Barcelona has some of the best hotels in the world and has now put the Cotton House Hotel on the Global Gold List 2022. This recognition is carried out by the Condé Nast Traveler editions of Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, China, India and the Middle East.
In addition to the Cotton House in Barcelona, Spain has added two other venues to the list: the Ritz-Carlton in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Finca Cortesin in Malaga.
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The Cotton House is an emblematic building in Barcelona built in the 19th century that has a library, terrace, outdoor pool and gym, and its price is not for all budgets: on average, 250 euros per night, and only if we talk about its simplest rooms.
The Boada family mansion It has a 140-year history linked to the cotton flower, as explained by Ignacio Padilla in EL PERIÓDICO. It has had different inhabitants since it was built in 1876 in Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 670, but all of them have preserved their cotton essence. The building was born at the height of the textile industry. Miquel Boada, member of a family from the Catalan high bourgeoisie who traded in cotton, hired Elies Rogent, architect of the historic building of the University of Barcelona.
Rogent presented him with an emblematic building of neoclassical style, a testament to how the Catalan bourgeoisie lived at that time. The ceilings on the ground floor and the size of the doors still retain their original measurements, designed to allow the entry of horse carriages up an imposing marble staircase.
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In 1975, the Textile Industrial Association of the Cotton Process (AITPA) bought the property with the idea of creating a real cotton house that would house as many cotton organizations as possible. AITPA hired the architect Nicolau Maria Rubió to remodel the building. “He believed that the eighteenth-century style should be preserved to remember the time when the modern textile industry was born“recalls José María Botet, general secretary of the cotton association.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com