Grand Hotel Son Net –Puigpunyent, Mallorca

On this soul-stirring island, the pleasures are simple. Just a 20-minute drive from Palma in the foothills of the UNESCO World Heritage Tramuntana Mountains, is Grand Hotel Son Net; a stylishly understated, artfilled hideaway on a private Majorcan estate dating back to 1672. Grand Hotel Son Net is today newly independently co-owned and under the acclaimed management of the team behind Finca Cortesin – the enchanting, award-winning Southern Spanish bolt hole in Andalusia – and is being lovingly and meticulously restored with respect and thoughtfulness, to re-emerge in Spring 2023.

Over centuries, this Majorcan manor house was passed down through the hands of several prominent Spanish families and became one of the most prestigious residential estates on the island. With just 31 suites, upon reopening, Grand Hotel Son Net will juxtapose elegant, palatial architecture with tastefully transformed interiors that are relaxed, romantic and with intimate breath-taking views-for-days, citrus orchards and lush Mediterranean gardens. Famed for its history and classical design, during its transformation, Grand Hotel Son Net will preserve many of the mansion’s original features: rustic beams, stone floors and archways, carved wooden ceilings, antique fireplaces, an original 17th century interior courtyard and spring-fed well and private family chapel. There will also be a curated private art collection.

With a boundless private landscape spanning 57,000 square meters, there will be multiple pools flanked by shaded cabanas, encircled by impeccably tended lawns and flowerbeds that give way to an ecological vegetable and herb garden, small farm and vineyard. Food will all be locally sourced, with native orange and lemon trees growing on the bucolic estate, fresh seafood procured directly from the island and fresh olive oil tastings from a century-old olive press. The vineyard will produce Malvasia white wine that supplies the large,