It’s a happy 70th birthday to one of Europe’s most superb resort hotels.
The Marbella Club first opened its doors in 1954 when aristocratic businessman Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe turned his family finca in a quiet fishing village in southern Spain into a 20-room hotel. His friends, many of them the jet-set of the day, soon discovered the area’s joys and the hotel became a byword for glamour and glitz, with Brigitte Bardot, Roger Moore and royalty coming to party.
