Situated in the most panoramic area of the Island of Capri, La Scalinatella is a romantic boutique hotel where guests delight in its unique and intimate hospitality. Each of the hotel’s extremely comfortable rooms are equipped with all of the modern the facilities. All of the individually appointed bedrooms have their own terrace with spectacular sea view. There is a terrace with a swimming pool with cocktail bar and a restaurant serving lunch and snacks (but not dinner). Don’t miss to order a “Scalinatella Cocktail” made with vodka, grapefruit juice, triple sec, blue curaçao, and parfait amour.

Palace Hotel and Spa is a beautiful 5 stars luxury hotel in Anacapri , the village on the island of Capri, Italy.  The hotel stands 300 meters above sea level, overlooking the open Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Naples. The hotel is stylish and exudes modern Italian charm and is located in a quieter part of the island far from the crowds of Capri.

The Capri Palace has 85 rooms, four with their own private gardens and heated swimming pool and 5 luxuriously furnished suites.

Guest rooms are opulent in gleaming white, with chandeliers, tile and marble baths and canopy beds.

Amenities: Bar, Childcare, Cleaning Service Available, Concierge, Gym, High Speed Internet, Pool, Restaurant, Room Service and Spa.

The outdoor pool is heated and the beauty farm is just the place to indulge. 

The Capri Beauty Farm’s personalized and state-of-the-art treatments are the product of ongoing medical research.

L’Olivo, La Terrazza, La Piscina: The Palace Hotel Restaurants continue the long-established family tradition for Mediterranean food, homemade bread, pasta and desserts. In addition to the poolside terrace, a number of intimate areas have been created within the restaurant featuring fire places, book cases and easy armchairs.

This installation is created by the american artist Jeffrey Inaba, in collaboration with Luca Peralta Studio, Rome, Italy, at Rome’s Policlinico Umberto I, the most important hospital in the Italian capital and one of the largest in Europe. 

The structure is focused on the waiting and transit areas, used every day by large numbers of people. Within the delicate and complex social context that a hospital represents, the artist offers different kinds of space where patients, passers-by, visitors and doctors can enjoy moments of relaxation.

Colors, lights, geometric shapes and various environmentally friendly elements give the hospital a new, dynamic energy. Through art, waiting becomes potential energy, transmitting positivity and bringing an element of comfort to an architectural space normally seen as a temporary and highly emotional environment.  The solar PV system generates more than the energy needed for the electricity to run the lights and the monitors and DVD player inside the sphere.

Named after Aeolus, god of the winds, the Aeolian Islands are a volcanic archipelago not far from Sicily’s northern coast in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Also emerged as the Lipari Islands and Isole Eolie, the principal islands of the chain are Lipari, Salina, Filicudi, Alicudi, Stromboli, Panarea and Vulcano. Between them the islands boast beautiful scenery, great beaches, castles, thermal resorts, water sports, good fishing and, of course, some live volcanic activity. Photo by: adam butler photography

These beautiful islands are quite rugged, with deep caverns, extraordinary rock formations, steep cliffs and splendid views. The volcanoes of Stromboli erupt fairly frequently. Rossellini’s 1950 film, Stromboli, was inspired by this volcano, which still regularly sends molten lava down its scarred rocks. This however, hasn’t prevented these islands from becoming popular smart resorts for well-headed Italians, so expect crowds in summer. Photo by: adam butler photography

Lapri is perhaps the most fascinating of the islands from the historical point of view, with its citadel and archeological remains. It is from there, the most of the boat trips to the beaches and other islands start out. Buoyant pumice and smooth black obsidian litter the beaches, and Lapri is well-served by restaurants and cafes. Filicudi with its basalt shoreline, is much less developed as a tourist resort – the water is magnificently clear, you can hire a boat or scuba dive, and the beaches are often empty. Photo by: afewscoops

Panarea offers a lovely scene of rocky hills, ancient settlements, green slopes and pretty buildings characterized by columns and arches. There can be found the Hotel Raya, opened in the 1960s by artist Paolo Tilche, which has given Panarea the reputation as a party island. Photo by: adam butler photography

