Inside the luxe new Gran Marbella Resort & Beach Club

Photo Credit: Iconic HotelsSlow luxury, a beach club imported from Monaco, Champneys going continental, and a corner of the Costa del Sol that somehow nobody wrecked yet. Consider your itinerary revised.

There’s a version of Marbella that lives in the cultural memory as a kind of magnificent joke — gold-plated everything, aggressively fake tans, and a level of excess that peaked somewhere around 2006 and never fully recovered. That Marbella — all velvet ropes and…