The Best Hotels Near La Farola, by the Record
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The Matarraña region gets compared to Tuscany often enough that you stop rolling your eyes and just accept it. Mas de la Costa is a luxury boutique hotel built from an old stone farmhouse, surrounded by olive and almond groves with the Els Ports de Beceite peaks beyond. Suites have fireplaces and timbered ceilings; bathrooms are tiled by hand in Granada. The honesty bar sits inside the wine cellar, which is either very trusting or very clever.
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A 12th-century Arabic wall runs through the restaurant of this boutique hotel in Valencia's Old Town, which was a Gothic palace long before anyone thought to put a plunge pool on the terrace. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key. Guest rooms keep the medieval coffered ceilings and Moorish archways, then wrap them in monochromatic, gallery-spare decor that somehow makes the stonework feel more dramatic, not less.
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A boutique hotel tucked into a centuries-old building steps from Valencia's university, where the stone bones of the place meet clean modernist furniture and a very calm, pared-down interior. Rooms run from standard doubles up to penthouses with outdoor terraces, so there's room to negotiate on ambition. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. The neighborhood keeps you busy, but the all-day restaurant and bar means you don't have to leave if you'd rather not.
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A boutique hotel sitting a short walk from Valencia's cathedral and the Plaça de l'Ajuntament, which is about as central as a city will let you get. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. Public spaces are designed so locals drift in alongside guests, which keeps it from feeling like a sealed tourist bubble. The ground floor runs Japanese fusion at Salvaje; head up to the roof and El Mirador does classic Valencian bistro.
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A boutique hotel in an old palace on Plaza Manises, sitting atop a site where Romans once made perfume, which is either the best or most unusual footnote a hotel lobby has ever acquired. Rooms lean into 1930s Valencian Art Deco, all pastels and geometric trim with black and gold accents, while upper-category suites keep the original marble floors and restored mosaics. The restaurant and cocktail bar are named, naturally, after the ancient perfumery below.
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Two 19th-century palacete buildings stitched together and quietly turned into a boutique luxury hotel, selected by the Michelin Guide. A full recent renovation stripped out all the usual Regency fussiness and replaced it with pale woods, sliding bathroom doors, and a basement spa with a plunge pool carved into dark stone. Sixty-six rooms around central courtyards make it feel less like a city hotel than a resort, which is a neat trick in the middle of Valencia.
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Lorenzo Castillo's decorating brief seems to have been "French manor, English club, and Indian palace walk into a bar," and the result is 47 rooms that feel more like a collector's private house than a chain hotel, which is a minor miracle given NH is Spain's largest hotel brand. The heritage building on Carrer Colón puts you steps from the financial district and the best shopping, with a cocktail bar and a Mediterranean restaurant downstairs for the nights you don't wander far.
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A golf resort sitting inside the Albufera national park, with the Mediterranean on one side and a course widely considered among the finest on the continent on the other. The building is all modernist angles and big glass, and many rooms have balconies that face straight out to sea. Non-golfers get a spa, a gym, and a Mediterranean restaurant, so there's no real excuse not to come along.