On the north coast of Scotland, south of the iconic Kyle of Tongue loch, a Victorian building has been reimagined by Groves-Raines Architects Studio (GRAS), becoming a home away from home, surrounded by wilderness and with simplicity being its greatest charm: Kinloch Lodge.  

Shaped by the desert landscape in southern Baja California, Mexico, the Paradero hotel emerges from a unique ecosystem that absorbs and integrates the surrounding space in an articulation of the place. 

Luxury, ostentation and magnificence are attributes that are indissociable from Dubai and most of its buildings.  

Inspired by the compelling lives of the Archduchess Dorothea and Palatine Joseph in 19th century Hungary, the Dorothea Hotel in Budapest perfectly brings together the vibrant energy of a modern metropolis with the city’s timeless grandeur.

In Pekutatan, a small Hindu village not far from Bali, there is a secret concealed by a huge wall with neon signs (the work of Tobias Rehberger).  

At Arbaso, everything is Euskadi! Located in the historic heart of San Sebastián, just a stone’s throw from the neo-Gothic Buen Pastor cathedral, the Arbaso hotel — meaning “ancestors” in Basque — is the epitome of a people, its origins and traditions, its culture and gastronomy. 

The House of Shila is a laboratory of emotions. The Greek studio focuses on the creation of experimental concepts of hospitality, discovering unique spaces which it converts into intimate narratives that whisk us away on sensorial voyages.  

Embedded in the distinguished fabric of Paris’ 16th arrondissement, the neoclassical beauty of the building built in 1892 – erstwhile home of Louis Adolphe Thiers, then a gentlemen’s club, and later turned hotel in 1991 – has now seen its story once again reinvented, only this time through the language of Laura Gonzalez. 

Kisawa means unbreakable and it’s that kind of connection that this sanctuary – extending over 300 hectares of forest, dunes and beach on the southern tip of Benguerra island, in Mozambique – wants to build between the people and the place, life and the land. 

Surrounded as if by an unending natural canvas, dotted with olive groves, vineyards and oak and chestnut woods, it is in the Umbria region, bordering Tuscany, that the Hotel Castello di Reschio rises majestically. 

"Menorca has so many stories to tell beyond the beach." This is how Cristina Lozano begins the conversation, which sounds rather like an adage, on a sunny morning in Mahón. 

Reminiscences of Europe and the legendary American Roaring Twenties can be detected at the Commodore Perry Estate, one of the latest luxury hideaways brought to us by the Auberge Resorts group.