All shades of green can be found in this elegant boutique hotel in Santiago de Compostela. Not only the lush greenery which surrounds it, it is also the respect with which the environment is treated that makes it the first eco luxurious hotel of this area. A family’s enthusiasm and effort have transformed an 18th paper factory into an eco-friendly haven in which to rest and relax and where the attention to details and a personalized service constitute the pillars of the recently opened A Quinta da Auga Spa.

Being a fusion between well-being philosophies, the Spa takes the most of western aromatherapy and hydrotherapy combined with a wide range of traditional eastern manual therapies and consequently, it offers a holistic and profound approach to all its treatments. Every visitor is guided by the Spa’s professional team so that they can relax, release tensions and maintain their emotional balance. This Spa in Santiago de Compostela is also a hotel which needs to be discovered; a retirement in which you can rediscover yourself enjoying the scents, colours, sounds and harmony of nature.

A Spa with Western and Eastern roots

Water, a vital and therapeutic element, flows through the yard in the winding River Sar, and is also present in the Spa indoor heated swimming pool, with its unique sights and natural lighting. It follows its course in the sauna, the hydro massage, the sensation shower and the ice cabin and reaches the flotarium, where the lack of gravity caused by salt provides a deep relaxing experience.

The aromatherapy based on elements ranging from water to essential oils, is present in the A Quinta da Auga Spa, aiming to arouse incredible emotions and moods by using the best aromas. The essential oil shower, a superb combination of water and plants’ “soul”, will uplift your emotions to the extreme, while aromatic drops are ceaselessly running down your skin.

In the Quinta da Auga Spa it is thought that people’s health and beauty reflect their inside world through their body. This is the reason why the A Quinta da Auga’s therapies are based on scientific evidence-based principles which greatly differs from the approach followed by ordinary spas. In this way, with the thousand-year-old Ayurveda Medicine, “the science of life” in the Indian healing procedure, therapies can be personalized according to each individual’s circumstances through tension relieving massages which harmonize body, mind