The garden islands of Salina offers tranquility, perfect if you are looking for a hideaway. It is one of the greenest of the islands, producing capers, delicious fish and octopus and a golden dessert wine, Malvasia. It was there, that the film Il Postino was shot in the 1990s. There is a museum in Lingua, an interesting church in the post town of Santa Marina and spectacular rock formations at Pollara. The stone beaches are clean and rarely crowded, and the views over other islands are breathtaking. Stomboli has become island of choice for a select fashionable crowd. The Volcano is still main attraction, and is best viewed from an evening boat trip from where you can see the fiery show. Volcano’s other great attraction is the open air pool of volcanic mud, which attract bathers looking for a cure for skin complaints and other ailments. Photo by: adam butler photography

When to go: May, June or September. Population: 13,431. How to get there: By boat, ferry or hydrofoil from Milazzo, Palermo or Naples. You should know: The archipelago is UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its geology and vulcanology. Photo by: Ithip.com Hotel Collection

There really is no way to describe the uniqueness of this island – very romantic and picturesque. Burano is a little, very pretty island, located about 30 minutes by ferry from Venice. It’s famous for its lace making and the colorful fishermen’s houses. No cars, just boats, clothes hanging out on lines from the windows…

It is very interesting to see the older women working on the lace and visiting the lace museum. There is very little business or shopping here, as it’s almost all residential. On the main street, you will find a shop filled with masks.

The duoMo Hotel is a design hotel in the historic centre of Rimini – one of Italy’s popular seaside resorts with gorgeous beaches and an amazing night life. The hotel is close to the most important cultural places of the city, 400m from the train station, boutiques, authentic restaurants and exclusive clubs. Its future-forward design provides an ultra cool setting to unwind, meet people and conduct business, making the Duomo the trendiest design hotel around.   

The duoMo hotel is the perfect place to hold a meeting, provides guests with first-class business facilities in its meeting room and hi-tech business centre.

Its designers – Ron Arad Associates have integrated the original facade into the interior by wrapping it all in new “skin” which meanders its way to attract a younger clientele. The private “noMi club” offers only the highest quality meals, excellent Italian wine list and a large selection of cocktails and often hosts international artists and DJs. With its live DJs is a hotspot for guests and locals – the Sunday party is not to be missed.

The largest of the Pontine Islands between Rome and Naples, Ponza is a volcanic remnant lying 33 km south of Cape Circeo, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It’s a mixture of vividly coloured cliffs and crags 12 km long and never more than 2 km wide. Such rocks, kaolin and tufa has eroded into fantastic shapes, inspiring names like ‘the monk’ and ‘the giant pair of pants’. You look down on stepped terraces of vines, cactus pears and fig trees, ancient and modern. Photo by: melazeta

Ponza was once a Roman penal colony for unwanted Christians. Its isolation also served for the Roman Emperor Nero’s exile and again for Mussolini in 1943. Today the clusters of domed pastel cubes that are the hallmark of Ponsese architecture are exclusive in a different way. Photo by: lele orpo

The island is protected from development, and existing residents have curtailed neon bars and discos. You don’t have to be rich to enjoy its remoteness beauty and terrific diving, but Ponza’s style certainly favours the wealthy Italians who holiday there. Photo by: [hirony]

When to go: April to October. Come for the festival of San Silverio, Ponza’s patron saint, around 20 June. Population: 3,315. How to get there: By hydrofoil from Anzio or Naples, by ferry from Formia, Anzio and Terracina, to Ponza. Photo by: [hirony]

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The smallest and most southerly inhabited island on the Tuscan Archipelago, Giannutri is a half moon of just 3 sq km. Centuries of shifting rock falls have made it one of the finest diving sites in the Mediterranean, with no sand to cloud the lapis waters; and since there are beaches at all to attract tourism, but the circlet of rocks has preserved the island’s wild beauty from all modern depredation. Photo by: bizzo_65

