The last 5th of April the English school Borlase began its training camp in Cerlac, Borlase is one of many colleges practicing rowing in Britain. After the first contact made with the team’s head coach, his feeling was very positive, highlighting the quality of the Miño River with a very quiet and still water and the efficiency of the services provided in the hotel Laias. By the way, after the first training done in the Laias center they booked new dates for April 2016.

From 25th Januray to 11th February the Dutch National Team has been training in CERLA.
Even with some rainy days due to a not normal winter in Spain, all training programmes were completed with success and the athletes and staff were very satisfied mainly with the water conditions and the quality of the accommodation.

This was the First Chapter written in CERLAC’s history, with The Netherlands rowers becoming the first athletes. All the staff from CERLA and its board direction were very happy to see that the center has very good conditions and is ready to host many other teams.

On the next few days, beginning on the 20th February, it is time to conclude the last issues to host Belarus National Rowing Team and to improve details with this first experience.

In July 2014 the President of Castrelo do Miño Rowing Club and Caldaria Board Direction invited António Rascão Marques (President of the Portuguese Rowing Federation) into a new challenge: to create a new Rowing Center in Spain.

In August 2014, this group went to Amsterdam to the World Rowing Championship to promote CERLAC – Centro de Entrenamiento de Remo de Laias, Arnoia e Castrelo. After this promotion there were a great number of teams and rowing clubs interested on this new project. The Netherlands became the first rowing team training at CERLA.

In the future, we’re expecting to host the Belarus National Team during a 40 days training camp followed for the British College Sir. William Borlase Grammar School. Also, in the summer, we’re expecting Australia Rowing Team just before the World Rowing Championship in France.

CERLA’s vision is to become one of the best Rowing Training Center where every team can train, complete their training programmes and test their performance. Surrounded by river Miño with superb conditions for rowing, great accommodation and conditions with the its famous Thermal Water with recognized quality for injuries’ recovering and wellbeing.

We hope to see you here, in Laias – Ourense – Spain.