Luxury Design Villa with Infinity pool in Monte Mayor, Benahavis, Marbella (Spain)

Some homes meet a need, while others express a way of being in the world. This contemporary villa in Monte Mayor clearly belongs to the latter category. Conceived as an architectural retreat in the heart of nature, it combines clean lines, extraordinary natural light, absolute privacy, and an uninterrupted connection with the landscape. Located in Monte Mayor, one of the most exclusive private communities in Benahavís, just 15 minutes from the beach and about 20 minutes from Marbella’s town center, this property offers the rare balance of seclusion, sophistication, and connection to the international lifestyle of the Costa del Sol. Set on a 2,750 m² lot, with 835.32 m² built, an infinity pool, a 600 m² walkable garden, a spa with indoor pool, a privileged setting within a protected environment, and the optional possibility of incorporating up to 6 bedrooms (originally conceived with 4 bedrooms).

This newly built villa is especially designed for buyers who are not simply looking for square footage, but for a very specific residential experience: couples or families with older children, international residents wishing to settle temporarily or permanently in southern Spain, and buyers who value design, privacy, light, well-being, and the ability to entertain guests in the utmost comfort. It is a home for those who appreciate luxury and also understand premium living as space, calm, well-executed architecture, and quality time. A place to enjoy as a couple, share with friends, or turn into an exceptional base from which to explore Marbella, Benahavís, and the Costa del Sol as a whole. 

What captivates first is the way it rests on the land. The house does not compete with the landscape: it frames it. Its south-facing orientation, expansive glass walls, cantilevers, and double-height spaces make natural light one of the project’s true materials. Throughout the day, the home changes with the sun; in the morning it feels clean, open, and serene, while at sunset it takes on a warm, almost cinematic dimension that further enhances its unique character, achieving precisely that: contemporary yet emotional architecture, bold yet calm, designed to open onto the valley and extend life outdoors, a true luxury on the Costa del Sol. 

Architecture Open to the Landscape

From the outside, the villa projects a highly refined and elegant image, with a horizontal composition that enhances the sense of openness and a noble material palette that reinforces its presence without excess. The ventilated Moca limestone facade, minimalist-profile glazing, and the continuity of ceilings and flooring underscore the idea of serene, timeless architecture that is deeply Mediterranean in the way it interacts with light. The result is a home that impresses, but above all captivates through its balance. 

The arrival already hints at the level of the project. The entrance unfolds through a carefully choreographed sequence, with integrated landscaping and an immediate sense of visual openness, featuring a landscaped access with valley views, space for three courtesy vehicles, and a garage for three additional cars, along with a panoramic elevator that comfortably connects all floors. That combination of functionality and comfort is especially valuable in a home of this caliber. 

Main Floor: Light, Height, and Indoor-Outdoor Continuity

The main floor is, without a doubt, the social heart of the home and the space that best sums up its personality. The large open-plan living, dining, and kitchen area, approximately 76.72 m², is arranged beneath a spectacular 6-meter-high ceiling and opens fully onto the porch, terrace, and pool. Here, the architecture works to expand the feeling of freedom: the double height amplifies the entry of light, floor-to-ceiling windows make the valley part of the décor, and the visual continuity with the outdoors allows the entire day area to be experienced as a grand viewpoint from which to enjoy life. 

Entrance Hall

The hall does more than distribute; it introduces the home with a carefully orchestrated sense of arrival. Generously proportioned, it functions as a first transitional space between the exterior architecture and the interior experience.

The presence of an indoor garden beside the staircase brings freshness, texture, and an immediate sense of calm upon entering the home.

It is an entrance that does not seek to impress in an obvious way, but rather to create a sense of sophisticated serenity, typical of truly premium homes. 

Main Living Room

The living room is conceived as an open, elegant, and exceptionally bright space, oriented toward the views and slow enjoyment. The large glass wall projects it toward the terrace and the sheet of water, while soft tones, the warmth of wood, and the linear fireplace add depth and visual comfort.