There are no cars and few people. You walk on silence of the purely natural world, senses sharpened by intense colours and heady perfumes of herb and flower. Offshore it gets even better. Dolphins, turtles and sea horses wander huge meadows of ravishing underwater Poseidonia. Ghosts of 2,000 year-old wrecks could be spot and guarded by passage of fishes. Very large areas of the Marine Park are set aside for swimming and diving. Giannutri’s utopian charm provides an opportunity to escape all forms of modern hurly-burly, on land or underwater. Photo by: FabriDoss

When to go: May to September. Population:102. How to get there: By ferry from Porto Santo Stefano on Argentario. You should know: The exact borders of the Marine Park, there are heavy fines for breaking the rules. Photo by: Ruben_Sniper

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Near by Lake Maggiore in the foothills of the Alps, Lake Orta is a tranquil, often misty vision of scenic charm. Of the villages and tiny market towns that sit comfortably on its green, wooded hillside banks, Orta town is the prettiest and one of the oldest. It lies on the end of a promontory opposite the intriguing island 400 m offshore on which much of its reputation rests. Photo by: edwindejongh

Isola San Giulio is tiny – only 275 m long and 140 m wide, but crowded with buildings, towers and terraces. There are Benedictine monastery and seminary, the castle and Bishop’s Palace. But the largest building on the island is in fact the Basilica of St Giulio. Photo by: Wagman_30

When you arrive on the island, San Giulio’s beauty is magnificent with unexpected quiet. The short circular lane between the monastery and the sumptuous 18th century private villas lining the shore is even called ‘The way of Silence‘ and dotted with signs admonishing you to ‘Listen to the water, the wind, your steps’, ‘If you can be yourself, you are everything’. Photo by: gezzajax

When to go: Year round. Come for the festival of Ancient Music at the Villa Tallone during June, or the piano recitals on Sundays in September. Population: 110. How to get there: By ferry from Orta San Giulio, Omegna, Pella or any of the other lakeside villages. Photo by: gezzajax

Ischia is the largest of the islands in the Bay of Naples, and many people consider it to be more beautiful even than Capri to its southeast. Ischia is a volcanic island 10 km long and 7 km wide that rises to 788 m  at Monte Epomeo, which divides the island into two zones. The south and the west takes the brunt of hot dry winds from Africa, and cacti, agave and palms thrive in the sub-tropical landscape. In the northern shadow of Monte Epomeo, chestnuts flourish among the typical Mediterranean trees like holm oak, cypress, cork, almond and olives. Citrus groves scent the whole island. Despite of its high population and million of tourists, Ischia still has dozen of deserted beaches and coves for chillin’.People come for its thermal springs and volcanic mud treatments. Ischia has lots its jet-set exclusively since the 1960s when it epitomized the fashionable nation of ‘La Dolce Vita‘, but that has been replaced by a new kind of participatory glamour that draws in visitors. The island matches its towns and resorts to a wide variety of visitors’ expectations. Tranquil countryside walks, cafe-crawling, white sandy beaches, or 24-hour fashionable clubbing co-exist without tears. Ischia really is a holiday paradise.

When to go: March to November. Come at the end of the summer for two weeks of parades, concerts and general carousing. Population: 60, 335 (and six million visitors each year). Getting there: By hydrofoil from Naples Beverello or by ferry from Naples Beverello or Pozzuoli, to Ischia Porto. Photos: Google search.

Capraia is a wild and hilly island, the only volcanic one in the Tuscan Archipelago, Italy. A 300 to 400 m ridge divides it into two unequal slopes. On the west, sheer walls of rock are cracked into ravines and riddled with caves, to the east the slopes are in a series of shallow valleys down to the sea. Photo by: Ravello1

One part of the island is covered in brush with a few small villas and old farm buildings used barely in the summer. A Roman fortress overlooks the town, crumbling watchtowers dot the landscape, and ruined villas recall the Romans’ long romance with the island. The network of trails that hikers used today are 2,000 year-old Etruscan logging trails. Photo by: wenzday01

Nature has largely reclaimed Capraia, and most of the island, and the sea for miles around it, is part of a huge National Park and Marine Reserve. There’s no nightlife, no neon and no marketing scam to exploit the pristine Mediterranean flora and fauna. For visitors, the symbiosis of land, sea and people is like stumbling on a blueprint of how you want the Mediterranean to be. Photo by: Boga85

