It is home to a monastery that since the 19th century has housed most eminent guests, most famously composer Frederic Chopin and French writer and pre-feminist George Sand (who lived a passionate affair with the Polish composer there and wrote her acclaimed novel "A Winter in Majorca"). Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario cured his alcoholism at the monastery, and Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges lived in the town with his family.
Since then, film legend Michael Douglas and his wife, academy-award winner Catherine Zeta Jones have become Valldemossas most prominent visitors. Douglas' home, a castle once owned by the local mistress of an Austrian Archduke, has been featured in Architectural Digest and is most famous for not having a downstairs bathroom.