16th-century farmhouse in Umbria
Villas in Italy, chosen by hand

The few houses worth the journey.

Destinations

Where the houses are

Puglia

Puglia

The sun-baked heel of Italy: whitewashed villages, ancient olives, two seas.

  • Puglia

    The sun-baked heel of Italy: whitewashed villages, ancient olives, two seas.

  • Piedmont

    At the foot of the Alps: mirror-still lakes, Barolo vineyards, quiet grandeur.

  • Umbria

    The green heart of Italy: quiet villages, saintly hills, slow time.

  • Lazio

    The country around Rome: umbrella pines, lake water, the city half an hour away.

  • Campania

    The Cilento, south of the Amalfi Coast: a national park, hill villages, a turquoise coast.

Around the house

The cook, the guide, the winemaker

Around every house sits the part that is hard to find on your own: the cook who decides the menu at the market that morning, the family that has worked the same vines for four generations, the guide who knows which door is worth knocking on.

Ask the desk, in the same message as the house.

The Journal

Italy, written slowly

A whitewashed masseria wall with a terracotta amphora and a curtained doorway, near Ostuni

Places · Puglia · 11 September 2026

The masserie of the Valle d’Itria

Fortified farmhouses, built to keep the world out, now open their courtyards for the summer. What the walls were for, and what it is like to sleep behind them.

The guides

Italy, region by region, in writing

Where to stay, what to eat and the right week to go. One is ready; three are on their way.

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The Italy Travel Guide

Six regions: where to stay, what to eat and when to go.

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