It is a living room designed equally for an intimate conversation at sunset or for larger gatherings, always with the landscape as the backdrop.

The feeling is not that of being “inside” a home, but of inhabiting a platform suspended above nature.

Dining Area

The dining area occupies a prominent position within the grand day space and benefits from a spectacular height that multiplies the sense of spaciousness.

The large-format table, sculptural suspended lighting, and the direct connection with the kitchen and terrace allow this space to function flawlessly both in daily life and at dinner parties. It is a space for entertaining, yes, but also for living together; a bright, highly architectural dining area where light and views elevate every everyday moment.

Indoor Kitchen

The kitchen responds to a contemporary, precise, and highly refined aesthetic. The large central island in a stone-look finish, the clean-lined wood cabinetry, and the wide horizontal window that frames the mountains make this room especially appealing.

It features Cosentino Dekton Rem Natural countertops and island, high-end cabinetry, and integrated Siemens StudioLine and Gaggenau appliances, in addition to a concealed breakfast station with LED lighting. Beyond the equipment itself, what matters most here is that the kitchen is not treated as a secondary space: it is part of the home’s lifestyle and fully participates in the light, the views, and the conversation. 

Study or Home Office

The main floor also includes a study of approximately 15.23 m², a particularly appealing room for the type of buyer this property is likely to attract.

It can function as a private office, library, creative room, remote work space, or guest overflow room, depending on needs. In a home geared toward an international client, this flexibility is a real asset: it allows rest and productivity to coexist without sacrificing the elegance of the whole. 

Powder Room and Circulation

The powder room, the stair core, and the panoramic elevator are resolved with the same level of care as the main living spaces, something that can be seen both in the finishes and in the continuity of the interior language.

These are not secondary spaces in the usual sense: they also take part in the home’s identity, with clean surfaces, integrated lighting, and a constant sense of order, spaciousness, and quality.

Main Exterior: A Grand Open-Air Living Room

The outdoor area on the main floor has an extraordinary presence and serves as a true extension of the interior. The expansive 146.95 m² porch allows for different lounge, relaxation, outdoor dining, and contemplation settings, with complete fluidity between the kitchen, living room, and terrace. The scale of this outdoor platform is one of the home’s great luxuries: it offers more than enough space to truly live outdoors in real comfort, without limitations. 

Main Terrace

The main terrace is one of those outdoor spaces that defines a property. Open to the valley, sheltered by the large cantilever, and bathed in southern light, it conveys a sense of calm that is hard to replicate in any other setting.

Here, the furniture is arranged naturally, allowing the true focus to remain on the horizon, the silence, and the continuity of the landscape. It is a space designed for long breakfasts, leisurely lunches, reading, conversation, or simply contemplating the breathtaking views over the Mediterranean, the African coastline, and Gibraltar, as the community sits more than 500 m above sea level, providing an incomparable setting at any time of day.

Infinity Pool and Fire Pit Lounge

The three-sided infinity pool, approximately 64.52 m², is probably the villa’s most iconic image. More than just a pool, it functions as a liquid platform that visually extends the home toward the mountains and the sky.

Integrated within it is a lounge area with an optional fire pit, one of the home’s most emotional and memorable places, designed to turn sunset into a daily experience. This central feature has been conceived as the best setting from which to enjoy the views and the sunset. In the images, it is also clear how this sheet of water brings reflections depending on the time of day, depth, and an immediate sense of exclusivity. 

Outdoor Kitchen and Open-Air Dining

The relationship between the indoor kitchen and outdoor living is reinforced by the optional possibility of incorporating an outdoor kitchen and a spacious alfresco dining area. The project is prepared for that lifestyle and allows an outdoor kitchen and the fire pit to be incorporated from the outset among the optional extras. This makes it possible to present this area as a highly customizable space for anyone wishing to further enhance the home’s entertaining and hospitality experience. 

Upper Floor: The Night Area as a Private Retreat

The upper floor has been conceived as a clearly more intimate level, reserved for rest and disconnection. It brings together four en-suite bedrooms connected by a corridor and a walkway, with two of them opening onto a spacious terrace facing the pool and the valley.

