A square still in shade. The sound of cups from a café doorway. Beyond the last houses, a road turns towards the sea. Spain invites a change of scene: from a city evening to an island morning, from streets of pale stone to the open coast. There is room here for more than one kind of escape.
Our Spanish collection begins on Mallorca, in the Tramuntana Mountains, where the village of Deià rests among olive terraces above the sea. Painters, writers and musicians have been drawn to these slopes for over a century, and it is here, in that same light, that our first Spanish address makes its home.
A table in the shade. The sea beyond. An afternoon left open.
We begin in Deià, with art indoors, sculptures among the gardens and dinner in a former olive mill. What draws us to a place is its relationship with the landscape, the food and the life around it, and there is more of Spain still to discover.
Deià's artistic heritage is part of its character. Stone houses climb the hillside between the Tramuntana and the Mediterranean.
In Deià, the mountain setting and the village's artistic life meet at La Residencia: a collection indoors, resident artists at work, sculptures set among the gardens. The landscape is part of the story; so are the people making art within it.
El Olivo, set in a former olive mill, gives the evening its focus, with the Tramuntana beyond the terrace. Dining belongs to the same landscape as the walk that led you to the table.
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Deià · Mallorca, Spain
In the artists' village of Deià, beneath the Tramuntana Mountains, La Residencia brings historic manor houses, olive groves and an extensive art collection into one estate. A sculpture garden and resident artists tie the hotel to the village's creative life, while El Olivo, set in a former olive mill, gives the evening its Mallorcan focus.
Art gives this address its character, from the collection indoors to the sculptures set among the gardens. With Deià and the Tramuntana as its backdrop, La Residencia opens a different chapter of Mallorca, one shaped as much by the village as by the view.