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The 2026 hot list: the 11 best new hotels in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain

The Mediterranean • Stay • The 2026 hot list: the 11 best new hotels in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Track 2026 hotel openings across France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. This is the live list, updated as soft openings slide and grand reveals get pushed. It is organised month by month and sticks to what is actually debuting, from under-the-radar inns to high-design hotels with serious hype.

Top photography courtesy of Zannier Île de Bendor

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Hotel Danieli

Venice, Italy

Hotel Danieli has never pretended to be discreet. It sits openly on the Riva degli Schiavoni, facing the lagoon with the confidence of a building that knows it has seen more Venetian history than most museums. What makes it singular is not polish, but accumulation. Three palazzi from different centuries stitched together by bridges and staircases, with no attempt to smooth the seams. You move from the 14th-century Palazzo Dandolo into later additions almost without noticing, except for a sudden change in ceiling height, light or temperature. Public spaces feel ceremonial, almost excessive, while some rooms retain an idiosyncratic, old-world awkwardness that newer luxury hotels edit out. Arrival by boat still matters here. Under Four Seasons management from 2026, the interest lies in restraint: preserving Danieli’s irregularity, theatrical scale and unapologetic historic weight, rather than sanding it down into something polite.

Hotel Danieli

Riva degli Schiavoni, 4196,
Venice
Italy

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Photography courtesy of Hotel Danieli

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Experimental Roma

Rome, Italy

Experimental Roma is Experimental Group’s Rome address in the Ludovisi district, close to Via Veneto and the Swiss Institute. The hotel is built in a converted former office building with 82 rooms and suites. Rodolphe Parente handled the architecture and interiors. A glass-roof restaurant anchors the ground floor. The Experimental Cocktail Club Roma bar does the group’s calling card: tight classics and high tempo. Upstairs, a rooftop terrace adds a suspended pool and a reason to come back before dinner.

Experimental Roma

Via Ludovisi, 46
Rome
Italy

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Photography courtesy of Giulio Ghirardi and Experimental Roma

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Gran Hotel Margalida

Mallorca, Spain

Gran Hotel Margalida is Annua Signature’s 29-room west-coast Mallorca address in Banyalbufar, where the Serra de Tramuntana cliffs meet terraced Malvasía vineyards. Spanish architect Álvaro Onieva and interior designer Virginia Nieto reworked a historic building with local stone, timber and natural textures, tied together by a custom sun-washed yellow. Every room faces the sea and is shaped for the island’s shifting light. Wellness is fully integrated: treatment rooms, advanced therapies, a movement studio with Technogym and a Pilates Reformer, plus an outdoor yoga deck towards the Mediterranean. Food splits three ways: a sea-view dining room for modern Mallorcan cooking, a French-leaning oyster and raw bar and a poolside lounge outside.

Gran Hotel Margalida

Carrer Major, 49
Banyalbufar
Balearic Islands
Spain

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Photography courtesy of Gran Hotel Margalida

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Four Seasons Resort Mykonos

Mykonos, Greece

Perched above Kalo Livadi Bay on Mykonos’ quieter southeastern edge, Four Seasons Resort Mykonos takes a measured stance on an island better known for excess. Spread across a large sweep of coastline that runs from sand to cliff, the resort is designed to feel embedded rather than imposed, with most rooms, suites and villas opening to long Aegean views. The architecture follows Cycladic traditions by Greek architect Nicos Valsamakis, all whitewashed volumes and stepped courtyards, while interiors by Wimberly Interiors keep things restrained and tactile. Restaurants by Rockwell Group reference local kafeneio culture alongside relaxed poolside dining.

Four Seasons Resort Mykonos

Mykonos
Greece

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Photography courtesy of Four Seasons Resort Mykonos

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Zannier Île de Bendor

Île de Bendor, France

Once a playground for artists, divers and Riviera eccentrics (Salvador Dalí drank here, Joséphine Baker danced here and Yuri Gagarin dropped by), Île de Bendor has always been more idea than island. Bought in 1950 by pastis magnate Paul Ricard, it became a curious cultural experiment: artist studios instead of villas, pétanque instead of pretence and France’s first scuba diving centre carved into its rocky edge. After five years behind hoardings, the seven-hectare island reopens as Zannier Île de Bendor, with 93 rooms spread across three distinct zones and a village rhythm rebuilt from the ground up. Concrete is gone, trees are back and pastis returns to the square. Eight places to eat, a serious spa, ateliers for artists and a short boat ride from Bandol.

