Destination

Spain

Edition · 2026

A country whose tables hold the highest pressure in Europe and whose old towns hide them behind plain stone doors. Our Spanish chapter opens slowly, on a single street in Cáceres.

Spain enters the edit in the medieval quarter of Cáceres — a town of palaces in pale granite, shut against the heat, opening to courtyards and to one of the great dining rooms in Europe. The country will broaden later — Andalucía, Galicia, the Pyrenees — but the first chapter sits on Plaza de San Mateo, with thirty-six years of two friends behind it and three Michelin stars over the door.

From the carnet · Spain

May 5Terra Dominicata · EscaladeiA restored Carthusian farmhouse in DOQ Priorat under the Serra de Montsant, a kilometre and a half from the ruined Cartoixa d'Escaladei — twenty-six rooms, twenty-two hectares of organic vines, a chapel, a pool above the valley, and Fran López in the kitchen.
May 5Torre del Marqués · MonroyoA 1702 manor of the Marqueses de Santa Coloma, restored as a five-star hotel in the Matarraña — eighteen rooms in pale Aragonese stone, the Atalaya del Tastavins kitchen, four outdoor gastronomic corners across the estate, and a long Aragonese pause at the edge of the Beceite mountains.
May 5Hotel Pepe Vieira · RaxoFourteen woodland galpones above the Ría de Pontevedra, behind a two-Michelin-star kitchen written from the Atlantic edge — a Galician landscape hotel from chef Xosé T. Cannas.
May 5La Donaira · RondaA 700-hectare regenerative farm in the Serranía de Ronda — nine rooms in a 111-year-old cortijo, ninety Lusitano horses at liberty across the estate, biointensive kitchen gardens, a regenerative vineyard, and a single open kitchen reading from all of it.
May 5Atrio · CaceresA three-Michelin-star restaurant in the medieval old town of Cáceres, kept since 1986 by Toño Pérez and Jose Polo, with a Mansilla + Tuñón dining room, a circular cellar of forty thousand bottles and the largest collection of Château d'Yquem in the world.
May 5Mater Terrae · EscaladeiThe restaurant inside Terra Dominicata in DOQ Priorat — a separate building of the restored Carthusian farmstead, with Fran López (Xerta, Villa Retiro) at the gastronomic direction and a wine wall of more than three hundred Priorat and Montsant references.

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Sister countries.

FranceA country read slowly. From the river light of Paris to the quieter harbours of the south — a deliberate collection of stays, tables and passages where time lengthens.
ItalyA country read aloud. From the cool light of the lakes to the long afternoons of the south — cities, hill towns and tables we keep returning to.
United KingdomA small register on the British Isles — country houses, walled gardens and the longer English weekend.

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