In Agés, right at the heart of the Camino Francés, this pilgrim hostel and its restaurant have spent years offering shelter and good food to those walking the route. The whole business runs at full capacity: 22 beds, a lively dining room and an independent home, just a short distance from San Juan de Ortega and Atapuerca.
This pilgrim hostel with bar-restaurant is located in Agés, a small town in the province of Burgos set right on the Camino Francés route, between the municipalities of San Juan de Ortega and Atapuerca. The building enjoys a privileged position, clearly visible to those walking the Camino as it passes through the village.
Its façade, true to the area's traditional architecture, clearly announces its purpose with the signage typical of a pilgrim hostel, and a welcoming terrace invites walkers to stop for a rest before continuing on their way. Beneath a roof in excellent condition lie the solar panels that give the whole property an extra boost in energy efficiency.
The business is made up of three clearly defined areas: a bar-restaurant with seating for 30, a hostel with 22 beds spread across five rooms, and a fully equipped independent home on the attic floor.
On entering, the dining room welcomes visitors with a warm, rustic atmosphere, defined by its exposed wooden beams and a table layout designed for guests' comfort. Next to it, the bar area serves as the social heart of the business, ready to serve passing pilgrims and local customers alike, kept warm in the colder months by radiators and a pellet stove.
Behind this space lies a professional kitchen, spacious and bright thanks to its two windows to the outside, equipped with everything needed to keep up with the daily pace of a working restaurant. A generous storeroom completes a workspace designed to leave nothing wanting, while the dining area itself is rounded off with full bathrooms for both men and women, plus a washing machine and dryer for guests' use.
From the dining area, a side corridor and a wooden staircase lead up to the floor above, where the hostel itself unfolds. Its five rooms, all fitted with bunk beds, together provide 22 beds: four rooms sleep four each, while a fifth sleeps up to six. Each one is self-contained, with its own full bathroom, individual heating, a built-in wardrobe and a TV point, and all are designed so they could also be adapted into double or triple rooms.
The landing on this floor holds a small storage area before reaching the bedrooms, along with communal areas featuring a TV, heating, separate bathrooms and a washer-dryer, rounded off by a room set aside for cleaning products and daily upkeep.
This entire floor, like the rest of the building, is heated by a pellet boiler working alongside the solar panels installed on the roof.
The top floor of the building is set aside entirely for the owner's home, a space equipped for everyday living and kept separate from the rest of the business. It includes a full bathroom, a main bedroom with a double bed and ample wardrobe space, a small living room and an additional room for guests, as well as a storage area with a washing machine, dryer and utility sink.
It is a bright space thanks to its Velux-style skylights, which make the most of the sloping roof, and a cosy one thanks to its exposed wooden ceilings and structure. As in the rest of the property, each room has its own individually controlled heating.
Agés is a small town in the province of Burgos, part of the municipality of Arlanzón, lying halfway between two landmarks of particular significance for pilgrims: the Monastery of San Juan de Ortega and the village of Atapuerca, both just over two kilometres away. Granted in 1052 to Santa María la Real de Nájera, Agés became linked two years later to the Battle of Atapuerca, and still preserves from that era the Romanesque bridge over the River Vena and the Church of Santa Eulalia de Mérida. Today it remains known among pilgrims for the warmth of its people and for keeping its pilgrim spirit fully alive.
A short distance away, the Monastery of San Juan de Ortega houses a Romanesque and Gothic church famous for the equinoctial light phenomenon, when a beam of sunlight illuminates the capital of the Annunciation twice a year. Also close by are the Atapuerca archaeological sites, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site for containing some of the oldest human remains in Europe, while the city of Burgos, home to a Gothic cathedral that is likewise a World Heritage Site, lies just over 20 kilometres away.
This hostel with restaurant in Agés represents an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to take over an established, fully operating business, in one of the busiest stretches of pilgrim traffic on the entire Camino de Santiago.
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114 m²
228 m²
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5
All orientations
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C 258 kg CO₂ m² / Year
D 64 kg CO₂ m² / Year
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