Access via the panoramic elevator reinforces the feeling of entering a private wing, elevated above the landscape and elegantly separated from the social life of the main floor. The elevator connects all 3 levels, from the entrance on the lower floor, providing maximum accessibility and comfort.

Landing and Walkway

The landing on the upper floor has an almost theatrical quality. The double height of the living room is powerfully perceived from here, and circulation is resolved as a clean transition between light, architecture, and landscape.

It is not simply a hallway, but a kind of private gallery from which the character of the home is best understood: open, bright, contemporary, and extraordinarily well connected visually.

Primary Bedroom

The primary suite is one of the most exclusive spaces in the entire property. With approximately 30.94 m² for the bedroom itself, an independent walk-in closet, en-suite bathroom, and access to a private terrace, it has been designed as a true private-hotel master suite.

The presence of the freestanding tub beside the large glass window, the bedroom oriented toward the views, and the possibility of waking up and falling asleep with the valley as your backdrop turn this room into a first-class residential experience. More than just a bedroom, it is a place to slow down, contemplate, and inhabit luxury through calm. 

Walk-In Closet in the Primary Suite

The walk-in closet extends the idea of a complete suite. It is designed with floor-to-ceiling millwork, integrated lighting, and a very clean aesthetic consistent with the rest of the home.

It brings functionality, capacity, and order, while also reinforcing the premium residential character of the primary suite, which goes beyond visual beauty and performs extremely well for demanding everyday use.

Primary Bathroom

The primary bathroom combines nature-inspired materials, visual spaciousness, and a highly refined language. Standout features include handcrafted natural stone sinks, built-in thermostatic brushed gold fixtures, and the freestanding tub in the primary bedroom, all elements that contribute to a serene, elegant, and tactile atmosphere.

The light, warm tones, and the texture of the surfaces turn this bathroom into a wellness space rather than a purely functional room. 

Secondary Bedrooms

The three additional bedrooms maintain a premium level of privacy, size, and quality. One of them opens onto the large 53.74 m² terrace above the valley and the pool, which it shares with the primary bedroom, while all of them enjoy en-suite bathrooms and an elegant, carefully considered aesthetic. These are bedrooms designed for older children, guests, or family members who value independence and comfort. The success of the project lies in the fact that, although secondary, they are not perceived as leftover rooms, but as true guest suites within a luxury home. 

Upper Floor Terrace

The large upper terrace adds a very special dimension to the night area. It is a more intimate outdoor space than the main terrace, ideal for a private pause, reading, a drink at sunset, or simply enjoying the silence and the visual openness. In the primary suite, this connection to the outdoors further reinforces the feeling of a bedroom open to the horizon.

Lower Ground Floor: Wellness, Leisure, and Personalization

The lower floor offers tremendous potential. It totals approximately 253.48 m² built and includes a 63.56 m² garage for three vehicles, an access area, technical rooms, and a 66.43 m² indoor spa pool. In addition, there is a large multipurpose area that can be envisioned as a customizable leisure space, with 66.33 m² ready to adapt to the owner’s lifestyle. 

Indoor Pool (Included)

The indoor pool brings a wellness dimension to the home that is highly unusual even within the premium segment.

This area is equipped with natural Bali stone, an independent climate-control system, bromine disinfection, mechanical double-flow ventilation with heat recovery, and an environment conceived to prevent odors and control humidity. Truly, this space is an authentic private wellness sanctuary: a place to maintain a relaxation and self-care routine year-round, regardless of the weather, and with an exceptional level of privacy. 

Optionally, this area can be requested with wood-clad ceilings and walls, a full spa or gym in the adjoining room, and a roll-up cover for the indoor pool.

The other major room on this level, with nearly 70 m², is a blank canvas that can be optionally configured according to the buyer’s needs, ranging from an additional bedroom for staff or guests to other uses more geared toward leisure, such as:

Gym, Yoga, or Wellness Studio (Optional)

One option for personalizing this large space is as a gym, yoga studio, or fitness area: a spacious, light-filled room, visually very clean, and perfectly suited to a private training routine.

