Located in the heart of the city within the walled part of the town, the HOTEL REY NIO is in an impressive building which was completely renovated in 2001. Its strategic location makes it the ideal starting point to visit the city without having to use transportation. And since it is in the pedestrian street area, you can enjoy the complete peace and quiet and appreciate the saying: AVILA, THE CITY WHERE ONE HEARS THE SILENCE. The rooms are spacious and all of them have their own bathroom, telephone and television. Optional parking is available. On the ground floor the coffee shop YAKARTA offers all your restaurant needs in a quiet and relaxed atmosphere or in your own room.

Alfonso VII was the son of Count Ramn of Burgundy and Doa Urraca, the daugther of Alfonso VI, who sent the couple to repopulate Avila, which was very damaged due to the continuous conflicts between the Moors and the Christians. When the Count passed away, his son took the throne at the tender age of four, and Doa Urraca remarried, this time wedding Alfonso I of Aragon, also known as El Batallador,who mistreated his wife until their separation. Alfonso I of Aragon's true ambition was to take the throne from his stepson, who he took to the hill of Hervero in Avila, the place of Las Hervencias. He was going to overtake the CHILD KING, or REY NIO, but the knights of Avila, loyal to the Castillian king, refused to hand him over. Instead, they merely showed him to Alfonso I, propping the child between two battlements of the apse of the cathedral, a scene which gave rise to the coat of arms of Avila. The Aragonese king, enraged by the loyalty of the people of Avila, ordered for the heads of seventy captured knights to be cut off and boiled in oil. These knights crossed the 'Door of Misfortune' (Puerta de la Mala Ventura), to meet their fate which the Batallador had handed down. It is for this story that the city of Avila earned the titles of: Avila of the King Avila of the Knights Avila of the Loyal