Rural Guest House Hotel in Girona, Catalunya, Spain.  

Open all year for Bed & Breakfast Holidays, Golf Breaks & Golf Schools.

El Recés is located in the Baix Empordà near La Bisbal d'Empordà, between Girona & the Costa Brava Coast. The old village of Corçà is 90km north of Barcelona & 60km south of France. We are on good routes for Girona's championship golf courses; PGA Catalunya, Empordà, Girona, Golf d'Aro, Peralada, Pals & Serres de Pals. 

Girona Golf  Packages are personally arranged by El Recés owners Julia Gillett & Jane Fernley, PGA Golf Professional. Packages include golf course green fees or golf school tuition courses. 

Stay at El Recés de Corçà or Girona Golf can offer you a varied selection of high quality accommodation. 

Local car hire can be arranged with airport or hotel pick-up. Taxi or minibus transfers can be booked for golf breaks & individual trips.

Book Ryanair flights www.ryanair.com into Girona airport or Perpignan, France & also via Barcelona airport with other airlines, including www.easyjet.com

El Recés de Corçà provides comfortable and spacious guesthouse accommodation for relaxing breaks. All rooms are positioned off a central stairway leading upto the top floor guest lounge and terraces. 

El Recés is a 15^th century Catalan house, which has been renovated to a high specification; part of the house is above the old village Gate and passageway. 

Corçà village has a choice of traditional Catalan restaurants & a tapas bar. Girona old town is 20 minutes away and is great to visit daytime or evening.

ALL ROOMS HAVE: Private Bathroom, Fridge, Tea/Coffee Facilities and Breakfast Area

El Recés is a large Catalan village house, with different areas dating back to the 14th, 15th and 17th centuries. It  was originally two houses; the earliest part is at the back, on Plaçà Rebot, overlooked by the last remaining section of the medieval village wall. Narrow streets lead off this plaçà, which are accessible only by foot.  An old well has now become integrated into a guest bathroom of the house. 

The front house on Carrer Major has a balcony door stone with the date 1732.  Close to the front door we have an archway, the Portal Santa Maria, this is the old village gate with a passage way through to the Plaçà Rebot.  For many centuries the house had traditional rural uses; the cattle housed on the ground floor, while the top floor was a grain store. 

In more recent years, El Recés became a holiday home for the German artist and sculptor, Horst Heller.  The ground floor was an art gallery 'Joclars' and the top floor, with good light from the arch windows, was Horst's studio. This is now a guest lounge, but we still refer to it a the 'studio'.  

El Recés is a special house and we have been very conscious during renovation not to change the structure or character of the building. We have kept the rooms large and all have natural stone.  Former residents have very special feelings for the house. Horst bought El Recés as an anniversary present for his wife Irmin 30 years ago and spent several years carefully restoring the more ruined parts. They have since been back to visit and now refer to it as 'our hotel' so they must approve!  Another guest was Catalan lady who was born and brought up in the front house. For a special anniversary, she stayed in the room she was born in.

We opened El Reces as a guest house in 2003 and that's the story so far........