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Sotogrande is known as the epitome of luxury living. Located on the coast of Spain, it also is a great place for those that love being close to the sea. This allows for its residents to live both a healthy and active lifestyle, whether that be by going to the beach or by taking up […]
When the visionary owners founded Sotogrande sixty years ago, almost their first move was to instruct the great American golf architect, Robert Trent Jones Snr, to design a golf course adjacent to Sotogrande’s Mediterranean coast. Soon Sotogrande became synonymous with great golf courses and championship golf at the highest level and here they all are. […]
Where is Sotogrande? The resort of Sotogrande is privately owned and it’s located in San Roque, Cadiz. It’s the largest gated community in Europe. Sotogrande is famous for its luxury lifestyle. There are exclusive properties and unrivalled sports facilities for polo, tennis and world championship golf. First class restaurants, bars and boutiques provide the town […]
From a business perspective perhaps the best and most positive news in Sotogrande in 2021 was the completion of the sale of all the fantastic ARK houses in El Mirador at La Reserva. When the project to create a small gated community with 24 hour security and build four houses in excess of €1800m2 on plots of over 5000m2 was unfolded by Sotogrande, S.A. in 2017, the usual doubters were out in force. These are the same negative thinkers who said The Beach at La Reserva Club had no chance of working and whose definition of progress is actually to regress to the ‘good old days ‘ of Sotogrande when socializing was something that happened in peoples’ houses. A classic example was when Trocadero started and there was an outcry from those who frequented the old Cucurucho Beach Club despite the fact that it had descended into an establishment where the food and service simply could not have been worse. Slowly but surely, and thankfully, our moaners are having to bite their tongues although the present target is the superb SO/Sotogrande where even a few teething problems make our negative friends say they long for the days of the old Almenara Hotel which was frankly dreadful in its latter years. I am convinced, however, that it won’t be long before they are total silent – well perhaps almost totally silent!
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘unique’as ‘being the only one of its kind’. So ‘Why Sotogrande?’……..because it IS unique as the largest gated residential Mediterranean resort with by far the best amenities in year round sunshine. Stretching back from and along kilometers of beach through 5000 acres, Sotogrande provides a perfect family environment with nature and sport being the key elements. On the waterfront, there is one of the prettiest marinas in Spain with waterways weaving between colourful apartment buildings where restaurants and shops also provide a relaxed and convivial atmosphere.
We are seeing very serious investment by Sotogrande, S.A. and should count ourselves lucky that Sotogrande finally has an owner who has the vision and financial capacity to take the resort to new and exciting levels. For years there has been nowhere to match it in Spain but now we are looking at Sotogrande as a development which we will finally be ranked among the very best in the world. We must all market Sotogrande as individuals, businesses and as a community: we must support everything that is being done and encourage our friends to buy in this unique destination. With the feelings that I have which are expressed at the beginning of this blog and all the investment and highest level construction I see around me, I firmly believe we are about to enter the Golden Age of Sotogrande.
