A hotel with spa and infinity pool, a leisure area with a Canyoning Park and adventure park, a social leisure area with a nature reserve and nature interpretation centre, a mini-golf course, restaurants, as well as a reception building, car parks and technical and service facilities. This is how the large ecological project that Amusement Logic is developing in the autonomous community of Galicia, in north-west Spain, can be summed up.
Covering an area of approximately 39,805 m2, without doubt this is a unique project in the field of local tourism, but also in that of international tourism.
The master plan design for the leisure and adventure complex, which includes an area of urban land, a green zone for public use and another bordering the sea, has been carried out with the strictest respect for the location’s current town planning regulations. As we shall see, it has also been developed in accordance with the most demanding ecological, environmental and sustainability criteria.
A hotel integrated in nature
Rocks and waterfalls, green spaces, streams and naturalised lakes determine the design of the hotel’s exterior. Careful landscaping will give continuity to the great beauty of the surrounding natural landscape, which extends uniformly and integrally, to its rooms and facilities as well as to the recreational and sports activities areas and the complex’s promenades. In doing so, the hotel’s architecture adapts to the terrain’s features in a series of stepped terraces that offer direct views over the sea and the natural park in front of the rooms. These terraces, with sunny and shaded areas, provide places of relaxation for guests to enjoy the sensory stimulation of the idyllic landscape and the gentle flow of the water.
The hotel’s interiors are integrally defined by the theming. The restaurants, flooring, seating areas, lighting, emblematic elements, landscaping and signage, absolutely everything will transport guests into the heart of nature. Animals and birds, water and vegetation will be fundamental elements of the resort, whilst the infrastructures will remain in the background, almost unnoticed, incorporated as naturalised elements. Even the car park will be integrated into the landscape, with panels providing visitors with information about the local flora and fauna.
Grass Mini-golf
Aimed at children, youngsters and families, the hotel is extending its range of services and activities with a mini-golf course. On a well-drained and landscaped ground, the mini-golf holes will be built with high quality artificial grass and natural stone, so that it will blend in with the surroundings. Those who enjoy their free time there will feel like they’re playing on real grass.
Canyoning Park and adventure trail
A Canyoning Park, a leisure and adventure attraction that perfectly imitates nature, is fully integrated into this project. Indeed, it’s an innovative concept that artificially recreates a natural canyon. Adventure sports enthusiasts can enjoy canyoning activities (climbing, abseiling, waterfalls, chasms, cascades and slides, caving, etc.), under the supervision of specialised instructors and in controlled conditions.
The project also includes an adventure course, an additional attraction for visitors who wish to carry out activities in contact with nature. This is a high-altitude adventure course with routes of varying difficulty (crossing high bridges, lianas, Nepalese and Tibetan bridges, rope ladders, etc.), so that all users can complete at least one of them. The attraction is equipped with the best safety equipment, both passive (harnesses, double safety grips, helmets, etc.) and active, with monitors to ensure safety. Furthermore, we have designed this adventure attraction in such a way that its installation and operation do not affect the surrounding trees and biomass.
Interpretation centre and nature reserve
Another of the complex’s attractions to allow full immersion in the natural settings, is the interpretation centre and nature reserve. It will show a real and complete representation of the surrounding ecosystem, aiming to promote knowledge and care for nature. A practice and research field for students and professionals, a school of traditional trades, a livestock farm with horses, a protected route with a green screen through different observation points of the avian fauna, a projection room for children, a cafeteria and a souvenir shop, amongst others, complete the centre’s facilities. All in all, this interpretation centre will connect people of all ages with nature, in a real and effective way.
Other leisure activities
The natural leisure and adventure complex has spaces for the enjoyment of new leisure and sports activities that have become established as a free-time trend in recent years. These include activities such as Slackline (balancing on a narrow, flexible belt), Disk Golf (throwing a disc along a course), Zorbing (descending a slope in a large ball), etc.
Finally, it only remains to add that, during the project’s development phases, we will take into account the essential sustainability and efficiency guidelines, in order to reduce energy and water consumption as much as possible, and guarantee the use, recycling and reuse of material and natural resources.
