The Mar-Vent Hotel opened above the terraced cliffs of Banyalbufar in 1931, perched at the edge of the UNESCO-listed Serra de Tramuntana with the Mediterranean dropping away below it. Nearly a century later, architects Álvaro Onieva and Álvaro Mesonero Romanos of Estudio Mesonero Romanos, working alongside ANNUA co-CEO Álvaro Sasiambarrena, have transformed that same building into Gran Hotel Margalida, a 29-room adults-only property that returns the structure to life without erasing what time deposited in it. The lime-rendered sandstone facades, arcaded loggias, and honey-coloured shutters visible from the pool terrace carry the quiet confidence of a building that knows where it stands. Virginia Nieto's interiors extend that calm inward: exposed timber ceiling beams left dark and structural, limestone floors worn pale, armchairs upholstered in fine ticking stripe, and throughout, a bespoke yellow — bright as saffron, soft as morning sun on plaster — developed exclusively for the hotel and carried from poolside umbrellas to lacquered tables on the terrace. The outdoor spaces step down toward the sea in a sequence of white-balustraded sun decks, the infinity pool at their edge dissolving into a view of open water that makes the whole arrangement feel less like a hotel and more like a clifftop village compressed into a single property. At dusk, the rooftop restaurant terrace is covered by billowing white canvas panels suspended between dark steel frames, candlelight catching the colour of the sky as it shifts from rose to deep blue over the bay.