15 rural houses to experience Christmas with your children 2026

Nature, relaxation, time to think, to sleep, to rest and also to spend a few days of celebration with the family. This is the result of the equation that comes from adding vacations and rural houses. A plan that at Christmas can also color the end-of-year festivities with a different magic that both children and adults can enjoy. Do you feel like it? Does it seem suggestive to you? To us too. That is why we have made a selection of 15 rural houses spread throughout Spain where you can go to celebrate the last days of the year, allowing the pieces of the whole family to fit together again and forgetting the routine and stress of daily life in the city.

The plan of a rural house is not only synonymous with rest, but also with physical activities with which the little ones in each house tend to be more than satisfied. Practicing hiking, trekking, horseback riding, cycling, visiting lakes, towns in the most rural Spain, discovering our history and its archaeological sites, following the footprints of animals that have already disappeared but that once lived in the Iberian Peninsula are just some of those activities that are feasible in the vicinity of these rural houses.

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Houses in which, in many cases, there are also saunas and spas where we can relax our muscles and joints and where we can take care of ourselves as a family. Another of the great luxuries of rural tourism are the gastronomic 'tributes' that we can give ourselves, when tasting typical dishes from the regions to which we travel.

Although we tend to think that rural houses are mainly in the interior of the country and in more mountainous areas, there are also those close to the sea or directly on the coast. There are options for all tastes. Of course, a common denominator in all of them: going to a rural house is allowing our children to live in first person a direct experience with nature and its fauna and flora; It is giving them the option to see with their own eyes that eggs do not come from a cardboard box nor milk from a carton.

Experiences that surely acquire greater magic thanks to the magic of Christmas. If you join us in our selection of rural houses in Spain that we have compiled thanks to www.tuscasasrurales.com, we invite you to read what follows:

Baumala

Located in the municipality of Las Llosses (Ripollés) and next to Borredà (Berguedá) and Alpens (Osana), this isolated house is located in the pre-Pyrenees, in a privileged environment that will help you enjoy nature and tranquility as a family. The house has been completely restored and equipped to offer maximum comfort. The farmhouse preserves some of the signs of identity of the old traditional Catalan farmhouse and has a fireplace and firewood.

The exteriors of the house are large and designed to be used during all seasons of the year, including the Christmas season. The terrace is large and sunny and has stunning views. Outside there is also a barbecue, a covered area with table football and billiards and a park with swings, a playhouse and a sand pit for the little ones.

If you want to disconnect from the madding crowd, the house has a jacuzzi and indoor pool but with views to the outside.

Alisoso House

Located in the municipality of Benalup Casas Viejas de Cádiz, Casa Alisoso will allow you to enjoy Christmas in a unique natural environment, with magnificent views of the nearby Alcornocales natural park. This location offers you numerous opportunities to do outdoor leisure activities with the little ones, from hiking and horseback riding to recognizing various species of nature.

Also, if your children are more into the sea than the mountains, this house is very close to the famous beaches of Caños de Meca and El Palmar. Outside the house you will find large, well-kept gardens and a large central patio. It also highlights its large porch, perfect for us to relax and watch the sunsets with the family. The private pool facing the natural park is another of the great attractions of this rural house, where you can spend authentic moments of enjoyment with the little ones.

El Olmo House

The province of La Rioja is another safe bet to enjoy a getaway with your children in a rural house, like the one found in El Rasillo de Cameros. Surrounded by a garden of more than 1,000 square meters, Casa El Olmo will allow you to breathe clean air as a family, rest your eyes on the horizon, walk along paths between pines and oaks and relax from daily stress.

If, in addition to relaxing, you are looking for activities to do with your children in this area, you can visit the Ortigosa caves, go to the Leza River Canyon, hike along magnificent forest routes such as the Puente Ra Waterfalls or take part in a stage of the GR93, a beautiful trail that can be done on foot or by bicycle.

Another option that will be unforgettable is the one proposed by the Enciso Dinosaur Trail, a short route that will take us through three of the main ichnites (dinosaur footprints) sites in La Rioja and throughout our country. It is of little difficulty and has children's facilities along the way such as play parks. The enormous figures of dinosaurs that you can see in the main sites will also attract your attention.

