plaza de las Tendillas a few streets south, and the Mezquita-Catedral further south, by the river. For the city itself, see our Córdoba page.
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Palacio del Bailío
Palacio de Viana
Roman temple
Plaza de las Tendillas
Mezquita-Catedral
Torre de la Calahorra
04Alternatives
More hotels from our Córdoba selection, each with a different character. Distances are in a straight line to the Mezquita-Catedral; Palacio del Bailío is 950 m away.
Judería
Five old houses joined around Mudéjar and Renaissance patios in the Judería, opposite the Alcázar, with two penthouse terraces and a pool open all year.
05Planning
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