Hospes Palacio de los Patos
Granada, Spain
Early booking: 20% off – Privilege services
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Luxury holidays in Andalucia
Like the paintings of Andalucia’s famed native son, Pablo Picasso, this region is vivid, bold and occasionally overwhelming. With eight provinces to explore, repeat visits beckon; because each ancient city offers a unique flavour of authentic Spanish culture: Almeria’s rock-carved dwellings, the Moorish flowered filigree of Granada’s gorgeous Alhambra, Seville’s mosques and bullfighting rings and abundant whitewashed and rock-hewn World Heritage sites scattered throughout. There are plenty of playas to play on too, perfect-for-basking-on coastline on both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and a calendar full of raucous religious festivals. Andalucia is sprawling and surprising with vast deserts and salt flats (it's easy to see why Sergio Leone found the region the ideal location for a shoot 'em up), and after a canter through the badlands there’s no greater pleasure than watching Sevillana dancers in a cosy bar, sloshing a sherry about and tucking in to tapas followed by something pungent and porky.
Destinations in Andalucia
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South of Seville and within touching distance of Africa, Cadiz Province – at the very bottom tip of western Europe – is a beguiling mix of Moorish and Castilian cultures.
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Architecturally astonishing and alive with history, the stately, statuesque city of Córdoba is an Andalucian wonderland of whitewashed walls and winding streets.
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Once you’ve spent a few days soaking up the art-fuelled ambience of Málaga, the province’s capital city, head a little further southwest to sun-kissed coastal towns and white-walled Andalusian villages.
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The sultry Andalucian province of Seville is the very soul of southern Spain: whitewashed villages decked with orange blossom; long hot afternoons in peaceful plazas; tapas and sherry after an evening stroll; passionate nights of flamenco and fiesta.
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Marbella has been the famously chic playground of old-school, look-at-me Mediterranean glamour for decades, and Marbella Club is one of the biggest reasons behind its rep. Opened by playboy Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe in 1951, the shore-side resort (which includes a spa, beach club, golf course, botanical gardens and champagne room, naturally) still attracts the glitz-garbed international jet set and those who like to watch them at play. Although these days, a lot of the younger guests slope off to barefoot-luxe coast club Nikki Beach down the road when they’re tired of lounging on the pool terrace…