• A visual journey through Italy's most stunning hotels — from Venice to Sicily
• Legendary hideaways: Villa d'Este on Lake Como, Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Il San Pietro on the Amalfi Coast, Palazzo Margherita in Basilicata
• Secret jewels including Locanda Cipriani on Torcello, Castello di Vicarello in Tuscany, and Masseria Moroseta in Puglia
• An accommodation guide and a dolce vita coffee-table inspiration in one — edited by Angelika Taschen

In Italy, art and life are entwined. This visual journey offers glimpses of rural landscapes, high culture, and divine food, all spied through the doorways and windows of the country's most stunning hotels. Gorgeous photographs of hideaways and homesteads from Venice to Sicily offer fabulous accommodation suggestions for your next dolce vita getaway.

To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Here, some of Italy's most amazing landscapes and diverse regions are honored — Tuscany, Umbria, the Amalfi Coast, and the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily.

Angelika Taschen takes us to hidden gems across the country, profiling each getaway through extensive photography and key information.

Hardcover, 23.8 x 30.2 cm, 2.39 kg, 360 pages. ISBN 978-3-8365-7805-9. Multilingual edition (English, French, German).