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Cappadocia, Turkey

Museum Hotel

A museum hotel on the slope of Uçhisar: cave rooms among antiquities and a pool over which hot-air balloons rise at sunrise.

Villas with pools

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Portugal

Bussaco Palace Hotel

A Neo-Manueline palace (1888–1907) in the Bussaco forest on the site of a Carmelite convent. A national monument and a hotel.

Castles & palaces

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Swedish Lapland, Sweden

ICEHOTEL

The world's first ice hotel: every winter artists from around the world rebuild it from the ice of the Torne River.

Unusual cabins

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Bali, Indonesia

Alila Villas Uluwatu

An architectural eco-resort by WOHA on the rocky plateau of the Bukit peninsula: pavilion villas with pools above the ocean.

Villas with pools

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Amalfi Coast, Italy

Villa Cimbrone

A historic villa in Ravello above the Amalfi Coast, now a hotel. Home of the famous Terrace of Infinity.

Historic mansions

New York, USA

Lotte New York Palace

A hotel in the 1880s Villard Houses on Madison Avenue, opposite St Patrick's Cathedral.

Historic mansions

New York, USA

The Plaza

The legendary 1907 “château” hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park.

Historic mansions

Naples and Vesuvius, Italy

Villa Signorini Events & Hotel

An 18th-century villa on Ercolano's “Golden Mile”, between Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, with frescoes and a garden.

Historic mansions

Cappadocia, Turkey

Sacred House

An adults-only boutique hotel in an old Greek mansion in Ürgüp: themed rooms and the underground “Inferno” spa.

Historic mansions

Around Paris, France

Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay

A hotel in a former 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Rambouillet forest, 40 km from Paris. The ruins of a Gothic church stand right in the park.

Castles & palaces

Istanbul, Turkey

Pera Palace Hotel

An 1895 hotel built for Orient Express passengers in the Pera district — the oldest European-style hotel in Turkey.

Historic mansions

French Riviera, France

Hôtel Negresco

A 1913 Belle Époque hotel with a pink dome on Nice's Promenade des Anglais.

Historic mansions

Lake Como, Italy

Villa d'Este

A 16th-century Renaissance residence on Lake Como, a hotel since 1873: a 10-hectare park and the famous floating pool.

Historic mansions

Lake Como, Italy

Grand Hotel Tremezzo

A 1910 Art Nouveau hotel on the western shore of Lake Como — with a pool right above the water and a view of Bellagio.

Rooms with a view