House Las Encinas

In the heart of the Costa del Sol, in the heart of Malaga's Axarquia, you can enjoy a few days of relaxation and family at Casa Las Encinas. Surrounded by nature, this house is equipped with a barbecue, terrace, pool and garden so there will be no shortage of options for entertaining your children.

In the area you can also do outdoor activities such as hiking, trekking, mountain biking, climbing, donkey rides, delicious gastronomic routes and visits to Mondrón, Colmenar, Casabermeja, Los Romanes, Torcal de Antequera, Venta de Alfarnate and the Pantano de la Viñuela.

El Roble Hollow Rural House

Located in the black towns of Guadalajara, Casa Rural El Roble Hueco is another option to spend Christmas with your little ones. Opened in 2014 and located on the route of the black architecture of Guadalajara, in the Sierra Norte Natural Park, specifically in the village of Campillejo belonging to Campillo de Ranas, this house will allow you to experience an authentic Christmas atmosphere next to its fireplace or thanks to its barbecue. Equipped with a swimming pool and a large garden, El Roble Hueco has a children's games room, Internet access, table football, and television in the rooms.

In addition, for adults and children, it has a Spa and a Turkish bath that can be used. It is also equipped with a jacuzzi, sauna and music system.

Santamaría Rural House

Casa Rural Santamaría seems like another very good option for you to escape with the family to spend a few days of well-deserved rest at Christmas. The house is located in Villanueva de Yerri, 530 meters high, 45 minutes from Logroño and 35 from Pamplona. Furthermore, the distance that separates it from San Sebastián makes it not crazy to escape to spend the day in that beautiful city.

In addition to making an authentic immersion in the cereal culture - the house is decorated around that art - this place can be a perfect base camp to enjoy with the little ones a hiking route in the surroundings, a balloon ride, a time of paintball, a horseback riding experience or one on a sailing boat in the neighboring Alloz reservoir.

Rural Houses Ordesa

Do you want to take a getaway with family or friends to the Pyrenees and get in touch with nature in its purest form? Don't give it any more thought. Casas Ordesa offers you what you are looking for. They are located in the town of Belsierre, in the heart of the Ordesa Valley, in the heart of the Aragonese Pyrenees in the province of Huesca and at the gates of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.

In addition to breathing fresh air and resting in an environment of unique beauty, these Houses will allow you to take a good tour through history if you decide to visit the medieval town of Aínsa or Torreciudad. If your plan and that of your children is more about natural parks, then the option is vast: in the vicinity of these houses are the Posets-Maladeta Natural Park, the French Pyrenees National Park, the Sierra and the Guara Canyons and, if skiing is your thing, the slopes from Piau-Engaly (France).

Whatever you decide, a moment of relaxation in the heated jacuzzi-spa with which they are equipped will surely not hurt you, nor will you gain strength with a barbecue, also at your disposal.

Rural House Chalet Las Jaras

If your bet for this Christmas is to stay away from the big cities, Casa Rural Chalet Las Jaras is a good ally. A few kilometers from Madrid, where you can visit the Christmas markets and see the lighting of the city typical of this period of the year, this accommodation will allow you to disconnect in the middle of nature and exercise in physical activities that are of interest to you or your little ones.

4 kilometers from the Atazar reservoir and one kilometer from Pico de la Miel, the Chalet las Jaras Rural House offers you the option of climbing, trekking, hiking, cycling, horseback riding, practicing light sailing, winsurfing, canoeing, kayaking, etc...

Activities that are well worth gathering strength at the house's barbecue and relaxing taking in the fresh, clean air from your terrace and garden, or from inside watching the crackling of the fireplace.

The suburb of Toledo

The El Arrabal de Toledo rural house is one of those places where you can rest with your family during the Christmas holidays and do a wide variety of activities such as bike routes, tennis, hiking, trekking, horseback riding, wine tourism, gastronomic routes, hunting or fishing.

Equipped with a barbecue, garden, fireplace and swimming pool, the Arrabal de Toledo is a perfect starting point for you to take the Don Quixote Route with your children, visit the city of Toledo, its cathedral, its Cristo de la Luz mosque or its Santa Mª La Blanca synagogue.

