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Explore → Get Early AccessThree stays and nineteen nights: Fellini's belle-époque legend is simply our Rimini. Chandeliers, the private beach, a negroni in the garden at...
Read our stay →Ten August nights in 2019: the classic pineta resort with its own beach club through the pines. Milano Marittima as it was...
WePuglia: Terrazza su Polignano
Rome gone contemporary — two palazzi near Via Veneto turned glossy and playful, with a rooftop scene that earns the hype. We...
Read our stay →Fiumicino handles the long-haul flights, with the Leonardo Express running to Termini in half an hour, and the high-speed rail network makes...
Our base at the foot of the Palatine, a former convent with a citrus garden in the courtyard. The Forum is five...
Prati calm across the river from the crowds — Vatican in walking range, trattorias the neighbors actually use. Booked for our next...
We booked it in 2018 — then came straight back. Steps from the Forum with the whole centro walkable, it is the...
Our Monti base on Via Nazionale: the Forum a downhill walk in one direction, Termini ten minutes in the other, and the...
Bold W design inside a historic palazzo off Via Veneto. The skylit lounge, Giano by Ciccio Sultano, and a rooftop over the...
Suites in a medieval tower with the Duomo filling the window, close enough to read the marble. Our 2022 base, and the...
Read our stay →Most travelers arrive by rail: Santa Maria Novella station sits at the edge of the center, ninety minutes from Rome and forty...
Arno-front grandeur on Piazza Ognissanti. Chandeliers, river light, and a rooftop bar made for one golden-hour spritz. Our 2019 splurge, worth it...
A doge's palazzo on the Grand Canal where the water taxi delivers you to a private dock, Hemingway's Venice address, and for...
Read our stay →Fly into Marco Polo and arrive by water, or take the train straight across the lagoon to Santa Lucia, where the Grand...
A 15th to 16th century palazzo on the Grand Canal, facing the Salute. Frescoed rooms, the famous canal-side terrace, and a water-taxi...
Malpensa takes the intercontinental traffic, Linate the short hops, and Centrale's great hall is the front door to the rest of Italy...
Sharp, dependable design-hotel comfort — Milan efficiency in hotel form, and an easy base between the center and Porta Nuova. Ours for...
Naples is seventy minutes from Rome on the high-speed line, and Capodichino airport sits unusually close to the center. The station puts...
Our first-ever Naples base, up in elegant Chiaia by the seafront: quieter nights, gallery shopping, and a straight shot to Castel dell'Ovo....
Four separate stays and seventeen nights. This is our Naples home. Business-class comfort a short walk from the centro storico chaos, with...
Bologna is the rail crossroads of Italy: Florence in forty minutes, Milan in an hour, Venice in ninety. The airport is a...
Three stays across five years — our Bologna constant. Liberty-style elegance on the porticoed Via Indipendenza, ten minutes on foot to the...
Tuscany is the one place in Italy where the right answer is usually a house, not a hotel: a villa or agriturismo...
The coast has no airport and no rail line of its own, which is part of the charm: fly or train to...
For a week or more, an apartment in Praiano or up the Positano steps beats a hotel on price and on terrace....
Terraced above the Via Krupp greenery with pool ledges facing the sea — our one Capri night taught the lesson: staying over...
A frescoed 16th-century palazzo in Sorrentos old lanes — our 2017 base for the whole peninsula: Positano by ferry, Pompeii by train,...
The Gonzaga city on three lakes, where Giulio Romano, Alberti, and Mantegna all left their mark.
The lean is real, but the miracle is the whole field: baptistery, cathedral, camposanto and tower…
The Renaissance planned city: a moated castle downtown, palaces of diamonds, and more bicycles than anywhere…
A Catalan town on the Sardinian coast, walled against the sea and still speaking its own…
Giotto, Galileo, and the Oldest Student City in Italy
The walled city: bike the Renaissance ramparts, climb the tree-topped tower, and hear Puccini at home.
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