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A morning between the rows
Two hundred acres of vineyard run from the abbey to the river. The walk before breakfast is the best one of the day — frost still in the rows in autumn, the abbey climbing up out of the valley as you turn back.
Ribera del Duero · Castilla y León
Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine
A twelfth-century abbey returned to use as a thirty-room hotel above the Duero — Marc Segarra's Refectorio at its centre, the working bodega at its foot, the Santuario spa cut…
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A twelfth-century abbey set above its own working vineyard, kept by a butler-served house of thirty rooms. Marc Segarra at the Refectorio holds the kitchen and a Michelin star, plus a Green Star for the way the produce arrives — and the Santuario keeps the slowest hour of the day.
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Les particularités
- Style
- Restored twelfth-century Romanesque abbey, on a working bodega
- Rooms
- 30 — twenty-seven rooms and three suites in the cloister wings
- Table
- Refectorio, by Marc Segarra — Michelin star since 2014, Green Star 2020
- Cellar
- Abadía Retuerta — protected designation, 200 acres of vineyard around the house
- Spa
- Santuario Wellness & Spa, with a contemplative reflecting pool
- Best for
- A long weekend on the Duero, at the table and in the vines
- Season
- April through October; the vineyards loudest in late September
Abadía Retuerta is a Romanesque abbey above the Duero, founded in 1146 and brought back into use as a thirty-room hotel — twenty-seven rooms and three suites distributed through the old cloister wings. The estate around it is the bodega: two hundred acres of vineyards in the Sardón valley, with the bottling line, the barrel cellar, and the cooper running the year before everything else does.
The kitchen is at the Refectorio, in the old refectory of the abbey — a high vaulted room with a single fresco at the back. Marc Segarra has held the Michelin star since 2014 and the Michelin Green Star since 2020, and he writes the menu close to the kitchen garden and the cellar two floors below. The Vinoteca, the Calicata terroir bar, and the cloister courtyard keep the rest of the table.
Santuario Wellness & Spa sits in the newer wing, set behind a still pool with a circular oculus cut into the limestone — one of the quietest rooms in the house. Valladolid's airport is forty minutes by car; the train from Madrid arrives at the same station. The journey from Madrid is short enough that the second night is rarely the last one.
Moments choisis
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Dinner at the Refectorio
The old monks' refectory holds the Michelin table. A vaulted stone room, a single fresco at the back, white linen down the length of it. Marc Segarra writes the menu from the gardens that day; the wine list arrives from the cellar two floors below.
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An hour at the Santuario
The new wing keeps the spa: a quiet courtyard, a long reflecting pool, a circular oculus cut into the limestone wall. Take it after the walk, or before the table — the room knows how to slow the day.
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