UNA Hotel TocqAs the design-hotel phenomenon marches on, its benefits begin to trickle downward — the kind of avant-garde sophistication that was once the purview of (...)
UNA Hotel PalaceSet in a restored hundred-year-old building in the Catania city center, in the shadow of Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily, the UNA Hotel Palace is (...)
The Westin ExcelsiorFinally the Excelsior’s long-overdue refurbishment is complete. Frankly it’s a hit-or-miss proposition when one of the world’s great grand hotels (...)
UNA Hotel MalpensaOne could be forgiven for sensing something boastful about the new UNA hotel, out in the countryside near Milan’s less convenient airport. Intentional (...)
Townhouse 12Sister to the Townhouse 31 in Via Goldoni, Townhouse 12 makes its home slightly to the north of the city center, on the Piazza Gerusalemme, one of the (...)
Town House GalleriaForgive, if you will, the seven-star rating. In these days of rampant star inflation, it takes an outrageous claim like this to get the point across: (...)
The Westin Excelsior, FlorenceIf it’s the classic Florentine experience you’re after, you need look no further: this is the definitive downtown Florence grand hotel, a century-old (...)
The GrayWhile Milan may be the capital of Italian fashion, you would never have known it from its hotels — until recently, they have all come in two flavors: (...)
St. George RomaRome offers up so much history that it’s sometimes hard for the traveler to remember that, antiquity aside, Rome is a completely current and connected (...)
Santa Teresa ResortLocated on Pantelleria, a tiny Mediterranean island closer to Tunisia than it is to Sicily, the Santa Teresa Resort blends Italian and African styles. (...)
Residenza Del MoroNowhere else but Florence could you hope to find a meticulously restored Renaissance-era villa turned, with a minimum of modern interference, into a small (...)
Relais Residenza D'arteThere’s an undeniable poetic quality to the Italian language. “House of Art” would land on the ear with a dull thud, not at all an appropriate (...)
Regina Hotel BaglioniJust a hundred years old, the Regina Hotel Baglioni has to count as barely middle-aged as Roman hotels go. That said, it does old-world Italian pomp and (...)
Portrait SuitesThe flagship Ferragamo store at the foot of the Spanish Steps would already be something of a holy place, if you’re into that sort of thing. Less well (...)
Park Hyatt MilanoMilan may have a reputation as a drab, grey city, but it is nonetheless the style center of Italy, and its high-tech capital as well. Deep in the center (...)
Orange HotelIf it’s classic architecture and antique furniture you’re after, we can direct you to a number of very fine Roman hoteliers who’d be more than happy (...)
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