Charming hotels immersed in magnificent landscapes, where you can enjoy ‘made in Italy’ hospitality and authentic experiences.
Overlooking the blue seas, the most beautiful lakes or immersed in the hinterland, these ten hotels
they all feature an intimate vibe and a touch of contemporary glam.
What sets them apart? Great personality, attention to service, discretion, excellent catering, and warm hospitality.
Discover them with the advice of HotelmyPassion
Sardinia, Lake Garda, Tuscany, Sicily, Puglia, the Vicenza countryside and Liguria. Wherever your heart takes you with the suggestions of HotelmyPassion you can find unique hotels. Where to breathe their personality and be captivated by their charm. Where to let yourself be pampered, because attention to the customer is an absolute imperative and let yourself be ‘taken by the throat’ since the restaurant is a strong point and offers refined proposals ranging from the most innovative to the most typical. Always with selected products.
But above all, you will discover hotels that will allow you to live experiences that put you in direct contact with the spirit and traditions of the place.
Here are 10 charming hotels suspended between sky, sea and lakes and countryside
1 Hotel Byron, Forte dei Marmi
18 new suites and 2 restaurants. Here are the news of the Hotel Byron in Forte dei Marmi. In one of the most refined settings of Versilia, the patrician residence has been enlarged to offer an increasingly comfortable stay, in the name of elegance and beauty.
The historic “Villa” with 29 rooms and suites has been joined by the “Sasso”, the new wing so called in homage to the local stone. It includes 18 suites. They are spread over 3 floors overlooking the hotel garden, all with terrace and balcony.
The suites stand out for their unmistakable style which enhances the pursuit of beauty in every detail.
The renovation also involved the hotel’s restaurant offer. La Magnolia, led for the second year by chef Marco Bernardo, becomes the real gourmet space and moves to the first floor of the annex of the Villa. Among the main innovations, the introduction of the chef’s table to give guests a more intimate and engaging experience with the kitchen.
But that is not all. La Magnolia is joined by Onda, the second restaurant (always led by chef Bernardo) reserved only for guests of the hotel located by the pool. Onda offers a simple and streamlined lunch menu, while for the evening the proposal changes daily to offer a menu with dishes that tell the best that the territory has to offer.
2 The Sense Experience Resort, Maremma Tuscany
The Sense Experience Resort offers its guests an all-round experience in the Maremma area. In fact, it is set in a 5-hectare park overlooking the beach of the Gulf of Follonica. It also has a botanical garden and gardens where aromatic and perfumed plants also appear in the guests’ dishes and cocktails.
The Eaté fine dining restaurant is directly on the beach. Here the chefs Alessandra Zacchei and Nazareno Dodi offer a cuisine with an emotional matrix that goes well with the philosophy of the resort, that is, giving guests immersive experiences in connection with the surrounding nature and with the territory, stimulating all 5 senses.
For this season they offer 3 tasting menus: N. 7 Experience, N. 7 and N. 5. The dishes are a celebration of the Maremma and its excellent local raw materials. They are simple dishes which, starting from the traditions of Italian cuisine, are interpreted in a creative way.
3 Su Gologone Experience Hotel, Sardinia
Su Gologone is not a hotel, it is an experience. A pleasant surprise at every corner, a warm smile at every glance. In the splendid Barbagia, a rugged and surprising land of Sardinia, with the sea just a few tens of kilometers away, there is a hidden world made of juniper trees and embroidery, terracotta and inlay work, Sardinian artists of the twentieth century and a strong culinary tradition.
The summer season coincides with many novelties, as told by Giovanna Palimodde, art collector and artist and owner of Su Gologone. “The creative classroom, furnished with furniture from the 1930s and 1940s. It is inside the art workshops and is designed to leave free space for the creativity of the guests, who can choose from hundreds of temperas, colours, brushes and give substance to their creative flair.
Another piece of news is a beautiful suite with a swimming pool overlooking the valley, surrounded by nature and independent. And also many creative courses for adults and children, related to art, crafts and nature. There are also yoga and ayrveda retreats.
