Top 10 Luxury Hotels in Spain, 2026

Madrid's grande dame, opened in 1910 as the Hotel Ritz and reborn in 2021 as the Mandarin Oriental Ritz after a three-year, ground-up restoration. On the Plaza de la Lealtad in the Golden Triangle of Art — steps from the Prado — with a gilded rotunda, the glass-roofed Palm Court, five Quique Dacosta dining concepts and, for the first time in its history, a spa.

Rosewood's debut in Spain — the storied 1972 Villa Magna on the Paseo de la Castellana, reborn in 2021 as a residential-style Salamanca retreat by BAR Studio. Apartment-like rooms with dressing rooms, a preserved 1970s stained-glass staircase, a glazed garden courtyard, Michelin-pedigree dining from Jesús Sánchez at Amós, and a full wellness floor.

Patricia Urquiola's design landmark on Passeig de Gràcia, steps from Gaudí and the Eixample's boutiques. Serene, contemporary interiors, a moody subterranean spa and pool, a rooftop terrace with a plunge pool, and Michelin-starred Catalan dining at Moments from Carme Ruscalleda — the city's benchmark for design-led calm.

Philippe Starck's maximalist design hotel on the Gran Vía — the Evok Collection's Spain debut, opened at the end of 2024. Behind a restored 1920s façade, 57 rooms and suites are staged like a collector's apartment, part 1920s café, part art-filled home, with a glamorous ground-floor restaurant and a spa and pool downstairs. Unlike anything else in the city.

A 19th-century Basque villa turned intimate boutique hotel, and one of the most characterful stays in San Sebastián. Built in 1898 and now a Small Luxury Hotels member, it keeps its high-ceilinged salons, fireplaces and carved staircase across just 25 rooms — 15 in the villa, 10 in the converted stables — set among heritage gardens, minutes from La Concha and the pintxos of the old town.

On the unspoiled north coast at Xarraca Bay, far from the clubs, Six Senses Ibiza is the antidote to party Ibiza — cave-pool suites and cliff villas, organic farmhouse dining, and one of the most comprehensive Six Senses spas in Europe (with RoseBar longevity). Wellness, sunsets and hidden coves rather than nightlife.

Two 16th-century manor houses in the artists' village of Deià, on a hillside of olive and citrus terraces above the Tramuntana coast. A serious art collection (Miró among it), a sculpture garden, a tapas-and-hammam spa, and the Michelin-recommended El Olivo restaurant make it Mallorca's most romantic, creative retreat.

An Andalusian estate between Marbella and Sotogrande, with vast suites, one of Europe's finest golf courses (host of the 2023 Solheim Cup), a beach club, and a serene spa — all in a low-slung cortijo style set among gardens and olive groves. Understated, spacious and impeccably run, it is the Costa del Sol's most refined address.

The hotel that created the Marbella legend — founded in 1954 by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe as a beachfront playground for European aristocracy, and still a bougainvillea-draped garden resort of bungalows and villas on the Golden Mile. A beach club, a Thalasso spa and old-world glamour make it a living piece of Riviera-of-Spain history.

A 12th-century abbey turned wine-estate hotel in the Ribera del Duero, surrounded by its own vineyards an hour from Valladolid. Elegant rooms in the restored monastery, a Santuario spa, and the Michelin-starred Refectorio restaurant in the former refectory make it Spain's finest wine-country retreat — history, gastronomy and vines in one.