The Best Hotels Near La Tarara, by the Record
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Three sixteenth-century buildings, one of them formerly a church, arranged around a series of open Andalusian patios on Marbella's prettiest old-town square. The hotel holds its Michelin Key, and the original stone archways and ceiling frescoes have been kept while the nineteen rooms go quietly modern, with wood-beamed ceilings, marble showers, and Marshall speakers as standard. The rooftop bar, summer evenings only, looks out over the old town to the sea.
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Six rooms and a suite, tucked into a 17th-century mansion in Marbella's old town, a quiet rebuke to everything the Costa del Sol is usually doing wrong. Original Moorish tilework and peaked timber ceilings share space with flat-screens and bathroom fixtures that arrived this century, and the rooftop terrace handles both breakfast and evening drinks with minimal fuss. Small, well-considered, and a long way from the tower-block norm down the coast.
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A 14th-century Arab fortress half an hour from Sevilla, now operating as a hotel through Spain's Paradores network, which turns historic monuments into places to sleep by letting guests fund the upkeep. Rooms lean into the history without making you feel like a museum exhibit, and the restaurant serves classic Andalusian cooking in the old refectory or on a terrace that looks out over the Carmona countryside and, on a clear day, most of the province.