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Semaine du 8 juin
The Newt in Somerset
A working Somerset estate set around a Georgian house and a walled garden, with two hotels, a Roman villa and a cyder press — quietly run, slowly farmed, and hand-built down to the apple labels.

Semaine du 1 juin
Swinton Estate
A castellated North Yorkshire country house on a twenty-thousand-acre family estate — Samuel's Restaurant in the oval room, a country club and spa set in the woods, a cookery school upstairs, and the longer English weekend in the dales.

Semaine du 25 mai
Palé Hall
A Victorian country house in the Dee Valley, looking toward Snowdonia — twenty-two rooms, a working wine cellar, and Luke Selby's kitchen at Henry Robertson.

Semaine du 18 mai
Heckfield Place
A Georgian country house in Hampshire, restored slowly and farmed biodynamically, with two kitchens written by Skye Gyngell and a thatched-roof spa at the edge of the woods.

Semaine du 11 mai
The Fife Arms
A Victorian coaching inn in Braemar, restored by Manuela and Iwan Wirth and hung with serious art — Lucian Freud, Picasso, Bruegel, Zhang Enli — set inside the Cairngorms.

Semaine du 4 mai
Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine
A twelfth-century abbey returned to use as a thirty-room hotel above the Duero — Marc Segarra's Refectorio at its centre, the working bodega at its foot, the Santuario spa cut into the new wing.

Semaine du 27 avril
Hotel Pepe Vieira
Fourteen woodland galpones above the Ría de Pontevedra, behind a two-Michelin-star kitchen written from the Atlantic edge — a Galician landscape hotel from chef Xosé T. Cannas.

Semaine du 20 avril
Torre del Marqués
A 1702 manor of the Marqueses de Santa Coloma, restored as a five-star hotel in the Matarraña — eighteen rooms in pale Aragonese stone, the Atalaya del Tastavins kitchen, four outdoor gastronomic corners across the estate, and a long Aragonese pause at the edge of the Beceite mountains.

Semaine du 13 avril
Cap Rocat
A nineteenth-century coastal fortress on the south side of the Bay of Palma, restored as a thirty-room hotel — battlements, sentry rooms cut into the cliff, two restaurants and a private cove.

Semaine du 6 avril
Monaci delle Terre Nere
A Relais & Châteaux wine retreat on the eastern slopes of Mount Etna — sixty-two acres of vineyard, citrus and lava-stone terraces shaped by Augustinian monks four centuries ago, restored by hand since 2007 by Guido Coffa and his family.

Semaine du 30 mars
Masseria Le Lamie
A nineteenth-century masseria above Villa Castelli, between Brindisi and the Itria Valley — vaulted stone rooms, a long pool ringed by olive trees, and a kitchen that draws from the orchard at the gate.

Semaine du 23 mars
Il Borro
A medieval Tuscan hamlet between Florence and Arezzo, bought by Ferruccio Ferragamo in 1993 and restored over thirty years — sixty suites in the village and the Aie, three villas, an organic farm and winery across eleven hundred hectares.

Semaine du 16 mars
Castello di Reschio
A thousand-year-old castle in the Umbrian hills, restored over three decades by the Bolza family — thirty-six suites in the keep, two restaurants, a vaulted bathhouse, and a thirty-seven-hundred-acre estate at the Tuscan border.

Semaine du 9 mars
Borgo Santo Pietro
A thirteenth-century borgo on three hundred Tuscan acres, with a working biodynamic farm, Ariel Hagen's Saporium at its centre, and a spa cut from the same stone as the village.

Semaine du 2 mars
Auberge du Père Bise
A Bise-family auberge on Lac d'Annecy since the early twentieth century, its kitchen now kept by Jean Sulpice — two stars at the water's edge.
Semaine du 23 février
Ritz Paris
The address on the square — gilded, unhurried, kept to the standard of a house that has hosted Paris for more than a century.
Semaine du 16 février
Le Meurice
A palace facing the Tuileries, with rooms that open onto the length of the gardens and the roofline of the Louvre beyond.
Semaine du 9 février
Le Bristol Paris
A palace with a garden at its heart — a rare stillness on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and the rooftop pool with its view over the Sacré-Cœur.
Semaine du 2 février
Cheval Blanc Paris
A riverside house behind the quiet stone of La Samaritaine, with rooms that hold the Seine and the Pont Neuf in the same frame.

Semaine du 26 janvier
Villa La Coste
A five-star villa hotel inside Château La Coste — thirty-one suites between the vines, a contemporary art walk through the estate, and Florent Pietravalle's kitchen at Louison.

Semaine du 19 janvier
Les Prés d'Eugénie
Michel Guérard's country house in the Landes — a three-star kitchen, a thermal cure and a garden, held together by the same hand for half a century.

Semaine du 12 janvier
Les Sources de Cheverny
A small hamlet of cottages and a manor in the Loire forest, two kitchens by Pierre Frindel and the châteaux at bicycle distance.

Semaine du 5 janvier
Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey
A walled fourteenth-century château in the heart of Sauternes — Premier Cru vineyard, two Michelin stars under Jérôme Schilling, and the maison Lalique at every turn. A Relais & Châteaux address.
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