Fodor's Expert Review Belmond La Residencia

Built around two 16th-century manor houses, with additional buildings blending with the lush surroundings, this exceptional hotel is superbly furnished with Mallorcan antiques, modern canvases, and canopied four-poster beds. Herbs, olives, fruit, and flowers from the hotel's verdant landscaped gardens come straight to the kitchen and the guest rooms. El Olivo, the restaurant, serves a continental menu that includes delicious dishes such as delicate yellowtail tartare with cucumber pearls and avocado cream, or local honey-glazed suckling pig. Art is everywhere: joining the eclectic in-house gallery and the 750 original works in the guest rooms, the hotel offers artist-in-residency programs that lure in global talent. The hotel also operates its own shuttle to the sea at Cala Deià.