Zannier Île de Bendor

Île de Bendor
Bandol
France

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Photography courtesy of Zannier Île de Bendor

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Na Praia

Comporta, Portugal

Na Praia is a 113-key independent hotel project on a peninsula just beyond Comporta, set between the Atlantic and a protected nature reserve. The plan spans 340 hectares of preserved land and opens onto two kilometres of white sand, with guest cars parked at the edge of the site so the centre stays quiet. Founder José António Uva, the eighth-generation steward behind São Lourenço do Barrocal, cut the approved construction footprint by 80% after ecosystem research and put dune protection first. Architecture is led by Studio KO with landscape by Doxiadis+ and development by Estúdio Lisboa. Accommodation is split into 42 rooms, 3 suites, 63 houses and 5 villas, some with private pools. Five restaurants, a dune-set spa and resident-biologist walks keep the place rooted in the terrain.

Na Praia

Comporta
Portugal

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Photography courtesy of Na Praia

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Villa San Michele

Florence, Italy

High above Florence, where the city feels like a painted backdrop, Villa San Michele has always played by its own rules. Built as a 15th-century Franciscan monastery in Fiesole, the property reopens in 2026 after an 18-month renovation that favours clarity over gloss. There are just 39 rooms and suites, reshaped by Florence-based Luigi Fragola Architects using stone, terracotta and antique fragments that let the building speak. Three new signature suites take centre stage, including Limonaia in the former orangery and The Grand Tour, once home to Napoleon Bonaparte. A first-ever Guerlain spa slips into the hillside.

Villa San Michele

Via Doccia 4
Fiesole
Italy

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Photography courtesy of François Halard and Villa San Michele

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Andaz Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon doesn’t need another polite hotel and Andaz Lisbon understands that. Opening on Rua do Comércio, in the thick of Baixa’s tourist current and civic history, it plants 170 rooms and suites directly into the city’s daily flow. Interiors by Studio Urquiola avoid pastiche, translating azulejos, calçada paving and Atlantic light into a contemporary register. Upstairs, a rooftop restaurant and terrace pull focus toward Lusitanian flavours, cocktails and live music rather than sunset selfies alone. Downstairs, Andaz Lounge borrows from Lisbon’s kiosk culture, blurring hotel and hangout. Art by local and international names runs throughout, positioning the building as a participant in the city’s cultural conversation.

Andaz Lisbon

R. do Comércio 132
Lisbon
Portugal

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Photography courtesy of Andaz Lisbon

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The Lake Como Edition

Cadenabbia, Italy

Set on Lake Como’s western shore, The Lake Como Edition arrives in March 2026 with a confidence that feels deliberately restrained. Housed in a restored 19th-century palazzo, the hotel resists nostalgia in favour of clarity: original arches and vaulted volumes are kept intact, then sharpened by Neri & Hu’s pared-back modernism. This is Edition at its most architectural. A floating pool edges out onto the lake. Interiors lean on stone, terrazzo and shadow rather than ornament. Food matters here too. Three-Michelin-starred chef Mauro Colagreco makes his first move on Italian soil, shaping four dining spaces rooted in nature rather than spectacle. The Longevity Spa signals an interesting shift for Como: less glamour, more intent.

The Lake Como Edition

Via Regina 41
Griante Cadenabbia
Italy

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Photography courtesy of The Lake Como Edition

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Les Sources de Vougeot

Vougeot, France

In Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits, Les Sources de Vougeot sits inside Château de Gilly, near the Clos de Vougeot vineyards. Entrepreneurs Alice and Jérôme Tourbier conceived the address, working with architecture studio A.S.L. to reinterpret a former residence of the Abbots of Cîteaux, dating to the 16th century. The approach keeps the historical bones visible, then layers in contemporary touches rather than period imitation. Guest rooms lean soft and domestic, with floral wallpapers in some and delicate colour tones in others. The effect is calm, detailed and rooted in place, built for wine-country days and slow evenings. It suits tastings, cellar visits and starts on the Route des Grands Crus.

Les Sources de Vougeot

Gilly-les-Cîteaux
Vougeot
France

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Photography courtesy of Les Sources de Vougeot

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L’Aventure

Paris, France

In Paris’s 16th arrondissement near the Arc de Triomphe, L’Aventure is a Beaumarly mash-up of five-star hotel, restaurant and private club, designed to keep you in the building all night. Public spaces by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio riff on Victor Hugo’s The Legend of the Ages, with Art Deco mood, polished marble, velvet and mythological mosaics, plus digital scenography and lighting by Isometrix. Upstairs, the 15-room hotel is Vincent Darré’s playground, with hand-painted surrealist frescoes and scavenged furniture that swings between Haussmannian and 1970s.

L’Aventure

4 Av. Victor Hugo
Paris
France

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Photography courtesy of Beaumarly and L’Aventure