For a buyer who enjoys working out daily and is accustomed to high-end hotels and residences with private fitness rooms, this possibility integrates perfectly into everyday life. 

Movie Theater or Family Room (Optional)

Another option this space can accommodate is a movie theater, family room, or private lounge. That flexibility allows the house to be adapted to a more social, more family-oriented, or more hedonistic lifestyle, depending on your needs.

Wine Cellar and Tasting Room (Optional)

The project also allows for the addition of a wine cellar and tasting room. In a villa of this caliber, these types of spaces add a great deal of personality and encourage a slower, more social, and more experiential way of living. 

Garage and Technical Areas

The garage, with space for three cars, is integrated discreetly and functionally into the overall design, with a dark finish and LED lighting, in keeping with the project’s refined character. Next to the garage is the elevator, providing direct access to the rest of the home’s floors. On the exterior, it is possible to park additional vehicles, perfect for guests and larger families.

Beneath the pool, there is a restroom serving the pool/terrace area without needing to enter the home. This space also houses the technical room, enabling full control of the home’s systems with the level of infrastructure required by a property of this category. 

Quality Specifications: Technical Elegance and Quiet Comfort

One of the great strengths of this designer villa is that its quality does not stop at what is visible. It incorporates highly valuable elements both aesthetically and functionally:

• Ventilated Moca limestone facade
• Large-format porcelain flooring inspired by natural stone
• Terrace exterior carpentry consists of STRUGAL INFINITY French-opening doors with thermal break and solar control
• The remaining doors and windows are also aluminum, with tilt-and-turn or sliding opening systems depending on their location within the home and the design
• Home-automated climate control through radiant heating and cooling floors in common areas and bedrooms, supported by aerothermal technology for both air conditioning and heating
• Integrated LED lighting, fully home-automated and dimmable throughout the house to adapt the lighting completely to your taste
• Hidden Wi-Fi mesh system
• In the bathrooms, standout features include: the freestanding tub in the primary bedroom, built-in brushed gold thermostatic faucets, rain-style showerheads, floating shower trays, natural stone sinks, etc.
• Eco-heated pools with RGB LED lighting and bromine disinfection systems, eliminating odors
• etc.

All of this translates into a highly sophisticated, almost silent sense of comfort, one the buyer perceives even if they do not always verbalize it. 

Setting: True Privacy in One of the Most Exclusive Areas of the Costa del Sol

Monte Mayor, in Benahavís, is one of those enclaves the premium market values precisely for its discretion. It is a private community with 24-hour security, set in a protected valley of the Serranía de Ronda, surrounded by forests, walking trails, and native nature. The home is bordered by non-buildable land, which guarantees the preservation of its unique views and privacy.

Also noteworthy is its position within the so-called Golden Triangle of Marbella-Estepona-Benahavís, its proximity to numerous prestigious golf courses, international schools, beach clubs, and excellent restaurants, and its convenient connection to the airports of Málaga and Gibraltar. This provides a feeling of retreat and privacy without giving up connectivity, dining, sports, or Marbella’s international social life. Know more about Monte Mayor & Benahavís in our blog.

A One-of-a-Kind Property

Overall, this villa represents a contemporary form of luxury: it does not seek ostentation, but perfect integration with its surroundings. A home that does not need excess to feel extraordinary. Its value lies in the light that pours in, the silence that surrounds it, the scale of its spaces, its relationship with the landscape, and the possibility of building a very free and comfortable life here in an incomparable setting. Designed for someone seeking a contemporary residence of the highest caliber near Marbella and with every comfort you could need. Call us to discover and visit what could be your next home, where you can live your dreams.

Note:

There are additional options that may increase the price of the property; please contact us for full details.

The displayed price does not include 10% VAT (+€415,000). Total price including VAT: €4,565,000

Estimated key handover: spring/summer 2026

The images shown are renderings