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Top 25 hotels in Italy

25 memorable places to stay in Italy, from grand landmarks to characterful boutique hotels.

25 hotels

  1. 1
    Historic & heritage

    Hotel Danieli

    Venice

    Grand hotel in a 14th-century Venetian Gothic palazzo beside St Mark's Square, open since 1824.

  2. 2
    Grand & luxury

    Villa d'Este

    Cernobbio

    Renaissance villa on Lake Como set in historic gardens, a hotel since 1873.

  3. 3
    Grand & luxury

    Hotel Cipriani

    Venice

    Luxury hotel on Giudecca island with gardens and a large pool facing St Mark's Basin.

  4. 4
    Grand & luxury

    Hotel Hassler Roma

    Rome

    Family-run luxury hotel at the top of the Spanish Steps with sweeping views over Rome.

  5. 5
    Boutique & design

    Le Sirenuse

    Positano

    Former family summer house turned hotel overlooking the colourful cliffside village of Positano.

  6. 6
    Grand & luxury

    Grand Hotel Tremezzo

    Tremezzina

    Art Nouveau lakeside hotel of 1910 facing Bellagio across Lake Como.

  7. 7
    Historic & heritage

    Hotel Caruso

    Ravello

    Converted 11th-century palazzo on the Ravello clifftop with an infinity pool above the Amalfi Coast.

  8. 8
    Historic & heritage

    Grand Hotel Timeo

    Taormina

    Taormina's oldest hotel, founded in 1873 beside the ancient Greek theatre with views of Etna.

  9. 9
    Grand & luxury

    Hotel de Russie

    Rome

    Elegant hotel between Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps with a terraced secret garden.

  10. 10
    Historic & heritage

    Grand Hotel et de Milan

    Milan

    Historic hotel near La Scala where Giuseppe Verdi lived and died in 1901.

  11. 11
    Grand & luxury

    Four Seasons Hotel Firenze

    Florence

    Luxury hotel in two Renaissance palaces within one of Florence's largest private gardens.

  12. 12
    Grand & luxury

    Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni

    Bellagio

    Belle Époque hotel on the tip of the Bellagio promontory, run by the same family since 1918.

  13. 13
    Historic & heritage

    Splendido

    Portofino

    Former monastery turned hotel on the hillside above Portofino's harbour, beloved of film stars.

  14. 14
    Grand & luxury

    Grand Hotel Quisisana

    Capri

    Capri's landmark grand hotel, opened as a sanatorium in 1845 near the famous Piazzetta.

  15. 15
    Historic & heritage

    Villa Igiea

    Palermo

    Art Nouveau villa hotel on Palermo's seafront with interiors by Ernesto Basile.

  16. 16
    Grand & luxury

    Grand Hotel Vesuvio

    Naples

    Seafront grand hotel of 1882 on Naples' Via Partenope facing Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius.

  17. 17
    Resort

    Borgo Egnazia

    Fasano

    Resort built in the style of a traditional Apulian village near the Adriatic coast.

  18. 18
    Country house

    Masseria San Domenico

    Savelletri

    Fortified 15th-century Apulian farmhouse amid olive groves, now a country hotel near the sea.

  19. 19
    Resort

    Hotel Cala di Volpe

    Porto Cervo

    Resort styled as a fishing village, designed by Jacques Couëlle on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda.

  20. 20
    Country house

    Castello di Casole

    Casole d'Elsa

    Restored hilltop castle estate in the Tuscan countryside between Siena and Volterra.

  21. 21
    Historic & heritage

    Villa San Michele

    Fiesole

    Former 15th-century Franciscan monastery on the Fiesole hillside overlooking Florence.

  22. 22
    Grand & luxury

    Hotel Principe di Savoia

    Milan

    Grand hotel of 1927 on Piazza della Repubblica, long Milan's address for visiting dignitaries.

  23. 23
    Mountain & lodge

    Forestis

    Bressanone

    Minimalist mountain retreat at 1,800 metres on the Plose, facing the Dolomites' Odle peaks.

  24. 24
    Boutique & design

    Palazzo Margherita

    Bernalda

    19th-century palazzo restored by Francis Ford Coppola as a small hotel in rural Basilicata.

  25. 25
    Historic & heritage

    Grand Hotel Continental Siena

    Siena

    Hotel in a 17th-century papal palazzo on Siena's main street with a frescoed salon.

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