Where to go.
No guidebooks. For each region, the houses that have made up their minds — and the ones we otherwise know.
South Tyrol
Where Alpine tradition meets Italian flair.
Southern Sweden
Manor houses, vineyards, the sea never far.
Swedish Lapland
Where the river becomes the ground in winter.
Mani
Stone towers at the end of the Peloponnese.
Chiemgau
Alpine foothills, just before the border.
Istria
Wine, oil and stone houses between two seas.
Saarland
Salzburger Land
Mountains you see from the bed.
Sicily
Lava, citrus and a volcano that watches.
Alentejo
Portugal's slower side.
Asturias
Green Spain between the Atlantic and the Picos.
Mallorca
The island that never gets old.
Azores
Volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic.
Baja California
A wine valley in the desert, one hour from San Diego.
Marrakech & Atlas
The plain outside the city and the valleys beyond.
Oaxaca
Mezcal, adobe and the long Pacific coast.
Styria
Wine hills in the south, alpine pastures and greenhouses in the north.
Adelboden
Basque Country
Hills, coast and Europe's densest cluster of starred kitchens.
Bordeaux
Wine country along the Garonne and Dordogne.
Burgenland
Steppe, lake and wine, an hour from Vienna.
Catalonia
Girona, the Costa Brava and the hinterland.
Cyclades
Dry hills, wind and the empty blue.
Dalmatia
Old town, palace, sea.
Kazbegi
Georgia's most dramatic landscape.
Lake Como
The lake that set the standard for beauty.
Menorca
The quieter Balearic.
Mostviertel
Lakes, limestone peaks and pear trees in Lower Austria.
Oualidia
A lagoon of oyster beds on Morocco's Atlantic coast.
Salzburg
Mozart's city — a baroque old town between the river and the Alps.
Slovenia
A castle on a river island.
Soča Valley
The turquoise river below the Julian Alps.
St. Moritz
Ticino
Palm trees on the Swiss side.
Transylvania
Forests, bears and manor estates in the Carpathians.
Tyrol
Nine rooms below the Zugspitze.
Zillertal
Where the Alps still look like the Alps.