Antonia Windsor

Hotel address: Paseo de la Castellana, 22, 28046 Madrid, Spain
Website: rosewoodhotels.com/villa-magna
Price from: €700
Why book?
To hobnob with well-heeled Madrileños in a residential-style smart hotel in the smartest part of Spain’s capital city.
Set the scene
On a tree-lined boulevard in the ritzy Salamanca district, the dull grey facade of this modernist building has had a makeover by Spanish architect Ramón de Arana. Now, you walk up white stone steps to a building that epitomises mid-ce...

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Verona is the city of love, or La Cittá dell'Amore in Italian, mainly because it was the fictional home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
But huddle with your loved one at a terrace table in the central Piazza Bra, as the sun washes the ancient stone of the Roman amphitheatre in tones of rose and gold, and you would feel romantic even if the famous star-crossed lovers had never set foot in the city.
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