High above Florence, Villa San Michele reopens after an ambitious restoration, proving that the city’s finest view now comes with a hotel worthy of it.

An Emirati businessman and polo player built his 160-acre polo estate for the love of a sport. Three decades on, it remains the only place in Dubai where peacocks roam the grounds, horses work the fields at dawn, and the city feels – genuinely, remarkably – far away

The best Greek islands to visit in 2026, from car-free escapes with the art crowd to whitewashed Cycladic hangouts still under the radar, and where to stay on them

Dubai finally has the sleek, design-led city hotel it has long deserved. We checked in for a mid-week staycation and barely felt like we left the country

Camp’s Bay has long been Cape Town’s most glamorous address. It finally has the hotel to match

Fashion, heritage, identity and an entirely new idea of what a hotel experience can be: the Thebe Magugu Suite at Mount Nelson is unlike anything that has come before it

The ultimate address book – Athens’s best hotels, cafés, restaurants and views, shaped by one of the world’s oldest and most influential cities

The itinerary to save for fuss-free hopping around Greece – from the Athens Riviera to the Saronic islands and Peloponnese 

Six centuries of history, one very famous pool, and a Sicilian season that runs longer than anyone tells you. This is San Domenico Palace without the hype. It’s even better

Fresh from a second recent renovation, The Berkeley is a sophisticated stay with ‘touch me’ bedrooms, a rooftop pool, access to London’s most exclusive wellness club, an impossibly chic bar and world-famous afternoon tea experience

What Not Café is quietly staking a claim as one of the city’s most design-led spaces, with interiors furnished end-to-end by homegrown brand, Klekktic

Built in 1896, Badrutt’s Palace still sets the tempo of St Moritz, architecturally, socially and seasonally