Castelfalfi is the largest golfing venue in Tuscany by a clear margin — 27 holes across a 2,700-acre estate an hour north of Volterra, built around a medieval borgo and castle that watch over the fairways from a hilltop. The…

Terme di Saturnia is built above a spring that has flowed at a constant 37.5°C for more than 3,000 years, since before the Etruscans — a natural phenomenon so old it has its own mythology, Saturn’s thunderbolt striking a volcanic…

Monte Argentario is technically an island, tethered to the Tuscan mainland by two narrow sand spits enclosing the Orbetello Lagoon — a genuinely different geography from anywhere else on the Tuscan coast, and the setting for Argentario Golf & Wellness…

The southeast corner of Sicily doesn’t get the same attention as Taormina or the Aeolian Islands, and that’s precisely its appeal. Ragusa, Modica, Noto, and Scicli — the province’s UNESCO-listed Baroque towns, rebuilt in golden limestone after the 1693 earthquake…

In the late 1960s, the Aga Khan identified the peninsula between the bays of Cala di Volpe and Pevero, on Sardinia’s northeast coast, as the ideal setting for the island’s first golf course — one piece of a wider vision…