COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

It was still early when Marnie slipped out of the hotel and made her way down the narrow Calle de le Rasse. In a matter of moments, she was looking out over Venice’s Grand Canal. She watched a fishing

Teresa Levonian Cole climbs aboard the latest iteration of the Orient Express for a sybaritic journey to the ‘underground city’ of Matera

Find repose from fashion season’s frenetic pace and recharge at a stylish urban sanctuary in the centre of the action

Famed for being the best place to get Venetian cicchetti (pronounced “chee-KET-eeh”), the little bites of heaven that make eating out in Venice affordable, the tables and pavement outside Vino Vero we

The Italian Lakes are renowned for being the playground of the rich and famous, so it’s no surprise that the scenery is stunning, the climate good and there is beauty all around in the form of histori