SON MARROIG

Son Marroig stands on the coast road between Valldemossa and Deià, in the Serra de Tramuntana, the mountain range on Mallorca's north-west coast that UNESCO lists as a World Heritage cultural landscape. It began as a fortified farmhouse, with a 15th-century tower built as a lookout against pirates, before Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria bought it and made Mallorca his home for four decades.

Today it is a private house museum and a protected historic site. From the terrace you look out to Sa Foradada, a rocky peninsula with a great natural window eroded right through it, and down in the garden is the round Carrara marble temple, its dome resting on eight Ionic columns.

The venue's own advice is to build the day around sunset, when the low evening sun warms the nearby cliffs and lights up the whole estate. The spaces it highlights are the garden, home to the marble temple, and the wide terraces looking out to sea.

The venue's own Venue Hub answers put weddings at up to 150 guests. Beyond that, little is published, so ask the team where dinner is served, and about catering, music, the curfew and whether a legal ceremony is possible or you should marry at home first. The arched upper terrace of the museum closes from October to April, so check which spaces you can use on your date.

There are no bedrooms at Son Marroig. Guests base themselves in Deià or Valldemossa, both on the same coast road, and you should ask the team which hotels and villas they suggest for your group.

The days around the wedding fill easily. The Archduke's own signed path drops to the Sa Foradada peninsula, about 1 hour 50 minutes there and back, past old olive trees and stone viewpoints. The museum opens Monday to Saturday, and from May to September the Deià International Music Festival holds chamber concerts here. In Deià, Robert Graves's house, Ca n'Alluny, is now a museum. Ask the team about transfer times from Palma airport.