• It was where Princess Di sought sanctuary when her marriage collapsed, but here’s hoping that your remit will be romance or ‘R and R’, rather than refuge from the hounding press.
   
• From a filmic setting, Richard Branson has transformed La Residencia into a world-class hotel, combining an epitome of luxury and style with a characterful, local charm. 

• Once a 16th century farmhouse, clinging to the spectacular foothills of the Sierra Tramuntana, La Residencia gazes over the famous artists’ village of Deia, across tumbling olive terraces and flame-like cypress trees and onto the quivering, Quink-blue horizon of the sea.
   
• Its ancient olive press is now El Olivo, one of the finest restaurants in Spain where you will dine for three of your nights here!; its maze of honey-coloured stone courtyards, arches and passageways access a wealth of impeccably maintained facilities, and its ancient walls are bedecked by a covetable collection of local, contemporary art.

• Where better to flop after a hard day of Guinot pampering in the spa or floating in one of three pools than on an antique, petal-strewn Mallorcan four-poster bed? There are also tennis courts, a personal trainer and gym for the more masochistically inclined amongst you.

• Let’s face it, if it’s good enough for Michael Douglas, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Pierce Brosnan and poet Robert Graves,  – all of whom made homes in this exclusive part of Mallorca - it’s almost good enough for you.

So get your bids in now!