Almost every article about the Fernando Alonso house mentions a private karting circuit. The circuit in the photographs exists; it was designed with Alonso’s direct involvement, and some of its corners are copied from his favourite Formula One tracks. It is not at his home. It is part of the Fernando Alonso Museum and Circuit at Llanera in Asturias, a publicly funded complex that anyone can buy a ticket to visit.
His actual housing is far less documented, which is normal for a European sportsman. Spain, Switzerland and Monaco do not publish property transactions the way American counties do, so there are no confirmed purchase prices, no listings and no square footage. What can be established is the shape of it: a career that took his residency to Switzerland, brought him back to the city he was born in, and since 2022 has had him living in Monaco.
This guide covers each of those, the museum confusion, and where he lives now.
Fernando Alonso’s homes at a glance
| Property | Location | Key figures | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finca on the outskirts of the city | Oviedo, Asturias | Purchase reported at a little over €5 million; no registry record published | Kept; his hometown base |
| Apartment | Monaco | No figures published | Main residence since 2022 |
| Residences at Mont-sur-Rolle, then Lugano | Switzerland | No figures published | Former bases, mid-2000s to around 2011 |
| Apartment | Dubai | No figures published | Reported in regional press, not confirmed by records |
| Fernando Alonso Museum and Circuit | Llanera, Asturias | Publicly funded; opened 2015 | A visitor attraction, not his home |
Who is Fernando Alonso?
Fernando Alonso is a Spanish racing driver, born in Oviedo in Asturias in 1981. He won consecutive Formula One world championships in 2005 and 2006 with Renault, becoming at the time the sport’s youngest champion, and has since driven for McLaren, Ferrari, Alpine and Aston Martin. Outside Formula One, he has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice and the World Endurance Championship.
He did not come from money. His father, José Luis, was a mechanic at an explosives factory near Oviedo and an amateur karter who built the family’s first kart, and his mother, Ana, worked in a department store.
He is not married. His marriage to the singer Raquel del Rosario, of the band El Sueño de Morfeo, ran from 2006 until they separated in 2011, and his partner now is the journalist Melissa Jiménez. His Aston Martin salary is reported at around €30 million a year, and El Español put his assets at roughly €260 million in late 2025; both are press estimates rather than published accounts.
He has driven for Aston Martin since 2023. He once suggested 2026 would probably be his last season if the car performed well, but in July 2026 he said he had a contract for 2027 and would not be changing teams. As of late September 2026, he still had not committed to racing that year, telling reporters he would keep driving, “if it’s in Formula 1 or other categories, I don’t really know.” He remains closely identified with Asturias and is a visible supporter of his home-town football club, Real Oviedo.
The Swiss years
Alonso became a Swiss resident in the mid-2000s, at the point his earnings made the move worthwhile, and lived for a period at Mont-sur-Rolle in the canton of Vaud, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva.
Around 2010, when he joined Ferrari, he moved to Lugano in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino. The reason was practical rather than scenic: Lugano sits close to the Italian border and cut the journey to Ferrari’s base at Maranello considerably. He is also reported to have kept a residence there overlooking the lake.
Switzerland is a standard base for Formula One drivers, alongside Monaco, for reasons of tax treatment, privacy and proximity to European circuits. Alonso’s version of it was unusual only in that he did not stay.
The return to Oviedo
Around 2011, Alonso moved his base back to Spain, to Oviedo, the city he grew up in. The reason given consistently in coverage is family and friends rather than anything financial, which is notable given that the move ran against the usual direction of travel for a driver at his earnings level.
The property associated with him there is a large finca on the outskirts of the city. Spanish outlets including El Español and idealista report that he bought it during his marriage to Raquel del Rosario, for a little over five million euros, and that he has extended it since. The same outlets now value it at anywhere from ten to twenty million euros. None of these figures is tied to a registry entry or a sale, and a range that wide is itself a sign that nobody is working from a record, so they are best read as estimates.
