A ravishing newcomer has not too long ago swept onto Madrid’s bustling resort scene—and it’s making company really feel like royalty, for good motive.
Madrid’s newly unveiled Santo Mauro is a chic oasis within the metropolis heart.
The dazzling Santo Mauro—which debuted final December as a marquee member of Marriott International’s celebrated Luxury Collection—is the one resort in Madrid housed in a real palace from the flip of the century. Inbuilt 1902 with a definite French aptitude for the Duke of Santo Mauro—an influential politician and socialite—the singular resort additionally served as an embassy in its earlier lives (the Swedish embassy presently stands proper throughout the road). Now, following an exuberant renovation, the distinguished deal with within the metropolis’s tony Chamberí neighborhood—a leafy longtime enclave for aristocratic madrileños—is luring discerning vacationers searching for a decidedly completely different keep within the coronary heart of Spain’s buzzing capital metropolis.
Famend Spanish inside designer, Lorenzo Castillo, helmed the three-building property’s newest transformation (most not too long ago, it was a part of Marriott’s Autograph Assortment), imbuing it with an opulent but trendy really feel that pays homage to its storied heritage. The widespread areas evoke an 18th-century Spanish home, which regularly juxtaposed varied design types. Within the gorgeous Chinese language Lounge, toile wallpaper, ornate ebony cupboards, and luxe splashes of silver and rose create a stylishly soothing visible mélange. Close by, the show-stopping Pink Room—awash in lush silks and velvets in boldly patterned garnet and Prussian blue, and accented with fanciful white molding, Chinoiserie ceramics, and pops of greenery—packs a luxurious aesthetic punch.
The Pink Room showcases the resort’s opulent but trendy aesthetic.
That includes excessive beds boasting down toppers and Frette linens, the 49 guestrooms (together with 10 suites) have been revamped in impartial earth tones with pure supplies together with stone, marble and wooden, whereas plush leather-based and velvet furnishings amplify the resort’s inherent class. Castillo’s visionary skills manifest with explicit gusto within the luxurious suites; one options a fascinating tree-of-life motif, whereas one other is swathed in a smooth teal wallpaper bedecked with flower vases, full with an identical mattress crown lined in wealthy chocolate velvet.
Ten luxurious suites spotlight the dazzling eye of Spanish inside designer Lorenzo Castillo.
Santo Mauro’s delicacies soars as excessive because the rarefied décor. Chef Rafael Peña—proprietor of Barcelona’s acclaimed restaurant, Gresca—creates world-class tasting menus on the golden-hued La Biblioteca, the palace’s authentic library, lined with books and vintage treasures from the Duke of Santo Mauro’s non-public assortment. The Spanish ritual of late breakfast kicks off the day in memorable style, due to heat but pin-sharp service, impossibly contemporary orange juice, and delectable dishes like an Iberian ham muffin with pulp of Mallorca’s prized Ramallet tomato, grown on the island for the reason that 16th century.
The timelessly refined La Biblioteca restaurant brims with books and antiques from the non-public … [+]
These trying to unwind in excessive fashion will wish to beeline to El Jardin, the resort’s achingly atmospheric backyard, one other rarity for a resort within the metropolis heart. Surrounded by century-old chestnut bushes and bursting with clever landscaping, it’s a major perch for classy gentle bites on the brand new outside terrace, or for a soignée non-public occasion fantastically lit by hanging lanterns. After dinner, the sleekly stylish El Bar—as soon as the billiards room of the Duke—makes a seductive spot for a craft cocktail.
Different distinctive touches distinguish Santo Mauro among the many spate of latest notable resort openings (4 Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, and Rosewood amongst them) in Madrid. The primary and solely Luxurious Assortment resort within the metropolis, it’s additionally the its solely resort to have a soundtrack composer (Lucas Vidal, winner of a Goya Award—Spain’s equal of the Academy Award) as in-house musical director. Visitors can take a colourful historic tour of the property, and luxuriate in a every day “epicurean second”: a Casilda cocktail—named for the Duchess of Santo Mauro—made with vodka, campari, and syrup from its centenary chestnut bushes.
The backyard’s new outside terrace provides a major vacation spot for gentle chunk or non-public occasion.
The resort additionally debuts as Spain triumphantly rebounds from the pandemic journey slowdown. The nation expects worldwide vacationer arrivals to reach 80% of pre-pandemic volumes in the second quarter—thanks largely to a slew of Easter guests final month—and can also be one among this summer season’s top-10 worldwide locations, in line with Virtuoso, a world community of luxurious journey advisors.
Madrid has been busily gussying up for its subsequent star flip. The circa-1540 Paseo del Prado—arguably the town’s most iconic boulevard, acknowledged as the primary tree-lined avenue in a European capital—and the adjoining Buen Retiro park, a verdant city oasis comprising 15,000 bushes, have been added to Unesco’s World Heritage listing final yr.
In the meantime, a fancy, two-and-a-half-year redesign of the Plaza de España, one among Madrid’s most visited squares, was accomplished final November, rerouting its once-notorious site visitors underground and planting greater than 1,200 bushes in and across the plaza. Most notably, the revamp has prioritized pedestrians and cyclists, creating inexperienced corridors linking public areas together with the Plaza de Oriente, the Sabatini Gardens, and the Royal Palace.
For extra data or to guide, go to the Santo Mauro website.
