Gran Hotel Balneario Prats

Gran Hotel Balneario Prats is a historic grand hotel and thermal spa in Caldes de Malavella in the province of Girona, Catalonia, where the Roman settlement of Aquae Calidae exploited the same thermal springs that continue to supply the bathing establishment today, making this one of the longest continuously used therapeutic spring sites in the Iberian Peninsula with a history stretching back over two thousand years to the time of the Roman republic. The hotel's magnificent late 19th-century architectural ensemble, with its colonnaded galleries, formal gardens, and grand thermal halls, preserves the atmosphere of the golden age of Catalan spa culture when bourgeois families from Barcelona spent their summers in the thermal resorts of the Girona hinterland. The town sits in a privileged position between the medieval city of Girona — whose Jewish quarter, cathedral, and Arab baths have made it one of Spain's most photogenic heritage cities and a filming location for Game of Thrones — and the Costa Brava coastline, placing Balneario Prats at the intersection of Catalonia's most celebrated cultural and natural destinations.