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Spanish Hotels with History :: Torre Martí

Where: c/Ramón Llull 11, Sant Julia de Vilatorta, Barcelona, Spain, 08504

After spending two weeks recapping the Lisbon Hotel Scene for us, Monica Guy is back with some history lessons. She's chronicling some of Spain's historic hotels this week. Enjoy.

Spain's renowned for its chain hotels and beachside biggies, but the best places to stay are the smaller, lesser-known hotels heaving with history and atmosphere. Here's our number one Hotel with History in Spain: the Hotel Torre Martí, a short drive from Barcelona.

We have high standards here at HotelChatter, as you know, but this place is seriously fabulous. It's a huge, deep red villa surrounded by fountained gardens and curtains of trees, the kind of place you can imagine wealthy ancient Romans retreating to in summer (it was originally a summer retreat when it was built in 1945).

It's now owned by an irresistibly attractive dark-eyed Spaniard named Roger and his artist/chef father, who've turned it into a boutique hotel par excellence.

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