Mandarin Oriental, Milan

What the classifiers highlight

Four connected eighteenth-century palazzos hold 104 rooms around cobblestone courtyards, a twenty-minute walk from the Duomo and the Last Supper's home at Santa Maria delle Grazie. MICHELIN lists it as a Key hotel, Forbes rates it Five Stars, its highest. Seta, the restaurant, pulls from Lombardy, southern Italy, France and the Pacific alike.