Virxe Da Cerca

The Virxe da Cerca hotel occupies an 18th-century former Jesuit house located in the centre of the World Heritage town of Santiago de Compostela, 500 metres from the cathedral. The 42 guestrooms are decorated in a traditional Galician style with stone walls, and include cable television, dial-up Internet connections, minibars, safes, telephones and bathrooms.
The restaurant, O Picho da Cerca, offers a mix of old and new Galician food in a traditional setting with stone walls and exposed wooden beams. Guests can relax in the private garden or escape to the shade of the lounge bar to unwind over cocktails. Guests with laptops can plan sightseeing itineraries via wireless Internet coverage. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk are on hand to look after valuables in the safe-deposit box and provide room service. Motorists will find parking facilities on site (surcharge). Visitors keen to learn more about the area and its culture can head to the Museum of the People of Galicia or the Museum of Contemporary Arts, both of which are within 300 metres of the hotel. The cathedral and the botanical gardens are both 500 metres away. Santiago de Compostela Airport is ten kilometres away, with an approximate driving time of 15 minutes.