travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Marques de Riscal, a Luxury Coll

Hotel Marques de Riscal, a Luxury Coll travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Situated in a historic Basque village, equidistant from Bilbao and Pamplona (less than an hour's drive), this strikingly modern Marriott affiliate is popular with high-end travelers (especially Americans).

The architecture and much of the design of this hotel were at the hands of the architect behind Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, the legendary Frank Gehry—this is the only hotel he ever helped to design).

Gehry was hired to design the headquarters of Ma...