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Resort

Jabal Akhdar, Oman

9.0

Alila Jabal Akhdar

A stone-built eyrie 2,000 metres up in Oman's Al Hajar mountains, perched on the rim of a vast canyon with cool air and huge stars.

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Provençal manor and olive groves of Château Saint-Martin on its hilltop above Vence
Country House

Vence, France

9.0

Château Saint-Martin & Spa

An Oetker Collection hilltop retreat above Vence, built on a former Templar commandery amid olive groves with views rolling down to the Mediterranean.

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Palm-fringed beach and granite boulders at Constance Lémuria on Praslin, Seychelles
Beach Resort

Praslin, Seychelles

9.0

Constance Lémuria

A granite-and-jungle estate on Praslin's north-west tip with three beaches, the Seychelles' only 18-hole golf course and turtles nesting on its sands.

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Pink facade and flowered terraces of Palazzo Avino above the Amalfi Coast in Ravello
Resort

Ravello, Italy

9.0

Palazzo Avino

Ravello's 'pink palace': a twelfth-century patrician villa high above the Amalfi Coast with two celebrated restaurants and a seafront clubhouse below.

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Timbered buildings of Les Sources de Caudalie beside vine rows at Château Smith Haut Lafitte
Wellness Retreat

Bordeaux, France

9.0

Les Sources de Caudalie

The birthplace of vinothérapie, a wine-country retreat amid the vines of Château Smith Haut Lafitte with a two-Michelin-starred restaurant.

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Honey-stone townhouses of Iniala Harbour House on St Barbara Bastion above Valletta's Grand Harbour
City Hotel

Valletta, Malta

9.0

Iniala Harbour House

Four townhouses on Valletta's St Barbara Bastion turned into Malta's boldest design hotel, crowned by Simon Rogan's Michelin-starred ION Harbour.

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Whitewashed clifftop buildings and gardens of Vila Vita Parc above Algarve coves
Resort

Porches, Portugal

9.0

Vila Vita Parc

A clifftop garden estate on the central Algarve whose restaurant collection—crowned by the two-Michelin-starred Ocean—leads southern Portugal.

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Earth-toned Cycladic suites of Kalesma on the Aleomandra hilltop above Ornos Bay
Resort

Aleomandra, Greece

9.0

Kalesma Mykonos

A hilltop hamlet of suites and villas above Aleomandra, whose earthy Cycladic design and sunset terraces reset expectations for Mykonos hotels.

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Terraced gardens and beachfront of Mandarin Oriental Bodrum on Paradise Bay
Beach Resort

Bodrum, Turkey

9.0

Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum

A sprawling hillside estate above two private beaches at Paradise Bay, bringing Mandarin Oriental's full resort machinery to the Turkish Riviera.

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Nineteenth-century lakefront facade of Beau-Rivage Genève on the Quai du Mont-Blanc with Lake Geneva in front
City Hotel

Geneva, Switzerland

9.0

Beau-Rivage Genève

A family-run lakefront landmark of 1865 on the Quai du Mont-Blanc, woven into Geneva's diplomatic and imperial history.

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River-front facade of Portrait Firenze beside the Ponte Vecchio on the Arno
City Hotel

Florence, Italy

9.0

Portrait Firenze

The Ferragamo family's all-suite riverside address, gazing straight at the Ponte Vecchio with the feel of a private Florentine apartment.

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Treehouse suites of Silky Oaks Lodge overlooking the boulder-strewn Mossman River in the Daintree rainforest
Resort

Port Douglas, Australia

9.0

Silky Oaks Lodge

Treehouse suites suspended over the Mossman River on the edge of the Daintree, the world's oldest rainforest, twenty minutes from Port Douglas.

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