The Collection
58 selections
For designAn architect's resort cast from beach sand, stepped down five levels to the sea at Batroun, on one of the oldest ports in the Mediterranean.
For designA fortified 1483 monastery on a car-free Adriatic island off Dubrovnik, restored into a private retreat of five art-filled suites.
For the placeA rammed-earth kasbah alone on a red hilltop above the Ourika Valley, the High Atlas filling every window, 45 minutes from Marrakech.
For the tableAna Roš cooks the Soča valley here, and the ten rooms above the dining room exist so you need not drive home after her three-star menu.
For the placeA restored eighteenth-century palace hidden in the medina of Tunis, sixteen suites around a courtyard of lemon trees, with one of the city's most storied Tunisian tables in the house across the lane.
For the placeA country-house hotel on Luxor's quiet west bank, a honeycomb of frescoed courtyards and domed rooms built from salvaged old Egypt, with the Valley of the Kings on the doorstep.
For the coastThe most composed base in Dhërmi on the rising Albanian Riviera: an adults-only four-star on its own beach, pools stepped to the Ionian and a seafood kitchen, Sanur, that cooks the catch in front of you.
For designA saved Brutalist landmark on the Carmel ridge, run as a working arts complex with two concert halls and a museum's worth of art.
For the placeEighteen rooms cut into the oldest cave dwellings of Matera, on the lip of the Gravina ravine, kept close to how a thousand years left them.
For quietA restored sea captain's house on the Dobrota waterfront, ten rooms named after boats, kept apart from the crowds that fill the walled town up the shore.
For quietA cluster of derelict stone houses at the top of a Troodos village, rebuilt one by one until the village had a reason to stay alive.
For quietA tech-free alpine house at the head of a Slovenian valley, built for people who came to switch off.
For quietA fortress of salt-rock and candlelight below the White Mountain, off-grid on the shore of a Siwan salt lake.
For quietAn 18th-century Jesuit farm in the Tramuntana foothills, cooking what its own land sends in.
For the placeA 1730s Venetian quarantine station on the Bay of Kotor, restored into a five-star hotel wrapped around its own marina.
For the placeA design resort scattered through sixty-eight hectares of umbrella pine near Comporta, an hour south of Lisbon, with the Atlantic beaches a short drive away.
For the placeThe grand hotel of Costa Navarino, 321 rooms and villas in the Navarino Dunes, with Anazoe Spa, four golf courses and the whole of Messinia at the door.
For designA family's contemporary Turkish art collection hung through twelve suites above the Aegean, on the quiet side of Bodrum.
For the placeSix suites and a Michelin-starred kitchen inside a former bishop's palace, in the walled old town where Korčula claims Marco Polo as its own.
For the placeThe only hotel inside the walls of Mdina, where the Silent City empties at dusk and the old capital is more or less yours.
For designTwo 1920s houses on King Albert Square, restored into a small hotel that holds Tel Aviv's early history and a serious kitchen.
For quietA low, light-filled Wilmotte villa in the hills above Ramatuelle, built around quiet and a two-star kitchen.
For the placeA white village at the foot of the Supramonte where Sardinian art and craft are the whole point, not the decoration.
For the placeA medieval island village on the Adriatic, its stone cottages restored as an Aman and reached by a causeway from the Montenegrin shore.
For designA 19th-century finca in the island's green interior, reworked by the Experimental Group, light on polish and long on ease.
For designAn independent, art-filled riad in the medina, colour on every wall and a rooftop over the Koutoubia.
For designChristian Louboutin's first hotel: thirteen hand-made rooms on a village square in the Alentejo.
For quietA private six-bedroom estate in the olive terraces above Exambela, two infinity pools and the quiet, cultivated side of Sifnos at the gate.
For quietLow timber pavilions in a pine forest above a quiet Hvar bay, on the doorstep of the Greek-founded town of Pharos.
For the tableA family beach club on the Bodrum peninsula that happens to have rooms, where wooden decks step into the Aegean and a Michelin-starred kitchen runs the table.
For quietAn off-grid estate in the hills above Ronda, run as a working farm, where the kitchen is seed to plate and Lusitano horses graze loose across the land.
For the placeA working Malvasia vineyard around a lighthouse on Salina, the greenest of the Aeolian islands, with Stromboli on the horizon.
For the tableA cardinal's palace below the Palais des Papes, kept as a private house, with a Michelin table and a candlelit kitchen.
For designA biodynamic vineyard and sculpture park in Provence, with thirty-one suites added so you can stay among the art.
For the tableA 1920s village inn on the Riviera, hung with Picasso and Léger, with a legendary Provençal terrace.
For designA six-room masseria above Ostuni, new-built in old Puglian stone, with a no-menu kitchen worth the drive.
For designFour 17th-century townhouses on Valletta's Grand Harbour, restored by three studios into twenty-three rooms above a two-Michelin-star kitchen.
For quietA restored kasbah in the Skoura palm grove that refuses to behave like a hotel, with no menu and a different setting laid for every meal.
For the placeA small house of white-marble suites set behind the dunes on Plaka beach, where south-west Naxos meets the sea.
For the placeA whole Troodos mountain village restored into a hotel, with a Byzantine monastery across the river and a spa fed by springs used since antiquity.
For quietA single light-filled apartment in a Serres mountain village above Lake Kerkini, minutes from the pelicans and the water buffalo.
For designA working olive estate on a Dalmatian island, with eight rooms carved into the hill beneath a five-hundred-year-old grove.
For the placeA thousand-year-old monastery and cave village above Pigeon Valley, restored over fourteen years with its own vineyard.
For the placeA whole wild valley in southern Corsica, its old shepherds' houses restored as private homes around a Michelin-starred farm.
For the placeA farming village one family has held for two centuries, restored as a quiet hotel in the Alentejo.
For the placeA nineteenth-century fortress on the Bay of Palma, its watchtowers and ramparts turned into rooms.
For the placeA grand lakeside hotel on Pamvotida, the old town a walk away and the mountains across the water.
Villa Nai 3.3
Carved into the hill
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Canaves Oia
Above the caldera
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Domes Zeen
Crete, barefoot
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For the placeA 1920s seafront winery, its concrete tanks turned into rooms.
For the tableCave suites on the caldera's edge, and a kitchen that stands on its own.
For the tableA pine peninsula on the Riviera, and a one-star table by the sea.
For quietGreece's first destination spa, at the foot of Mount Taygetos.
For designA contemporary Cretan village by the water, built around an agora.