At the point of dismissing the year and with the mind full of New Year’s resolutions, what do you think about the labor field? Do you want to continue growing as a professional and improve your golf in the best golf courses in Madrid?You find time to work and play golf. Many courses are closed o the city and to IFEMA as Olivar de La Hinojosa ( just in front to IFEMA), Centro National Golf, RetamaresGolf, Lomas, Golf Santander, El Robledal, between others.
When you come to play golf in Madrid, you can stay and enjoy the most exquisite cuisine and the most avant-garde author cocktail at the NH Casa Suecia Hotel.
The old Casa Suecia recovers its golden splendor but, unlike those who modernize putting their goal in the vanguard, this hotel returns to its best time, of the 50`s, when Hemingway flew his pen in his rooms and showed his passion for the Daiquiris at the bar. Go back, then, to appreciate the special of this place for the history that has lived and today manifests in every corner. The strong point of the renovated NH Collection Hotel Sweden? Gastronomy and cocktails served in four spaces, each more special.
Let`s start the route step by step. On entering, there is a spectacular lobby presided over by a huge bar, lamps, carpets and plants in their huge windows, which tells us one important thing: the gastronomic spaces of this hotel are not reserved exclusively for the guests, they are open to all. In this first area we can have breakfast or take some tapas in a bar that never closes their kitchen service, no matter what time it is. Over this area is the Casa Suecia restaurant, a cozy, retro-looking place with the Michelin Star award of Carlos Tejedor in the stoves. In the menu we can find dishes such as the polar coca with aroma of garlic and herbs with beef jerky and arugula, the wood-style salmon with fennel salad and the onion soup with Idiazábal cheese bread, three proposals that triumph on their tables. Inside this restaurant there are more tributes to the writer, because it has an area separated from the rest by a bookcase full of literary works. We continue to climb to the top of the hotel. Its terrace has a 360o view of Madrid and it is one of the most spectacular in the city . Its bar is served by the renowned Adrian Sehov’s signature cocktail, which reinvents classics such as Old Fashions, here Old Fashions XO, and Mojito, here with Creole surname, among many others.
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The real surprise is downstairs when you go from the lobby to the bathroom. In those retro- looking toilets there are several doors alike but, at the end, one is different, it is sliding, not so old. When you open it you reach a clandestine private club anchored several decades ago: the Hemingway bar. A leopard carpet covers the whole place and the red velvet of the armchairs is the perfect companion for the main character: the bar. The bar is supported by a wood rich in decorations and history, from an 18th century church, and is escorted by a collection of distilled drinks. There the bartenders practice their alchemy with cocktails like the aforementioned Old Fashioned XO (with rum Zapaca XO, bitter chocolate, sugar and smoked with Habano) or the Papa Doble (based on Zapaca 23, grapefruit, maraschino and sugar), a cocktail in honor of Hemingway, who did not settle for a simple daiquiri and always asked for a double one.
This house has left us two things clear: the first is that hotels are no longer just to stay, they are to enjoy a gastronomic experience, that can be the same or better than in any other restaurant. And the second thing is that the return to the past, if it is done with taste and talent, is often more surprising than any avant-garde.
This hotel is closed to many courses in Madrid: Golf El Olivar, Centro National de Golf, Retamares, El Robledal, Golf La Herreria, Centro de Tecnificacion, Somosaguas, Palacio Negralejo, Golf Santander, Lomas Bosque, La Dehesa and El Encin.
Madrid’s golf sector attends IGTM. The Madrid Golf Federation, together with Madrid’s Golf Courses Association and Tourist Board, are present at IGTM – International Golf Travel Market, the leading global annual gathering of the industry, which opened yesterday at Son Termes, Majorca.
After playing some golf in Madrid’s magnificent golf courses you might have some spare time to spend visiting the city. As we’ve describe it several times, Madrid is a really interesting city full of things to entertain yourselves with. It has an extended cultural and artistic heritage in every corner of its city center.
Madrid combines perfectly its historical architecture with the most modern facilities. But walking around the city turns out to be really tiring, even more after being all morning playing golf. Its not as big as other European cities but its wide variety of things to enjoy makes it really hard to visit them in an afternoon or even in a whole weekend.
Playing golf in Madrid will make you thirsty, that comes along with the high temperatures and all the walking under the sun. But we found the perfect solution for that: Madrid’s third edition of the famous OKTOBERFEST!
From the 22nd to the 25th of June, Madrid will be full of activities and events related to beer. So, if you like golf and beer and want to know more about its interesting culture – apart from drinking it – Madrid is your city.
Really closed to Madrid City, there is Candelaria Experience, this hotel is born from the willing to share the enthusiasm for life and their passion for nature and sports at the spectacular Sierra de Gredos. In the southern part of Gredos, you will find amazing landscapes full of oaks, small lakes and crystalline waterfalls descending directly from the highest peak, the Almanzor.
Playing golf in Madrid is always a delight! And even more when you know that after enjoying some time on the golf course you are going to end up sitting in one of the most spectacular terraces of all Europe. We might not have a beach in Madrid but we do know how to have fun, that’s for sure! During the following weeks we will suggest some of the best terraces in all Madrid. Don’t miss them!
Ignacio Guerras has been elected President of Madrid’s Golf Federation for the fourth time, and he’ll be holding this position for the next four years after being chosen by the Constituent Assembly of the Federation.
400 years after their death both Shakespeare and Cervantes are still the most important writers in the history of our continent. They are well-know, considered both the writers of both the greatest literary masterpieces. Cervantes most important piece was ‘Don Quixote’, but he also wrote ‘The Labors of Persiles and Sigismunda’, ‘La Galatea’, ‘Journey to Parnassus’ and one of his last piece ‘Exemplary Novels’.
May is a very special month for the City of Madrid, so you’ll find many things to do while spending your weekend playing golf in Madrid. The month started with the celebration of the autonomic holiday of the 2nd of May. This day commemorates de rising of Madrid’s population, that took place the 2nd of May 1808, against the occupation of the French Army. Turning out to be the first action of the Spanish Independence War. It also, usually coincides with Spanish Mother’s and Labor Day, this turns out to make a long weekend where we can dedicate ourselves to spend a weekend dedicated to the practice of golf in Madrid.
