12 hotels
The great hotels of Spain
12 luxury hotels in Spain are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Marbella Club Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa, opened in 1954; the most recent, Six Senses Ibiza, in 2021. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Hotel Arts Barcelona
A 44-storey steel tower on the Olympic seafront by Bruce Graham of SOM, with Frank Gehry's copper fish beside the pool.
483 rooms
Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona
A 1950s bank on Passeig de Gràcia turned into a hotel by Carlos Ferrater and Patricia Urquiola in 2009, with Carme Ruscalleda's two-star Moments inside.
120 rooms
Rosewood Villa Magna
The Hotel Villa Magna opened on the Paseo de la Castellana in 1972; Rosewood reopened it in October 2021 with 154 rooms and Jesús Sánchez's restaurant Amós.
154 rooms
La Residencia
Two sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manor houses in Deià, opened as a hotel in 1984, owned by Richard Branson until 2002 and hung with works by Joan Miró.
Four Seasons Hotel Madrid
Seven protected buildings on Calle de Alcalá, a former bank headquarters among them, became Four Seasons Hotel Madrid in September 2020, with 200 rooms.
200 rooms
Six Senses Ibiza
Opened in July 2021 on Cala Xarraca at the island's northern tip, with a music venue built into the sea caves below the rooms.
Hotel Santo Mauro
The 1894 palace of the Duke of Santo Mauro on Calle de Zurbano has been a 49-room hotel since 1991, its ducal library now the dining room.
49 rooms
Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine
A twelfth-century Premonstratensian abbey on the Duero turned into a 30-room wine hotel, with a Michelin-starred restaurant in the monks' refectory.
30 rooms
Castillo Hotel Son Vida
Prince Rainier and Princess Grace attended the 1961 opening of Castillo Hotel Son Vida, a castle above Palma that is now ringed by three golf courses.
164 rooms
Finca Cortesin
A 67-suite Andalusian estate between Marbella and Sotogrande whose golf course staged the 2023 Solheim Cup, the first held in Spain.
67 rooms
Cap Rocat
Antonio Obrador turned the Fortaleza d'Enderrocat, an 1890s fort guarding the bay of Palma, into Cap Rocat, whose rooms occupy the old gun emplacements.
30 rooms
Marbella Club Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa
Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe turned his family's farm on the coast road into the Marbella Club in 1954, and the Golden Mile grew up around it.