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The Marbella Club: is there anyone who wouldn't like this hotel?

Source: Marbella Club

It’s a happy 70th birthday to one of Europe’s most superb resort hotels.

The 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 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,

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