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On the crown of the Aventine, Rome's most beautiful hill, lies a near-empty piazza designed by Piranesi, a man who loved a surprise. A single green door leads into the Priory of the Knights of Malta.
It is no accident that the Library, a Manhattan boutique hotel, sits a block from the New York Public Library, the grand century-old building that inspired it. Sales chief Adele Milne explains the connection.
As the Armani Hotel Dubai turns five, we celebrate its quiet refusal of Arabian cliché, Giorgio Armani's hand-picked materials and the world's tallest tower wrapped around it.
At Otahuna Lodge, a beautifully preserved historic mansion near Christchurch, it is the silence you notice first, broken only by distant birdsong and a breeze through the willows. Utter bliss awaits.
Five days, eleven hundred kilometres and four regions: a luxury road trip from Rome through Tuscany and Liguria to Milan, taking in storied hotels, Michelin-starred tables and the slow Italian good life.
How do you build the perfect holiday home? Follow René Benko's lead, and you will need a large investment of some fifty million dollars, a stunning remote setting, a timeless design and impeccably attentive staff.
There’s nothing like Central Italy. With its medieval fortified villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, it’s little wonder the region charms everyone who visits. But this bountiful, picturesque part of t…
The intimate Orcaella by Belmond glides along the Chindwin and Irrawaddy, the rivers at the heart of Myanmar. Nick Walton boards the new cruiser amid rice paddies, limestone cliffs and the laughter of curious children.
The Sha Wellness Clinic is a high-end health farm that combines ancient macrobiotic wisdom with advanced medicine, to put you in the perfect place – both in terms of its expertise and the stunning locale – to discipline your body and recharge it at the same time. They say that we should…
Developer René Benko has redrawn Vienna's map with the Golden Quarter on Tuchlauben. At its centre stands the spectacular Park Hyatt, where our writer settles into one of its sumptuous suites.
Though it’s just as beautiful, Lake Garda never became the playground for the wealthy that its smaller neighbour, Lake Como, did. Yet, now that a handful of starchitects have teamed up to create a unique ensemble of stunningly beautiful and expensive homes, it looks as if the nature of …
The world of hotels could easily be categorised as BA (Before Aman) and AA (After Aman). With its pioneering strategy of creating stunning hotels in far-flung locations with limited rooms at high rates – discreetly advertised just by word-of-mouth – Aman resorts have forever changed Hot…