This country-style hotel is best known as the place where the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote The Spanish Trilogy. Its terrace, perched on a dramatic precipice, offers commanding views of the countryside. An Englishman built this Victorian charmer in 1906 to honor his recently deceased monarch, Queen Victoria. This onetime private villa, located within the walls of the Alhambra, is one of the most popular small hotels in Granada. Its cozy bedrooms are filled with reproductions of Andalusian antiques.
Plants cascade down the white plaster walls the ornate grillwork on the shady patio.
Good-tasting, inexpensive meals are served in the hotel restaurant. This is the most charming of affordable hotels along the Costa del Sol. Though built in the 1970s, it blends in perfectly with the region's gleaming white buildings. Grove, a formidable date-palm forest. Between Alicante and Murcia, this is one of the choice addresses in the south of Spain.