Those reports also credit the finca with its own karting track and a golf course. That may be true, but none of them cite a source or publish verifiable images, and the description overlaps closely with the public complex covered below. It should be treated with caution until something firmer appears.
For more than a decade this was home. He was based in Asturias while driving for teams headquartered in Italy, France and England, which involved a great deal of travel that a Monaco or Silverstone base would have avoided.
The move to Monaco
In 2022, that changed. Alonso moved his main residence to Monaco, the same year he agreed to join Aston Martin, and Spanish coverage of the decision quotes him explaining that he missed the sea. After years inland in Switzerland and Asturias, Monaco gave him a coastline, short journeys to most European circuits, and the tax and privacy arrangements that have made it the most common address on the Formula One grid.
He lives there with Melissa Jiménez and her three children from a previous relationship. Their son, Leonard, was born in late March 2026, and Alonso delayed his arrival at the Japanese Grand Prix to be there. Photographs of the family published since have been taken in Monaco. The apartment itself has not been identified by any reliable source, and this article will not try to identify it.
The museum and circuit, and why it is not his house
The Fernando Alonso Museum and Circuit, formerly the Fernando Alonso Sports Complex, is at Llanera in Asturias, a short distance from Oviedo. The project was established in 2011 and opened to the public in 2015.
It was built with public funds as a regional initiative, not as a private facility, though Alonso was personally involved in designing much of it. He laid out the karting circuit himself, incorporating replicas of corners he particularly liked from Formula One tracks around the world. The museum occupies around 1,200 square metres, and Spain’s official tourism site describes the collection as more than 400 pieces, including all the cars he has raced in, along with his helmets, suits and boots. For anyone asking what he drives, this is where the racing cars are: on public display, not in a private garage.
This is the source of the persistent confusion. Articles describing a mansion with its own karting track, a museum of trophies and a collection of cars are describing the public complex and attaching it to his private house. The two are separate: one is a ticketed visitor attraction in Llanera, the other is a home whose details he has not made public.
Other reported properties
Alonso has been reported to own apartments in Dubai, including in a residential tower where other sportspeople have bought, and various lists credit him with property in England, sometimes specifically near Oxford.
These claims vary in quality. The Dubai apartments have been mentioned in regional press, which is reasonable if not conclusive, though the valuations attached to them in some English-language roundups have no basis. The England claims come from net-worth and motorsport aggregator lists with no records behind them, and should be treated as unverified. Given that his teams have been based in England for much of the past decade, a property there would be unsurprising, but unsurprising is not the same as documented.
Where does Fernando Alonso live now?
In Monaco, where he has had his main residence since 2022 and where he now lives with his partner and their son.
Oviedo is the other half of the answer. He still has the finca outside the city; he is regularly back there, including at Real Oviedo matches, and the museum and circuit that carry his name are a few kilometres away. For most of the 2010s, Asturias was his base; since 2022, it has been his hometown rather than his home address.
What cannot be established is what either property costs, or whether he retains a Swiss or Dubai residence alongside them. Those details have never been published by anyone with access to them, and European property records do not make them available the way American ones do. Other athletes with strong home-country ties keep a similar split between a working base and a family one, as the coverage of Lionel Messi’s properties shows, and Spain in particular has drawn many public figures to live quietly outside the main cities, including Mads Mikkelsen in Mallorca.
Sources
- Wikipedia and Turismo Asturias on the Fernando Alonso Museum and Circuit at Llanera, its public funding, opening and contents.
- Spain.info on the museum’s collection.
- CNN on his family background, and El Español on his reported assets.
- Autoevolution on his move to Lugano during his Ferrari years.
- El Español and idealista on the Oviedo finca, its reported purchase price and current estimates.
- El Desmarque and The Objective on his 2022 move to Monaco.
- RacingNews365 on the birth of his son in March 2026.
- Grande Prêmio and Motorsport Week on his 2027 contract and plans.
- Wikipedia for his career record, birthplace, and Asturian ties.
- Time Out Dubai on his reported Dubai apartment.
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