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The Meliá Collection hotels
Named hotels preserve local stories, from restored Italian palazzos to coastal retreats in Spain.
The Meliá Collection gives individually named hotels a home within Meliá, preserving the buildings and stories that make them distinct. Restored palazzos, Buenos Aires’ Casa Lucía, and the MiM hotels along Spain’s coasts and mountains share the group’s service and loyalty program while retaining their own atmosphere.
12 The Meliá Collection hotels in 5 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Meliá Hotels International
- Worldwide: Ten operating properties: the MiM lifestyle portfolio (six hotels) and four urban Collection flags (Casa Lucía, Residenza del Cardinale, Casa de las Artes, Hacienda del Mar)
- On the atlas: 1 Core Luxury, 11 Accessible Luxury
History
Gabriel Escarrer’s family company developed The Meliá Collection to give its more individual properties room to retain their identities. Casa Lucía in Buenos Aires shows the approach in a building that had already passed through different hotel chapters. The existing name and architecture remain central, with Meliá bringing a shared hospitality framework.
Timeline
- 1956 — Gabriel Escarrer Juliá, then 21, leases the Altair Hotel in Palma de Mallorca, founding the company that becomes Meliá Hotels International.
- 1987 — Escarrer's company acquires the luxury-oriented Meliá hotel group (founded by José Meliá Sinisterra), renaming itself Sol Meliá and setting the template for a multi-brand luxury portfolio.
- 2021 — Meliá formalizes The Meliá Collection as a distinct soft-brand tier alongside its hard luxury flags.
- 2022 — The MiM lifestyle portfolio, Sitges, Sotogrande, Mallorca, Ibiza, Baqueira, and Andorra, is consolidated under the Collection umbrella.
- 2023 — Residenza del Cardinale in Milan joins as the Collection's Italian urban flagship.
- 2024 — Casa de las Artes in Barcelona reopens under Meliá Collection after a full restoration.
- 2025 — Meliá acquires and relaunches Casa Lucía in Buenos Aires, an iconic Porteño tower with a Sofitel-then-Único lineage, and Hacienda del Mar in Estepona joins as the Collection's Andalusian coast resort.
The houses to know
- Casa Lucía, Meliá Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina — A Porteño tower that operated for years as the Sofitel Buenos Aires Arroyo before a brief life under independent operator Único Hotels, revived again as Meliá's South American Collection anchor in 2025.
- Maison Colbert, member of Melia Collection Notre-Dame, Paris, France — The hotel is in Paris, France.
- Villa Marquis a Member of Melia Collection Tour Eiffel, Paris, France — The sign at 35 Rue Jean Goujon used to read Meliá Royal Alma.
- Casa de las Artes, Meliá Collection, Madrid, Spain — The hotel reopened in 2024 after a full restoration, with art central to its identity.
- Residenza del Cardinale, Meliá Collection, Milan, Italy — A 13th-century palazzo on Via Cardinal Federico, steps from the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, restored by the Fumagalli family at a cost of €20 million to replace private apartments and street-level shops with 28 rooms and suites.
- MiM Sotogrande, Sotogrande, Spain — A family-friendly MiM address on the Costa del Sol's polo-and-marina enclave, with Michelin-starred chef Nandu Jubany's HINCHA restaurant blending Argentine flavors into the menu, a nod to Messi's own roots.
- Hacienda del Mar, Meliá Collection, Estepona, Spain — A beachfront property on the Costa del Sol first opened in 1999 under the patronage of Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe, the aristocrat credited with turning nearby Marbella into a jet-set destination.
- MiM Andorra, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra — A 34-room boutique hotel with a free shuttle to the Funicamp cable car and Grandvalira's ski slopes.
- MiM Baqueira Beret, Baqueira Beret, Spain — A 137-room ski-in, ski-out hotel steps from the Baqueira TC gondola in the Aran Valley, with Nandu Jubany's HINCHA restaurant serving Michelin-level Argentine-Catalan cooking after a day on the slopes.
- MiM Mallorca, Sant Llorenc des Cardassar, Spain — Two seafront blocks shaped like a boat's keel around a four-sided infinity pool, built between 2019 and 2021 on Mallorca's S'Illot coast.
Newest openings
- Casa Lucía, Meliá Collection — Buenos Aires, Argentina — 2025 — a revived Porteño landmark tower; Small Luxury Hotels member; named Argentina's Leading Hotel 2025 by the World Travel Awards.
- Casa de las Artes, Meliá Collection — Barcelona, Spain — reopened 2024 — a cultural repositioning in the Eixample district.
Opening next
- Meliá's wider luxury pipeline includes additional Collection conversions, with heavier openings expected toward 2028.
Every The Meliá Collection hotel on the atlas
Spain
- Casa de las Artes, Meliá Collection — Madrid · Accessible Luxury
- Hacienda del Mar, Meliá Collection — Estepona · Accessible Luxury
- MiM Baqueira Beret — Baqueira Beret · Accessible Luxury
- MiM Ibiza — Ibiza · Accessible Luxury
- MiM Mallorca — Sant Llorenc des Cardassar · Accessible Luxury
- MiM Sitges — Sitges · Accessible Luxury
- MiM Sotogrande — Sotogrande · Accessible Luxury
France
- Maison Colbert, member of Melia Collection Notre-Dame — Paris · Accessible Luxury
- Villa Marquis a Member of Melia Collection Tour Eiffel — Paris · Accessible Luxury
Andorra
- MiM Andorra — Escaldes-Engordany · Accessible Luxury
Argentina
- Casa Lucía, Meliá Collection — Buenos Aires · Core Luxury
Italy
- Residenza del Cardinale, Meliá Collection — Milan · Accessible Luxury
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