Sundowner: Autumn/Winter 2019
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MAJORCA<br />
BALEARIC HIGH<br />
A HILLTOP LOCATION, PANORAMIC VIEWS AND ULTRA-CHIC<br />
DÉCOR: VILLA SONREI, ON MAJORCA’S<br />
NORTH COAST, TICKS ALL THE BOXES,<br />
SAYS NATALIE PARIS<br />
Sun-washed and cosmopolitan, with a green and<br />
muscular interior, characterful towns, and some of the<br />
Mediterranean’s finest beaches, Majorca is a firm favourite<br />
among British travellers. For many, this gem of the Balearics<br />
offers the ideal combination of lush countryside, golden sand,<br />
great restaurants, and upmarket beach clubs.<br />
While there are numerous postcard-pretty coves along<br />
the coastline to soak up the influx of visitors between spring<br />
and late summer, it is the north of the island that attracts those<br />
in the know. It is here that you can find an exclusive getaway<br />
close to some of the wildest scenery and most peaceful bays on<br />
the island.<br />
Port de Pollença, with its genteel atmosphere and quiet<br />
prettiness, is one of the current in-vogue spots on Majorca’s<br />
northerly peninsula, which ends in the ruggedly beautiful<br />
Cap de Formentor.<br />
Anyone who found themselves hooked to BBC One’s gripping<br />
drama The Night Manager a few years back will have seen Pine<br />
Walk, the romantic promenade along the coast here which<br />
featured in an episode. Curving along the top of the bay, the<br />
walkway is lapped by a sparkling, shallow sea, and shaded by<br />
deliciously scented pine branches.<br />
At the furthest end is a rocky headland crowned by an old<br />
fort, La Fortaleza, now part of a luxury estate that provided the<br />
setting for the lavish home of Hugh Laurie’s dastardly character.<br />
Across the Bay of Pollença, topping a hill opposite, is the equally<br />
beautiful Villa Sonrei, where I decided to take my family for an<br />
indulgent escape far from the crowds of Majorca’s south.<br />
Climbing up the winding driveway, past a tennis court and<br />
vines of bougainvillea, you will certainly feel that you have<br />
arrived. You might, however, regret not having done so in<br />
grander style, once you spot the private helipad, sat just opposite<br />
the soaring stone columns that mark the villa’s front door.<br />
From the pictures I had pored over beforehand, I had been<br />
most excited to see the villa’s views and its two pools, but even<br />
the entrance hall drew a low “wow” from our party. It is a whitewalled,<br />
double-storey wonder – like stepping into an art gallery<br />
– flooded with light and enlivened with blazing red Ron Arad<br />
chairs and stark white Cappellini lamps.<br />
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