Concentrated in Ibiza (10), Madrid (7), Mallorca (6), Barcelona (5), Marbella (3), Tenerife (2).
ENTRIES63
House
Person
CONTROL13 of these entries have a recorded holder
Who owns and operates them, from the Capital section.
Bursha Holdings / Shamoon family · owner · owner
Bursha Holdings / Shamoon family · owner · owner
Matutes family / Palladium Hotel Group · Ushuaïa Ibiza · owner
Société des Bains de Mer · Amazónico Monte-Carlo · owner
Sandro Silva & Marta Seco · founders · founder
Esteban family / Natura Bissé · owners · owner
Bursha Holdings / Shamoon family · ⚑ to confirm · owner
Trilantic Capital Partners · owner · investor
AIRE Ancient Baths · operator · operator
Fleury & Thorogood / El Chiringuito · founders · founder
FIVE Holdings · owner from 2023, reported €302.5m · owner
Matutes family / Palladium Hotel Group · owner · owner
Matutes family / Palladium Hotel Group · landlord 1989–2016 · owner
Café del Mar · founders · owner
CHRONOLOGY66 dated events
Meat stalls are first documented on the Pla de la Boqueria, on the Rambla outside the Barcelona walls
Café Gijón opens on the Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid, on 15 May
Santo Mauro is built in Madrid for the Duke of Santo Mauro; it becomes a hotel in 1991
The Ritz Madrid opens, promoted by Alfonso XIII after he found no hotel fit for his guests
The María Cristina opens at San Sebastián, named for the queen regent
The Palace opens in Madrid at the wish of Alfonso XIII, with the largest stained-glass dome in Spain
Antoni de Falguera's Modernist arches are installed at the Rambla entrance; the metal roof follows in 1914 and ends the era of open stalls
The Mercado de San Miguel opens in Madrid, its iron-and-glass hall modelled on Les Halles
The Palace opens in Barcelona as the Ritz, on the Gran Via
The Alfonso XIII opens in Seville for the Ibero-American Exposition
Spain opens its first parador, at Gredos, on the king's initiative
Adan Diehl opens the Hotel Formentor on Mallorca
The Ensesa family opens the Hostal de la Gavina at S'Agaró
Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club and invents the Costa del Sol season
Alfonso von Hohenlohe opens the Marbella Club — the aristocratic house party as a hotel
Castillo Son Vida opens in a thirteenth-century Mallorcan castle
Adán Diehl builds La Residencia at Deià on Mallorca
Ricardo Urgell opens the first Pacha in Sitges
Rudolf von Schönburg becomes general manager of the Marbella Club and stays fifty years
Hacienda Na Xamena opens on the north cliffs of Ibiza
Ricardo Urgell founds Pacha
Pacha Ibiza opens at Ses Feixes, built to look like a finca
Antonio Escohotado leases a farmhouse at San Rafael and opens what becomes Amnesia
Natura Bissé is founded in Barcelona
Café del Mar opens in San Antonio on 20 June, built to face the sunset
Richard Branson buys La Residencia at Deià on Mallorca
Renfe begins the Al Andalus and Transcantábrico services in Spain
The second summer of love: Oakenfold, Rampling and Fung take Alfredo's Amnesia sound to London
Pepe Roselló leases the Platja d'en Bossa building from the Matutes family and opens Space
Theo Gerlach's Seaside Collection opens its first Canary Islands house
José Padilla takes the residency at Café del Mar and begins curating the sunset as a sequence
Bahía del Duque opens in Tenerife as a Canarian village
Padilla compiles Café del Mar Volumen Uno — chillout becomes a commercial genre
David Shamoon buys Puente Romano and Marbella Club
Ocean Club opens at Marbella on the Golden Mile
Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine opens in a twelfth-century abbey in Ribera del Duero
Meliá launches Gran Meliá as its luxury line
Hospes opens its first Spanish house
Barceló launches Royal Hideaway
AIRE Ancient Baths opens in Spain
Paradisus launches as Meliá's all-inclusive resort line
The Mardavall opens on Mallorca's south-west coast
Abama opens on Tenerife to a design by Melvin Villarroel
Marqués de Riscal opens in Elciego under Frank Gehry's titanium ribbons
ME by Meliá opens its first house
Blue Marlin opens at Cala Jondal — the VIP table on the sand
Alfredo Bataller Parietti opens SHA Wellness Clinic at Alicante
El Chiringuito opens at Es Cavallet
Finca Cortesin opens at Casares in Andalusia
Cap Rocat opens in a nineteenth-century Mallorcan fortress
Private investors reopen San Miguel as a gourmet tapas market — the model of the market as a dining room, since copied worldwide
Abel Matutes Prats and Yann Pissenem open Ushuaïa Ibiza
Iberostar launches Grand and Selection as its upper tiers
Castell Son Claret opens in a Mallorcan estate
Amazónico opens in Madrid
Sandro Silva and Marta Seco open Amazónico in Madrid
Space closes on 2 October after 27 seasons, its lease not renewed
Trilantic buys Pacha Group for €350m
Hï Ibiza opens in the same building under Ushuaïa Entertainment
The Tais opens in Georgia
José Padilla dies on 18 October
Rosewood takes the Villa Magna in Madrid
Meliá gathers its most distinctive houses into The Meliá Collection
Trilantic sells the Pacha nightclubs and hotels to FIVE for ~€320m, keeping Lío
FIVE Holdings buys the Pacha clubs and hotels for a reported €302.5m
A Valencia court annuls Roselló's Space trademark in favour of the Matutes family
Notes on the series. Hotel-native institutions enter as cross-references inside the article of the house that holds them, not as separate codes — a bar or spa receives its own entry only when it has become a name in its own right. Seasonal and fashion collaborations are recorded as dated lines within a house, never as entries. Residential clinics and estates, however wellness-led, belong to the main register: they sell nights. Entries carry permanent LHL-S codes once published; drafts await verification by two independent sources. · Published by LVXVRY under Editorial Manifesto LHL-001 v1.6.