Marbella.
A prince's estate and a harbor made the Costa del Sol. The club of 1954, the port of 1970, and the estate in the hills behind them.
A prince's estate and a harbor made the Costa del Sol. The club of 1954, the port of 1970, and the estate in the hills behind them.
In 1946 Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe bought the Finca Santa Margarita, on the coast west of the old town of Marbella. He kept enlarging it for the guests he received, and in 1954 it opened as the Marbella Club Hotel. The stretch of coast it stands on is the Golden Mile.
José Banús, a property developer, built the marina at Nueva Andalucía, and it opened in May 1970. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, the Aga Khan, Roman Polanski and Hugh Hefner came to the opening. It holds berths for 915 boats, under the peak of La Concha. For the berths of the Riviera, see What a berth in Monaco costs.
Inland, in Benahavís, a group of businessmen led by Enrique Pérez laid out La Zagaleta in the 1990s on a 900-hectare estate with 2 golf courses. In December 2024 Modon Holding of Abu Dhabi bought the company that runs it.
Since 2012 the Starlite festival has played every summer in the Cantera de Nagüeles, a natural auditorium cut into the rock in the hills of Marbella. Along the coast in Sotogrande, Valderrama hosted the first Ryder Cup played in continental Europe, in 1997: more in Golf.
Marbella is on the board, with the tax, the route to residence, the schools and the cost of living on its own page. What €1 million buys there, against Monaco, Geneva and London, is in Real estate.
Sources. Famous Hotels, Marbella Club · Puerto Banús · idealista, Modon Holding buys La Zagaleta · Infobae, Modon Holding compra La Zagaleta, December 19, 2024 · Starlite Occident, about · Real Club Valderrama. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here. Photographs from Unsplash and Pexels, used under their licenses.
In 1954, on the Finca Santa Margarita, which Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe had bought in 1946.
In May 1970.
José Banús built it, and it holds berths for 915 boats.
A private estate in the hills of Benahavís, laid out in the 1990s on 900 hectares with 2 golf courses.
Modon Holding of Abu Dhabi bought the company that runs it in December 2024.
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