Category: Hotels
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Tuscany’s best luxury hotels with their own tennis courts, from Montalcino and Chianti to the Argentario coast, plus Florence clubs, padel, golf and wine.
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The best luxury hotels on Lake Garda with their own tennis courts: clay, hard and padel, coaching, seasons, plus local clubs, golf and Valpolicella wine.
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Where to stay in the Aeolian Islands, island by island: Lipari, Salina, Panarea, Vulcano and Stromboli, plus the best luxury hotels.
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Where to stay in Noto and the Val di Noto, area by area: Noto town, the countryside masserie, Modica, Ragusa Ibla and the coast, plus the best luxury hotels.
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Where to stay in Palermo, area by area: the historic centre, La Kalsa, Libertà and Mondello, plus the best luxury hotels for every trip.
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Where to stay in Ortigia and Syracuse, area by area: the island old town, the waterfront, Santa Lucia and the coast, plus the best luxury hotels for every trip.
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Where to stay in Taormina, area by area: the historic centre, Mazzarò, Isola Bella and Castelmola, plus the best luxury hotels for every type of trip.
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Sicily does not do luxury the way the rest of Italy does. There is no single postcard address here, no one town that carries the island’s entire reputation for beautiful stays, the way Positano does for the Amalfi Coast or Portofino does for Liguria.
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There is a moment, arriving at Villa Cora, when Florence does something unexpected: it disappears. The noise of the city, the crowds at the Pitti Palace three minutes away, the scooters on the lungarno — all of it gone.
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Florence has never been a city that does luxury loudly. Its finest hotels occupy Renaissance palazzi and 19th-century villas, their facades indistinguishable from the buildings on either side — which is, of course, precisely the point.