On the catering front, the novelty is the Sos Nidos restaurant, the Blu Zone restaurant which offers the dishes of the Centenarians, that is, a menu that tells the story, which bears witness to the longevity of the inhabitants of Barbagia.
So here are Barbagia cold cuts, a selection of cheeses with goat ricotta and goat cheese with field herbs, frughe with tomatoes, wild vegetables sautéed with Panedda’s, vegetables in oil, Frughe soup and Gavoi potatoes, stewed goat with wild herbs, braised beef in Cannonau wine, cassola vegetables, fresh cheese and must desserts and fennel pudding”.
4 Du Lac et Du Parc Grand Resort, Riva del Garda
Du Lac et Du Parc Grand Resort is the jewel of Trentino Riva Del Garda. In a magical location on Lake Garda. A real family holiday destination where you can stay in hotels, bungalow suites and relax in the spa and fitness centre, a multi-sport centre.
The moment dedicated to food represents an experience to be lived at 360 degrees. Aria Live Cooking Restaurant is the main restaurant of the resort. Here dinner is offered with a live cooking formula. In fact, every evening the chef offers a wide choice of fresh, tasty and incomparable foods with “on sight” preparation of pasta, meat or fish.
The Molo44 Lounge Bar & Bistrot has large windows overlooking the terrace immersed in the park. Dedicated to lovers of Mediterranean cuisine, it is also ideal for enjoying drinks, aperitifs and cocktails.
Instead La Capannina Pizza & Grill Pool Restaurant is immersed in the lush vegetation of the Resort park and close to the swimming pool. In the summer months it offers traditional Italian dishes, as well as grilled meats and lake and sea fish, but also the real Neapolitan pizza.
6 Villa della Pergola, Alassio
Villa della Pergola Relais & Châteaux e il Ristorante Nove, 1 stella Michelin, hanno riaperto le loro porte con un’offerta sempre più incentrata sull’ospite.
Villa della Pergola Relais & Châteaux and the Nove Restaurant, 1 Michelin star, have reopened their doors with an offer increasingly focused on the guest.
Surrounded by the most beautiful park in Italy, the Gardens of Villa della Pergola, over two hectares overlooking the sea and entirely available to guests, there are 4 Villas within the property with 15 suites, all different from each other.
The gastronomic offer is not lacking: the Nove Restaurant returns with the reconfirmation of the Michelin Star also for 2023 with chef Giorgio Pignagnoli, fresh from the Best Chef Under 35 award, further embellishing the structure and giving prestige to Alassio and the entire Region.
The Nove menu is made up of 3 different tasting itineraries, 3 different experiences but with a strong meaning. That is, the synthesis of dishes to which the chef but also the customers became most fond of last season but also the research and development work during the winter break.
7 Masseria Soluco, Monopoli, Puglia
Talea Collection announces a new prestigious opening: Masseria Soluco, in the Monopoli countryside. It is on a hill surrounded by tree crops, Virgilian oaks, fragni, olive, almond and pomegranate trees.
The Masseria boasts a panoramic salt water swimming pool, among olive trees and secular oaks. It has 6 rooms, including 4 suites. It is perfect for those who want to live an authentic Apulian experience, in total exclusivity and privacy.
The eighteenth-century chapel is of great impact.
8 New beach club in Sicily
Planeta Estate inaugurates the new season of La Foresteria, the wine resort of the Planeta family on the coast of south-western Sicily, with the new Insula Beach Club.
Insula is a tribute to the landscape of Menfi, where the journey began
of Planeta in Sicily. The Club is surrounded by nature, a few steps from Lido Fiori which also this year was awarded the important recognition of
Blue Flag.
A wild beach in reddish hues, among which dunes spontaneous vines grow – witnesses of a suitable territory e pristine – where maritime vegetation greens the landscape up to shore and where the crystal clear sea offers the eye infinite shades of blue.
Along this strip of sand it is possible to attend wonderful shows of nature: from the flowering of sea lilies to the hatching of turtles marine caretta caretta.
At the Angelo Pumilia restaurant, also Chef of La Foresteria Planeta, offers seafood cuisine and products from the land of Menfi.
