One of the largest investment projects in Spain
Delighted to inform that Marbella Town Hall has finally unblocked one of the most awaited investments in the tourism sector: the new Four Seasons Resort. The resort will be built on the eastern side of the city on a plot belonging to our HoteliersGuild Ambassador and curator of the International Hospitality Hall of Fame Ricardo Arranz, owner of the Villa Padierna Hotels & Resorts. The planned investment is 650 million euros and the complex is expected to create up to 4,000 jobs during the construction period. The project had been stalled for years, waiting for a regulatory framework that would allow the development within the bureaucratic tangle of Marbella’s town planning.
The Four Seasons Resort in Marbella will carry a very prestigious architectural seal. Renowned architect Richard Meier, holder of the Pritzker prize, has been tasked with the design of the new development. It will join the iconic design of Rio Real Golf, created in 1965 by Javier Arana, one of the world’s best golf course designers. It will be his first development project on the Costa del Sol and will join such iconic landmarks as the Douglas House in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Getty Centre in Los Angeles and The Hague City Hall.
In addition to this, there will be a wide range of leisure activities, especially shopping with the best boutique brands on the market. The hotel intends to have some of the most illustrious fashion brands in its premises, so that its guests can buy them without having to travel to other parts of the city.
Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Marbella
Designed by Richard Meier and Partners, Four Seasons Marbella is a whitewashed destination that feels as pure and pastoral as the Pueblos Blancos of Andalusia, albeit with a clean-lined zist-Century look. Spread over 27 hillside hectares that descend to the Mediterranean Sea, the property includes mountain side and oceanfront hotel suites with spectacular views, a decadent spa and wellness center, low-slung buildings with terraced apartments, townhouses built around leafy courtyards, and spacious private villas surrounded by olive groves. And then theres The Beach Club- the gorgeous social hub of the project- where you’ll find alfresco restaurants shaded by suspended canvases and rows of breezy cabanas facing a 200-meter-long infinity pool with seawater. All around is the most picture-perfect natural setting: a seemingly endless secluded beach backed by the rocky Sierra Blanca mountains.
“White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon.”
— R. Meier
