Sleeping Around
Riposto | Zash…
For one of the most dashing country hotels south of Rome, push on all the way down to eastern Sicily and the lower slopes of Mount Etna, where you'll find Zash, tucked away among orange and lemon groves just south of the coastal ... More
Pordenone | No. 22
No. 22 Via San Quirino, in Pordenone, that is. An address to note if you're looking for something a little different in the way of hospitality up there in the North East. A peculiarly attractive modernistic construction with an overhanging terrace on ... More
Calangianus | Li Licci
It's not often we get news from Sardinia, still less the chance to get over there and scout for ourselves. But Li Licci sounds like heaven for outdoorsy travellers and gourmets. In a valley on the uplands of central Gallura in the ... More
Pizzo | Piccolo Grand Hotel
Crisp and cool in the turquoise-on-white of Greek island postcards, the Piccolo Grand Hotel basks on another Mediterranean shore, on Calabria's Tyrrhenian coast. More precisely, at Pizzo, an engaging little port built on a rocky outcrop with steep narrow streets, the ... More
Ripatransone | The Mission House
I haven't actually been there myself, yet, but anyone who has can't commend the Relais del Colle enough. It's a little out of the way, but then that's the whole point: a rural pile in a superb hilltop location where ... More
Modica | Balarte Hotel & Other
An extraordinary project inspired by Futurism, interpreted by young artists, and overseen by an architect-designer: that would be Balarte Hotel & Other, down in Sicily's south-eastern corner, about halfway between Modica and the beach at Pozzallo. Definitely other, even in the category ... More
Levice | Back to Nature
I recently found myself in one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth. Scouting around with people who've now become friends (Elisa, Mauro and the other guys who were part of our troupe), my photographer John and I set out ... More
Unmistakably Tuscan
A stay at Casa Bellavista is an experience in total Tuscan immersion if it's bucolic Tuscany you're thinking of, with its gently rolling hills spiky with cypresses, rustic terracotta architecture furnished with family heirlooms, the sun-drenched flavours of good homecooking, ... More
Milan | Magna Pars Suites
Ever heard of a fragrance hotel? Probably not, as the one we're about to reveal is probably the world's first and only, for now. It's just opened in dashing Zona Tortona, brainchild of the Martone family and created on the site ... More
Pienza | La Bandita
Remote though it is at the end of a long and winding lane deep in rural Tuscany, there's no more urban hospitality than the kind they lavish on guests at La Bandita. They are John Voigtmann, formerly of New York and big ... More
Turin | Renaissance B&B
A tiny new B&B in Via Stampatori is almost a reason in itself to visit fair Turin, Italy's first capital. The location is perfect, in a side street off Via Garibaldi in the heart of the Quadrilatero Romano, the bustling pedestrian ... More
Syracuse | Hotel Gutkowski
Small shabby-chic Hotel Gutkowski has to be one of the coolest places to stay in Unesco World Heritage site Syracuse, a requisiste stop when travelling in Sicily. It occupies two traditional sea-front buildings lightly renovated with due deference to their humble architecture on Ortygia, the ... More
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