All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. Consider the Gold List the answer to the question our editors get asked more than any other: what are your favourite places to stay? Our annual collection, passionately selected by our international team, reveals which seaside resort we return to every August and the city hotel that gets everything right.
See the full Gold List here. Cap Rocat, in my opinion, is the jewel of Marugal, the Spanish hotel collection. The intimacy here is absolute; nothing stands between you and the immense sea. And the hotel boutique includes its own collection of Mediterranean-inspired garments in linen and cashmere as well as a carefully selected range of handicrafts, candles, and cosmetics. But if you need total seclusion, the spa is dug 39 feet underground and capable of transmitting peace few places in the world can.
Be warned: The saltwater pool will make you forget everything else outside Cap Rocat. There are so many details at this hotel that you won't see them all the first time.
And that's why you'll come back. David Moralejo. The former customs house for the Papal States was built in as a hunting lodge by the five-pope-strong Orsini family, once owners of the adjacent castle.
In , American oil tycoon Paul Getty purchased the place. He also hired art historian Federico Zeri to furnish his home with papal velvets and ecclesiastical antiques like church prie-dieux and sacristy furniture. Last year saw painstaking renovations of both the Roman mosaics and the exterior, and this year there's been the addition of a gym and a new focus on ancient Roman recipes.
