California in the Mediterranean: Welcome to Sotogrande, an elite tourist destination in southern Spain
Inspired by coastal California, Sotogrande was bred for the good life. Here’s where to sleep, golf, eat and take in the polo matches in Spain’s most glamorous seaside spotSOTOGRANDE LIES just 15 miles from Gibraltar, near the southernmost tip of Spain.
But driving past the bougainvillea hedges bordering sprawling villas, compulsively groomed golf courses and polo fields, you might easily mistake this coastal enclave for one in California. In this cultivated environment, Bentleys, yachts and other trappings of wealth have a habit of turning up, which was the whole idea when Sotogrande was born in the 1960s as the dream of one man, Joseph McMicking, born Jose Rafael McMicking y Ynchausti.
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