Gianluca Miserendino

🏠 Preferred Hotels & Resorts incorporates 19 new properties into its portfolio, featuring three Italian hotels: Armani Hotel Milano (Legend Collection), Bellerive Lifestyle Hotel in Salò (Lifestyle Collection), and The First Musica in Rome (L.V.X. Collection). Bellerive offers 39 rooms and suites with lake views, while The First Musica provides 24 river-view rooms designed by Studio Marincola. Preferred's CEO, Lindsey Ueberroth, announces the expansion across 12 countries in Q1 2025, highlighting a commitment to diverse luxury experiences.

🏖 OLM Nature Escape, an apart-hotel in Valle Aurina, Alto Adige, is a circular, energy self-sufficient structure with bioarchitecture in Caminata di Tures, Bolzano province. Offering 33 ApartSuites, 25 with private Finnish saunas, it encourages guests' freedom from conventional schedules. Utilizing larch wood, minimalist design by Andreas Gruber Architects, and renewable energy sources, it has earned the GSTC certification. It features a natural summer bathing pond and offers a weekly culinary program including APÉRO Dinner and theme nights curated by Chef Berni Aichner. Located in the Vedrette di Ries-Aurina Natural Park, it promises a tangible experience of freedom.

🌟 Hotel Sonnenhof, owned by the Winkler family in Falzes near Brunico, is set to reopen in June with a complete renovation and a new name: Solvie, meaning "the sunny way." The venue will feature a large sun-drenched garden, new rooms and suites, a new spa, infinity pools and baths, plus new restaurants and communal spaces. Solvie focuses on wellbeing and health, offering high-level culinary experiences without fixed dining times, extending breakfast to a 11:30 brunch, and providing restaurants open all day. Health and fitness are key, with facilities including an indoor yoga room, outdoor yoga platform, meditative room, gym, and cardio room. The spa features a "Skypool relax only" on the fifth-floor, a large infinity pool, a natural garden pond, an indoor pool with relax lounge and jacuzzi, as well as herbal and Finnish saunas, and an aromatic steam bath. Relaxation rooms are scattered throughout the garden and spa. Unique Solvie experiences include guided excursions, personalized bike tours, horseback riding lessons, golf, sport car tours, and skiing with a daily skibus to Plan de Corones every 15 minutes.

🏠 The historic Savoy in Florence, part of Rocco Forte Hotels, unveils its refurbished Irene restaurant and new Artemisia bar. The restaurant, inspired by Lady Forte, Sir Rocco's mother, promises authentic Italian cuisine and a love letter to Tuscany. Chef Fulvio Pierangelini curates a menu celebrating local flavors and seasonal ingredients, paired with a carefully selected range of regional wines. Artemisia bar, named after the revolutionary artist Artemisia Gentileschi, showcases a drink list by Maestro Salvatore Calabrese and Federico Pavan that reimagines the Florentine aperitif with truffle, Chianti, and leather touches.