Castello di Reschio works brilliantly as a hotel and does all the things that a top hotel must do. (Is there a chicer palm-court bar, a more astonishing spa, or a lovelier swimming pool in rural Italy? Or anywhere?)

Gorgeously romantic, Hotel Castello di Reschio occupies a thousand-year-old renovated castle, sitting within an ancient estate that covers thousands of acres of pretty valleys and forestland.

The Bathhouse is a unique wellness space suspended in time, with its original stone walls decorated with oil paintings. Here guests can relax in privacy for up to four hours at a time, enjoying spa treatments in front of a roaring fire before bathing in bathtubs covered with linen sheets.

The estate draws on the good food, good wine and natural setting that Italian poet Carducci described as the green heart of Italy.

Rural Italian splendor with soul, style, and a conscience.