Hotel Palacio Ico

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The former home of Swiss artist Heidi Bucher, this beauty of a 17th-century palace has been skilfully reincarnated as a stylish nine-room boutique hotel strung around a typical cactus-dotted patio with an original aljibe (cistern). Rooms and suites are styled with design flair, combining stone walls, marble floors and mulberry-wood ceilings with rain showers, sleek four-posters and soothing tones.

Breakfast (€10) is in the stylish, wood-beamed contemporary-Canarian cafe-restaurant (dishes €7 to €13), and there are yoga mats and classes.

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