Its championship course creates a green carpet that meanders through the homes and blends in with the beautiful natural surroundings, while the stylish clubhouse offers a refined meeting point, with tastefully appointed lounge areas, bar and dining, as well as a terrace with lovely views. There is also, swimming pool and various restaurants. The San Roque Club has recently been sold to new owners who have embarked on an ambitions redesign and full reconditioning of the Old course and club house faculties. There are also further plans to build and operate a Five Star GL Hotel.

The stylish property, which was formerly the holiday home of the Domecq sherry family, is one of the most evocative clubhouses in Spain, and along with the nearby Valderrama and the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande its excellent courses form the Golden Triangle of Golf in the area. The estate, which forms a gated community of attractive apartments and villas, covers an area of 340 acres of undulating greenery dotted with pine groves and cork oaks.

A privileged spot to own property
Restaurants, shops and an equestrian centre are on your doorstep, with all the amenities of Sotogrande just a few minutes away. Nearby are Gibraltar, Casares, Estepona, Marbella and Puerto Banús, all within a half-hour range.

We are proud to offer some truly beautiful properties for sale in San Roque, including
a choice of private villas in different sizes and styles, plots for building for your own dream home, and a choice of both newly-built, off-plan apartments and penthouses, and attractive Mediterranean style apartments with first-class amenities. Contact Holmes Sotogrande for the finest selection of
San Roque property for sale.

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This up-market urbanisation is heaven for golf enthusiasts who come to enjoy world-class playing facilities, combined with Sotogrande’s exclusive lifestyle, marina, beautiful beaches and proximity to Gibraltar and its international airport.

Many of the luxury villas for sale in the San Roque Club border the prestigious 18-hole San Roque Club greens, enjoying a prime position overlooking the 17^th hole.

Properties at the San Roque Club appeal to those looking for the greatest of comfort, mixed with a touch of authentic Andalucía. The spectacular villas and apartments wonderfully offset San Roque Club’s elite golfing atmosphere. They attract buyers from the international jet set wanting golf on the doorstep; horse riding at the on-site equestrian centre; sailing upon the Straits of Gibraltar and beyond, while also lapping up the joys of their exquisite surroundings.

As for the club, the Old Course exceeds most expectations, offering two top-class championship layouts as well as the European Tour’s qualifying school. It often welcomes top world players who come to use its outstanding facilities prior to major tournaments. Meanwhile, the New Course puts up equally challenging golfing conditions in a slightly different setting and style.

Whether you are living in, visiting or simply playing a round at the San Roque Club, you will no doubt marvel at the backdrop of stunning hills and ancient cork oaks spread across some 340 acres of wonderfully peaceful countryside.

Then there are the truly magnificent San Roque Club House buildings to enjoy, which were formerly the home of the Domecq family, famed for their sherry producing. Here you can have drinks at the bar, dinner at one of four restaurants, including Kamakura, the club’s excellent Japanese restaurant, and revel in having suitably refined surroundings and services right on your doorstep.

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Though situated roughly midway between Sotogrande and the actual town of San Roque, the San Roque resort is generally regarded as an extended part of Sotogrande. Where the town is an ancient maze of narrow streets and sleepy squares that can trace its origins over 2,500 years back to the Phoenicians, modern day San Roque Club is no more than a few decades old.

While it does have a small ‘village style’ congregation of holiday chalets adjoining the luxurious Suites at San Roque Club, the San Roque Club itself is a study in luxurious homes fronting expansive fairways amid views of countryside and sea. Those who stay in this elegant modern-rustic hotel almost inevitably share a love of golf with those who have chosen to live or own a part time property here.

Golf may be the most obvious attraction, but with a luxury club house, 4 restaurants, football academies, the beaches of private coves and the pleasures of nearby Sotogrande on a silver plate, San Roque has more strings to its bow than just the one. More of a holiday resort to Sotogrande’s more settled residential areas, this is an area that attracts many owners of holiday homes, who come here with the family in summer and to play golf during the remaining months.

