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Hacienda Benazuza
Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The hotel sits just fifteen minutes from Seville's Cathedral, Alcázar, and Triana flamenco district, close enough for day trips yet far enough to return to rural quiet each evening. Its orange grove and olive terrace have been under cultivation since the Moorish period, a working landscape rather than an ornamental one.
- Opened 1992
- Neighborhood: A-472
About Hacienda Benazuza
- Hacienda Benazuza began as a tenth-century Moorish alquería near Seville, later a resting place for King Alfonso X the Wise after his father Fernando III granted him the estate.
- Christian troops commanded from Benazuza conquered nearby Solucar castle on 28 June 1251, and the estate later passed through Castilian nobles and the Order of Santiago.
- From 1998 Ferran Adrià's elBulli team ran La Alquería here, bringing molecular gastronomy to Andalusia until the restaurant earned two Michelin stars by the early 2000s.
- Adrià opened two more restaurants at the hacienda, La Abacería and La Alberca, and used the project to test extending elBulli's three-hour dinner experience across a full hotel stay.
- The caserío was built around the parish church of San Francisco, and its horseshoe arches, zellige fountains, and walled gardens reflect more than a millennium of Moorish garden design.
History
Hacienda Benazuza, in Sanlucar la Mayor near Seville, has its origins in a 10th-century Moorish alqueria (farmstead) built by the Arabs after the conquest. Over the centuries it passed through many Castilian nobles - including the Order of Santiago - and served as a resting place for King Alfonso X 'El Sabio,' before being owned by the bull-breeding Pablo Romero family and sold in 1990 for the hotel project that opened in time for Expo '92 in Seville.
The five-star estate features an 18th-century church, a library and historic gardens. From 2004 to around 2013 it operated as the elBulliHotel in partnership with Ferran Adria, its restaurant La Alqueria serving avant-garde cuisine inspired by the legendary elBulli.
The setting
13 km from Las Minas Golf.
Amenities
- Atención personalizada para planificación y día del evento
- Eventos corporativos
- Eventos privados
- Bodas
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