The gardens of Faustino Gran, in the Minorcan port town of Ciutadella, smelled of jasmine; the stars were visible overhead. “The island is beautiful, but it was the humility and kindness of the Minorcans that made me fall in love with this island,” says hotelier Laurent Morel Ruymen. “There’s a solidarity and a sense of community that makes it one of the happiest and healthiest societies in the world.”
Morel Ruymen, the founder of Mare e Terra hotels, is not the only Frenchman who thinks so, either. He’s among a small, trendsetting tribe of French hoteliers who are turning the wildest and the quietest of the Balearic Islands into one of the most stylish destinations in the Mediterranean.
