Castello di Casole, A Belmond Hotel, Tuscany

What the classifiers highlight

A thousand-year-old aristocratic estate near Siena, restored with marble baths and modern wiring behind its old stone walls, carries both a MICHELIN Key and a Forbes Four-Star rating. Tosca, its restaurant, reinterprets Mediterranean cooking by season, and suites range from antique-filled Exclusive rooms to the more modern Oliveto category with its own terrace.