When to go: April to October – but July to August are both the hottest months and the most crowded. Population: 366. Getting there: By ferry from Livorno, or by private yacht. You should know: If you come by boat, make sure you don’t land within the environmental reserve, or use a drag anchor. Photo by: Boga85

Where the Tiber flows through Rome, there is a single island in its southern bend. Technically, Tiber Island is an eyot with an agglomeration of ancient fluvial silt and detritus. To Romans, it is th site of the oldest settlement in the area. As Rome grew across its seven hills, the island become first an isolation ward for the chronically sick, and then a place of healing and even cure. Today the church there is called St Bartholomew’s after its primary relics, and is enclosed by a massive basilica. Photo by: Sgommapiuma

The more you interest Tiber Island, the more you will be intrigued by small details. The pedestrian Ponte Fabricio, Rome’s oldest surviving bridge, connects it to the Campo Martio. Two four-faced Janus herms are mounted on its parapet – Janus is usually two-faced, looking both ways, and four-faced images guarded only the most important intersection. Look under the perimeter stairway at the downstream end to see the 1st century marble decoration of the island. Tiber Island is like one widespread commitment to its real meaning. Photo by: hops_76

When to go: Year-round. Population: 1 (officially the resident priest of St Bartholomew’s). How to get there: By car, from Trastevere via the restored 46 BC Ponte Cesito, to one of about 30 parking spaces near the piazza; or on foot, from the Piazza Monte Savello, near the Ghetto, via Ponte Fabricio. Photo by: Mailbags

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Pienza is a renaissance town near Siena, and it’s one of the beautiful hill top towns of the entire Tuscany. It was built by the order of Pope Enea Silvio Piccolomini in 1558 on top of the medieval castle of Corsignano, which marked the border between the possessions of Siena, Florence and Orvieto. Thanks to its position (in a panoramic position overlooking the Orcia river valley) Pienza was of great importance during the Middle Ages. 

The quite atmosphere of the center, the incredible landscapes of the countryside all around, a coffee sitting in the main square will be an unforgettable experience. In 1996 UNESCO designed Pienza as past of a World Heritage Site. The visit to the ancient hermitage of Pienza is probably one of the most fascinating and special experiences not included in the usual tourism routes in the area.

This charming hideaway on the Ligurian Sea is a favorite vacation spot of many Europeans tourists. Even back in Roman Times Portofino was called the world’s most charming port. It is one of the most photogenic fishing ports in the Mediterranean. Once a quiet fishing village, today Portofino is best known for beachside cliffs that are speckled with pastel-colored houses and its chic boutiques, fashionable resorts, luxurious hotels and first-rate sports facilities.

Most of the water along the coast is a protected area and it is forbidden to enter there. There are 20 dive sites and diving can be arranged through local dive agencies. Swimming is allowed only in certain areas and boating is restricted near some of the shoreline.

Tourists can enjoy with: windsurfing facilities, sailing, tennis, golf, hiking, and plenty of beach amenities. Take a relaxing walk through the unique beach or indulge yourself in the wonders of Ligurian gastronomy.

It is one of the most authentic corners of the Amalfi Coast, reckoned by many to be the most beautiful stretch of coastline in Europe. Praiano it was once the summer residence of the Doge, the dukes of the Amalfi Republic. It is a small town located between Amalfi and Positano, away from the most touristy areas and rich with history, culture, views and comforts.

Superb views of the coastline can be enjoyed from pleasant panoramic walks around Praiano, as well as from more demanding hikes above the town. Take the boat trip inside and you see a remarkable green light reflecting from the water and the rocks of the cave. One of Praiano’s most spectacular sights is the Parish church, dedicated to St. Luke, the Chiesa di San Luca Evangelista. Within the church are several side chapels, some treasured relics of the saint, and an attractive eighteenth-century majolica floor. 
 

The most popular hotels in Praiano are: Hotel Margherita, Hotel Onda Verde, Grand Hotel Tritone.