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Amalfi Coast, Italy

Amalfi Coast, Italy

6 Amalfi Coast Hotels With a Private Jetty, So You Never Touch the Coast Road

Before the road was cut in the 1850s the villages were connected by boat. Two hours by car in August is twenty-five minutes by sea.

Bologna and Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Bologna and Emilia-Romagna, Italy

9 Bologna Hotels Under the Porticoes

Owners were allowed to extend upper floors over the street provided the space beneath stayed public. Nine centuries later you can cross the city in rain.

Cinque Terre and Portofino, Italy

Cinque Terre and Portofino, Italy

7 Ligurian Hotels Near the Cinque Terre, Because There Are None In It

A national park on a vertical coast with no flat ground and no permission to build. You stay outside the villages and come in by train.

Florence, Italy

Florence, Italy

10 Florence Hotels Inside the Centro Storico Where Nothing Needs a Taxi

The camera-enforced traffic zone makes the centre almost car-free. Ten hotels inside it, where the Uffizi and the Duomo are both a walk.

Lake Como, Italy

Lake Como, Italy

10 Lake Como Hotels at a Village the Ferry Actually Serves

In the central basin three villages are fifteen minutes apart by boat. At the ends of the lake the same day is a drive behind a coach.

Lake Garda, Italy

Lake Garda, Italy

11 Lake Garda Hotels Sorted by Which Shore

Lemons were grown at the northern end in glazed stone frames, at a latitude the trees should not survive. That tells you what the lake does to climate.

Matera and Basilicata, Italy

Matera and Basilicata, Italy

6 Matera Hotels Inside the Sassi

Fifteen thousand people were rehoused by state order within living memory, and the caves stood empty for thirty years before anyone came back.

Matera and Basilicata, Italy

Matera and Basilicata, Italy

6 Matera Hotels Inside the Sassi

Nine thousand years of continuous habitation, then a 1952 law that emptied the district and called it the shame of Italy. The caves stood empty for thirty years.

Milan, Italy

Milan, Italy

10 Milan Hotels in the Quadrilatero That Are Better on a Sunday

Tables that need three weeks' notice on a Thursday are free on a Sunday. Most visitors come midweek and conclude Milan is not worth it.

Naples and Capri, Italy

Naples and Capri, Italy

10 Capri and Naples Hotels Above the Funicular, Not Below It

Every ferry lands at sea level and the island you came for is 140 metres above it. Arrival here is a boat, a funicular and a porter.

Palermo and Western Sicily, Italy

Palermo and Western Sicily, Italy

8 Western Sicily Hotels Around Arab-Norman Palermo

A Christian chapel with Greek mosaics under an Islamic honeycomb ceiling, built in the 1130s for a king whose coronation mantle was embroidered in Arabic.

Puglia, Italy

Puglia, Italy

12 Puglia Masserie With Their Own Olive Groves

Thick walls, a defensive tower and an enclosed courtyard, because the coast was raided and the farms had to hold. Now they are hotels.

Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy

12 Rome Hotels in the Centro Storico Where Everything Is a Walk

The Pantheon to the Trevi is six minutes. Book near a metro station and you will spend the week underground for no reason.

Taormina and Eastern Sicily, Italy

Taormina and Eastern Sicily, Italy

8 Taormina Hotels With Etna at the End of the Terrace

A third-century BC theatre cut into the hillside so that the stage opens onto a live volcano. The town has faced the same way ever since.

The Dolomites, Italy

The Dolomites, Italy

12 Dolomite Hotels Beneath the Iron Roads

Cables, rungs and tunnels driven through rock at three thousand metres to move soldiers. A century on, it is why people come here in summer.

Turin and the Langhe, Italy

Turin and the Langhe, Italy

11 Turin and Langhe Hotels Within Reach of the Barolo Villages

Outside the truffle weeks the same hills are quiet, the restaurants are half the price and the wine is exactly as good.

Tuscany, Italy

Tuscany, Italy

12 Tuscan Estates Within a Drive of Siena and Florence

Sharecropping ended in the 1960s and thousands of farms emptied. The buildings sat derelict for decades before anyone wanted them.

Umbria, Italy

Umbria, Italy

9 Umbrian Hotels in the Hill Towns

It looks like Tuscany and receives a fraction of the visitors. Being landlocked kept it poor once and keeps it quiet now.

Venice, Italy

Venice, Italy

5 Venice Hotels With a Water Door, Where You Arrive by Boat and Never Carry a Bag Over a Bridge

Four hundred stepped bridges and no wheeled vehicles. The palazzi that still use their water entrances remove the problem entirely.

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