9 Ca’ Apollonio Heritage, Vicenza
In the quiet countryside of Vicenza, everything is almost ready for the imminent opening of Villa Ca’ Apollonio in Romano d’Ezzelino, a boutique hotel of indisputable charm, where you can breathe luxury with an authentic soul and respectful of nature and the traditions of the place.
The soul of Ca’ Apollonio comes to life in a natural oasis, an agricultural park where you can enjoy every stay as an experience of culture and well-being linked to the local area.
It was born from the skilful renovation of the fifteenth-century residence and of the Ca’ Apollonio Heritage complex consisting of a bistro, gourmet restaurant and boutique hotel, with a precise concept of the property: implementing a conservative recovery of the villa but, at the same time, bringing that allure of contemporaneity and suitable charm to welcome travelers of the third millennium.
Hence, as soon as you cross the entrance threshold, the perception is that of an extraordinary sense of amazement and serenity.
In every common area the ancient and the modern dialogue in perfect harmony. The elegant spaces of the villa, from the hall to the restaurant to the bookshop, offer sartorial and refined furnishings by Arte Brotto. The company that in the field of interior design is defined as ‘furniture tailoring‘ and is chosen by those who favor the pure value of the material, the original trait, the exclusive shapes.
Luxury and refined style also in each of the 7 suites of the Ca’Apollonio boutique hotel. Each one different from the other, they are the result of a classy choice made by the owners, who intended to establish a common thread of harmony in a contemporary style for the night area as well, making use of the standard made up of natural elements, organic finishes and neutral and relaxing and made-to-measure furnishings, all Arte Brotto.
Luxurious walk-in closets and bookcase walls in oiled walnut and eucalyptus.
Discretion, functionality and essentiality are the founding criteria of an authentic and authentically revealing luxury of very high quality.
Sophisticated hospitality for demanding customers.
The Restaurant – Flagship for sophisticated palates
From the gardens to the kitchen there are about 400 steps, a distance that allows us to fully maintain the freshness, fragrance and flavors of what we grow organically and to be able to offer it to chef Alessio Longhini and his brigade, for surprising interpretations.
The bond with the land and the passion for natural things in one hectare of gardens cultivated with dedication and love. In fact, fruit, vegetables and cereals are grown according to certified organic methods, inspiring the creation of new dishes.
A synergy that unites heart, head, hands and earth for a harvest that is born in the gastronomic gardens and arrives directly on the restaurant tables.
10 Gallicantu
Over 3 hectares of Mediterranean scrub and granite with anthropomorphic shapes conceal the 5 rooms and 2 suites of Gallicantu. It is a stazzo retreat a few steps from the village of Luogosanto, in the heart of Gallura.
Gallicantu, alba in ancient Sardinian, is a stazzo from the 1930s that was abandoned for almost half a century. The owners, Marco Maria Berio and Raffaella Manca, followed the renovation works, searched for materials and furnishings, designing each piece as they had imagined it.
Gallicantu conserves two pens restored with traditional materials. Some digressions by the architect Jean Claude Lesuisse, such as the bull’s-eye windows, give both an almost fairy-tale character.
The main stazzo houses 5 bedrooms, each one different from the other, a living room with fireplace for cooler evenings and a wellness area with sauna, Turkish bath, emotional showers and a small relaxation area. A little further on are the 2 Igna and Mendula suites.
The old stable now houses the kitchen. Breakfast and dinner are served on a terrace from which you can see the towns of Alta Gallura and Corsica.
At the center of the estate is the swimming pool carved out of the rocks. The Grotto is not to be missed. Already inhabited in the pre-Nuragic era, it is a spectacular cellar for tasting cold cuts, hams and cheeses from nearby pens or small local producers.
Country life takes place all around with the care of the vegetable garden that feeds the kitchen. Here, guests can pick seasonal vegetables with a basket in hand. Then hundreds of olive trees from which the oil of the estate is produced; the almond grove, fruit trees, citrus groves and cherry trees of different qualities.
Over 200 myrtle plants give life to a delicious, handcrafted liqueur, while 10 families of bees produce honey for the guests.
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