The Covatilla Viewpoint

Surrounded by beautiful landscapes, the rural house El Mirador de Cobatilla, in Guijo de Ávila, will allow you to meet nature while it brings the whole family together. If your plan is oriented towards relaxation, the enclave of this place is ideal to do so. If, on the other hand, you and your family opt for physical activity, here you can practice various sports from hiking, cycling, climbing, archery, paintball, rafting, pedal boating, canoeing or sailing.

Options for all tastes. And of course, a spa, jacuzzi, sauna and hydromassage to give your bodies the necessary care to put a finishing touch to the year.

El Curica Garden

Huerto El Curica is located in the area of the Traditional Orchards of Totana (Murcia region), a natural habitat of ancient pine trees. This area is dotted with stately homes, built at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, so your experience and that of your family will combine art, architecture, history and nature in this place. Not bad!

Huerto El Curica also has its own mandarin and orange orchard with an area of ​​12,000 square meters, where the only home in the complex is located. A surface where the little ones can see that the fruit does not come from the supermarket or the market, but from nature.

With a jacuzzi and barbecue, a solarium area with hammocks, a porch with sofas and views of the pool, this rural house is also friendly to pets.

Given that it is very close to the coastal area, water activities are one of its strong points to enjoy active tourism. The stay includes a boat route through the Bay of Mazarrón, where you can bathe. Do you resist?

The Casuna de la Una

Built only with noble materials such as stone and wood, the Casuna de la Una (in the province of Teruel) is a rural village house from the 19th century but very adapted to the 21st century both for its commitment to the ecological and for its technological advances. Two factors that you and your family will surely like. Completely carried out in bioconstruction, chemical-free components such as clay cement, ecological products in carpentry and beam treatments, natural baked clay on the floor and floating wooden flooring, and ecological paint have been used.

Respecting its age, the house has integrated some modern amenities such as a Wi-Fi controlled radiator heating system in all rooms. Although if you still feel cold or just for pleasure, you can light the cast iron fireplace.

The house is therefore perfectly equipped for winter and to contemplate nature from the inside or from the outside while perhaps deciding to have a barbecue for your enjoyment and that of the little ones in the house. When you feel like going out, this location will allow you to walk along the trails of the Olba Valley, comfortable for adventurous spirits and for young and old. For the latter there is also the option of visiting the recreational and educational park Dinópolis in Teruel (only 45 km away), or the fun educational park Dinópolis Región Ambarina (15 minutes by car) in the medieval town of Rubielos de Mora.

The Casitas de la Vera

In the heart of the La Vera region, you will find the Casitas de la Vera. A location where you can enjoy a very different Christmas in the province of Cáceres with your family.

With Internet connection, swimming pool for adults and swimming pool for children, this place is built faithfully following the architectural guidelines of the La Vera region, with stone walls, half-timbered wood and adobe. The accommodations are surrounded by a large estate of 10,000 square meters where you can walk with your children, relax and enjoy nature and the garden. Also from here you can take the Emperor Charles V Route towards the Monastery of Yuste, visit the San Gregorio Gorge, located 600 meters away, with its beautiful natural pool and puddles. History and nature come together in this place with five towns declared a Historic-Artistic complex, with the Monfragüe National Park and the Monumental city of Plasencia).

More Danyans

Quality, comfort, convenience, tranquility and one of the values that have been lost with modernity, such as contact with nature and breathing fresh air. This is what the Mas Danyans rural house has prepared to surprise you and your family next Christmas. Equipped with a garden, barbecue, terrace and swimming pool, Mas Danyans is an independent rural tourism farmhouse that allows animals, has a fireplace and free Wi-Fi, with table football, table tennis and a multi-sports court where the little ones can practice both indoor soccer and basketball.

Among the activities that you can do if you stay at this accommodation are mushroom picking, trekking, riding mountain bikes (circuits nearby), horse riding (for rent 20 kilometers away), hiking with signposted routes or taking a swim in the Merles stream.

Villa El Berrocal

Located at the foot of the Segovian mountains, in Ortigosa del Monte (78 kilometers from Madrid and 15 from Segovia), this rural house will offer you all the comfort you need to spend the Christmas holidays with your family in a natural environment and in the heart of Castilian-Leonese land. With capacity for 20 people, the house has a fireplace, a games room with table football and billiards and a 2000 square meter plot with barbecue, soccer field and a large swimming pool. Everything for everyone and especially so that both you and your children can rest and close 2018 and welcome 2019 as you always wanted.