The Best Hotels Near Benet, by the Record
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A former Carthusian monastery in the foothills of Montsant Natural Park, now a boutique wine country hotel with three Michelin Keys. The monks had excellent taste in real estate, and guests are the beneficiaries: rooms keep the beamed ceilings and stone walls while adding rain showers and espresso machines, with suites stepping up to freestanding tubs. The estate's own wine flows freely at the on-site restaurant, and the outdoor pool makes the most of the scenery.
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The spa is built into an old wine and olive-oil mill, which tells you most of what you need to know about this place. It's a boutique hotel in the Priorat wine country, southwest of Barcelona, where the windows frame rows of vines and medieval villages sit just over the ridge. Rooms run contemporary inside a property with serious old bones, and the pool handles the afternoons well. Wine tasting and a fine-dining table round out the stay.
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Forty minutes south of Barcelona along the Costa Daurada, this seaside resort trades the city's noise for 143 minimalist rooms with seaside-colored accents and, in the better ones, private terraces overlooking the water. The Ra Wellness Thalasso Spa anchors the place, built around purified high-iodine Mediterranean seawater and La Prairie treatments across a sprawling footprint. Dining spreads across a poolside grill, a terrace bar, and a beachside restaurant with the sea doing all the decorating.
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The fanciful spires and parapets of this late-19th-century Catalan palace look less like a hotel than a fever dream of a building, which is part of the point. Inside, the original ornate rooms have kept their opulence while a newer wing adds ten suites in clean, unadorned lines with local timber. A spa and hydrotherapy center rounds things out. The old carriage house holds a Michelin-starred restaurant, and a culinary school for guests reluctant to go home hungry.