Houses worth the journey
The same eye that ranks the dishes, turned on where to stay. A short list of regions we send people to, and the houses in them we would book ourselves.
The regions
Nine places we know well enough to send you without a caveat.
Featured this season
Every house is credited to the collection it comes from, and links back to it to book.
An olive-country estate above Ostuni, built for ten and the long Puglian lunch.
Perched on the Amalfi cliffs, terraces open straight onto the Tyrrhenian.
On the Tropézienne peninsula -- minutes from the beach clubs, screened from the noise.
A panoramic house outside baroque Noto -- Sicily's south-east at its best.
An authentic Mallorcan villa in Pollença -- Tramuntana light, no gloss.
An 18th-century farmhouse minutes from Saint-Rémy, serviced to hotel standard.
A large Chianti villa twenty minutes from Florence -- eight en-suite bedrooms.
Field notes
Same sea, half the crowds, and a regulatory climate that still welcomes you.
The homes where the kitchen is the reason to come, not an afterthought.
What the photos hide, which words to trust, and the questions to ask first.