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Lupaia
Tuscany, Italy
Ten rooms in a restored 1622 farm hamlet on a lonely hilltop above the Val d'Orcia. Vineyards and woodland on every side, a garden-to-table dinner each evening, and very little reason to leave.
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Castelfalfi
Tuscany, Italy
A restored medieval hamlet in the hills near Montaione, between Florence and Pisa, at the centre of a 1,100-hectare private estate of vineyards, olive groves and woodland. The borgo holds the hotel, an 800-year-old castle, a church, a spa and the largest golf course in Tuscany.
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80/ 100
Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
Hampshire, United Kingdom
A Georgian red-brick manor on the 500-acre Dogmersfield Park estate in Hampshire, with an 18th-century stable block turned 27,000-square-foot spa, an 11th-century lake, and miles of parkland walking within about an hour of London.
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96/ 100
Eleven Deplar Farm
Skagafjörður, Iceland
An Eleven Experience adventure lodge in the remote Fljot Valley on Iceland's Troll Peninsula, a former sheep farm rebuilt with turf roofs and floor-to-ceiling glass. Thirteen rooms, a 5,000-square-foot spa with a geothermal indoor-outdoor pool, and an all-inclusive programme that runs from heli-skiing in spring to salmon fishing and riding in summer.
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93/ 100
The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland
Grindavik, Iceland
A small hotel of just over 60 suites built into an 800-year-old lava field on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, with its own quiet arm of the Blue Lagoon reserved for guests, a subterranean spa carved into the rock, and the Michelin-starred Moss restaurant. About 20 minutes from Keflavik airport and 45 from Reykjavik.
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Lefay Resort & SPA Lago di Garda
Lago di Garda, Italy
An eco-built wellness resort on a wooded hillside above the western shore of Lake Garda, set in a private estate of woodland and olive groves within the Alto Garda Bresciano park. Every room has a lake-view terrace, and the 4,300-square-metre spa blends classical Chinese medicine with Western research.
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83/ 100
7132 Hotel
Vals, Switzerland
A design pilgrimage in the remote Graubunden village of Vals, at the head of an alpine valley. The hotel is attached to the 7132 Thermal Baths that Peter Zumthor built in 1996 from 60,000 slabs of local quartzite, and its rooms come in two styles: larger contemporary suites, or the compact House of Architects rooms by Zumthor, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and Thom Mayne.
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Six Senses Douro Valley
Douro Valley, Portugal
A restored 19th-century manor house, Quinta de Vale Abraao, on a hillside above the Douro river near Lamego, with 71 rooms, interiors by Clodagh, an organic garden and a spa built around the antioxidant properties of local grapes. About 90 minutes from Porto.
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SHA Spain
Alicante, Spain
A white, terraced medical wellness clinic above the village of El Albir on the Costa Blanca, where every stay is built around a structured health programme, macrobiotic-leaning cuisine and integrative medicine, with the Sierra Helada mountains on one side and the Mediterranean on the other.
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