The offer of real estate varies from luxurious apartments and townhouses to grand villas in a variety of styles and sizes, though views of lush greens and the blue Mediterranean are very much the thing to aspire to when looking for a home here.

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Beyond this oasis of privilege and elegance lies the protected nature of the Parque Natural los Alcornocales, a domain covering no less than 1,677 km2 of wooded highland and valleys. It is a region of untouched Andalusian flora and fauna that includes extensive tracts of olive trees, Mediterranean heath and the ‘alcornocales’ cork oak for which the reserve has been named. A paradise for controlled hunting, fishing and the gathering of wild mushrooms and berries, this pristine landscape is also home to storks, vultures, eagles, otters, deer and even small colonies of seldom-seen wolves and lynx.

Situated at the heart of the park is the little town of Castellar de la Frontera. As if living in the middle of a natural wonderland is not enough, Castellar is also unique on a number of other counts, including the fact that it is made up of two distinct settlements. Although human settlement in this area can be traced right back to the Neanderthals, it is now sparse enough to include just a few settlements within a rural world right on the doorstep of Sotogrande and the coast. As a result, Castellar feels light years removed from the bustle of the coast, though it is barely 20 minutes away.

Like many other towns and villages across Southern Spain the historical settlement is a picturesque white village tucked right up on a rocky outcrop overlooking the surrounding countryside and the beautiful manmade lake known as the Embalse del Guadarranque. Here people used to live in relative safety from the bandits and Barbary corsairs that roamed land and sea alike, but when that threat faded and the emergence of the railways in the second half of the 19th century made movement easier new agrarian settlements began to be built on the level land of the valleys.

In contrast to the narrow, winding, tight-packed organic evolution of the mountain villages, the new ones were laid out according to the planned grid structure inherited from the Enlightenment. While it may not be to everyone’s taste, this style can produce charming little towns with well laid-out streets, parks and squares, and Castellar is one of the prettiest of all. When the cork company started building the new town the old settlement gradually emptied out, until by the late sixties it had almost become entirely depopulated and was later replaced by a rapidly growing colony of hippies.

Many have since moved on, their places taken by local and foreign artists and artisans, giving Castellar de la Frontera a unique look and feel that draws large numbers of visitors – especially those with an ‘alternative’ outlook – to its rustic hotels and renovated rental accommodation. Once here, they enjoy truly spectacular 360-degree views of large parts of the park and the coastal area, all the way to Estepona and Marbella in the far distance. On a clear day North Africa is also visible, though increasingly the newer town has also become a popular spot to visit, with several country hotels to cater to visitors who come to hike, bird-watch or simply relax in a country setting.

The short distance from the coast makes it a perfect weekend getaway, allowing you to hit the beaches but return to the charm and sanity of a pretty village made up of tree-lined streets with cottages and leafy squares where it is a pleasure to have a drink or meal and soak in the Spanish atmosphere. The locals serve typical Andalusian country fare, but if you want to treat yourself to a surprisingly refined experience at village prices then A Boca 2 Tapas is a true revelation, offering a standard of haute cuisine tapas and meals that you would simply not expect to find here. But then you realise that Sotogrande is a short drive away, making this the perfect spot for lunchtime in the country, and it all comes together.

Like the Zoo de Castellar, the restaurant is on the road coming into Castellar from Sotogrande, so easy to find. The zoo, by the way, is another thing you may not expect to find here, but over the past decade or so it has become a much-visited institution popular with foreign and Andalusian visitors alike. Small but well-facilitated, it combines conservationist work with a recreation side that allows you to view – and in some cases engage with – animals in a natural environment. Stocked with the intercepted victims of the black market trade in endangered animal species, the collection is eclectic but a real delight to see, rounding off a village whose many surprises and pleasures make it well worth coming back to.

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