TRAVEL
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Costa Smeralda
Home to glittering bays, fragrant pine groves and charming villages, this stretch of coastal Sardinia is seriously beautiful
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Model Pritika Swarup has been spotted in Sardinia
STAY
Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel is an exercise in elegant simplicity, moments from one of Costa Smeralda’s most beguiling bays. With their chalky-white walls, Italian linens and terracotta tiles underfoot, the bedrooms (3) feel blessedly cool in Sardinia’s summer heat, and picture windows frame ravishing vignettes of the rippling water (2). Expect to spend much of your stay idling beside the pool, sipping crisp local white wine and watching butterflies flit between the blowsy hydrangea bushes.