Lobby
With a capacity for 200 guests, the Hotel del Cardenal is an excellent place for celebrating an event, enjoying its beautiful gardens or the more intimate environment of its restaurant. The restaurant’s kitchens offer a wide range of different dishes allowing personalised menus to be created, ensuing that no details are overlooked. Also, our customers can choose a menu which best suits their tastes and preferences from a series of pre-prepared menus. In addition, we also suggest that you offer your guests, if they require, a special menu, designed to meet any alimentary requirements that they may have. The hotel offers accommodation for guests after the event ends, so that they can enjoy maximum comfort. Alternatively a transport service is also available.
Exterior
Toledo is known as the city of the three cultures, since Christians, Arabs and Jews lived together for centuries. The Fortress, the Cathedral, the Santa María la Blanca and El Tránsito synagogues and the Bisagra gate are only some of its many landmarks.
Rooms
Make yourself at home in one of the 27 individually decorated guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones and safes.
Restaurant
The best raw material and the quality with which the Castilian dishes and dishes from La Mancha are prepared can clearly be noted. Hotel del Cardenal’s restaurant offers lovingly-prepared cuisine representing the tri-cultural tradition of the city, with each dish expressing the most traditional recipes. The restaurant is located at the entrance to the garden, and has a capacity for some 200 people. Its rooms have been carefully decorated, with some conserving the original roofs and coffering, and complemented by dining room tapestries and other decorative elements. The main granite stairway leads to the "Mezquita" dining room; around a central space the dining room is distributed into eight quarters, finished, alternatively, with Mudejar coffering with star-like patterns and an octagonal vault, from which a replica of Seventeenth Century lantern from a Spanish Galleon hangs. From the outside the facade offers an interesting combination of Castilian masonry, unpolished granite lintels, and wooden struts and bases. On irregular, rough tiles we reach the "Greco" and “Mezquita” dining room, with its false plaster lintels inspired in Arabic latticework with a polychrome coffered ceiling from the Sixteenth Century. The restaurant has a terrace in the garden. When the weather permits, this makes it an ideal place to have a coffee, a glass of wine, or an aperitif.
Location
The Hotel is located in a pavilion in the grounds, built in the Eighteenth Century by order of Cardenal Lorenzana. The hotel is located in the upper part of the garden. The hallway is crowned by the Lorenzana coat of arms and houses the Hotel’s reception area, before leading on to an entrance hall with a ceiling in the style of the second half of Eighteenth Century. As we pass through the corridors of the buildings two floors, we can admire works of art, tiles, engravings, and original ceramics from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Part of the coffering and polychrome base of the original building have been restored, and maintained as part of the historical and cultural heritage of the building.
