Beautiful views (31 properties found)

Sleeps: 2 to 3

Perched high in the Apuan Alps, above Camaiore and Pietrasanta, Argentone looks out over stunning views of the Mediterranean sea, all the way to Corsica. It is set in a fold above the village of S.Anna di Stazzema, a famous centre of Partisan resistance during the second world war, the story recently told in a film by Spike Lee.

Sleeps: 12 (Multiple properties at this location)

Three apartments and pool in a restored farmhouse. In an inspiring panoramic position, facing across endless unspoilt countryside dotted with vineyards, forests and dramatic hills, Bellavista is a newly restored stone farmhouse below the Tuscan hill village of Radicondoli.

Sleeps: 8 to 10

Brogino is a large country house in Chianti, its already lyrical setting enhanced by the spectacular medieval Abbey - Badia di Passignano - which faces it from a mile away across vine and olive clothed hills. The garden, with flowers and shrubs nestling amongst the rocks and sandy soil of the area, merges imperceptibly into the olive groves beyond.

Sleeps: 4 (Multiple properties at this location)

The charming apartment Camelia has a furnished patio at its entrance, shaded by a conker tree. At Radicondoli, about 1 km away, you will find restaurants, Summer music festival, bank, post office, internet point.

Sleeps: 8

This wonderful Umbrian villa, set nicely near an olive grove, turns out to be a large open-plan house on three levels with an inner courtyard, furnished patios and views that cause you to breathe more deeply. It overlooks the Apennine Mountains on one side and villages atop the Umbrian hills on the other.

Sleeps: 4 to 6

Argento has been beautifully restored by the London based owner and is a stylish retreat, either as a base for invigorating mountain walks, a welcome home after a day by the beach only 25 minutes away, or as a restoring refuge from city life. Sitting in the Jacuzzi on the large terrace, gazing out of the sea over 600 metres below, worldly cares fade into insignificance.

Sleeps: 2

Within easy walking distance of two golden beaches, Casa Fiori is a lovely apartment on the ground floor, offerring a beautiful view over the sea and the Bay of the Poets in Liguria.

Sleeps: 4 to 6

Casa Letizia is located just 100 yards from Lerici Castle. Like most Ligurian houses, this delightful house is organised on four floors, built directly on a cliff overlooking the Bay of La Spezia.

Sleeps: 4 to 5

High on the side of a hill, looking out over the folds of the Chianti landscape, Casa Silvia is an enchantingly simple house, with terraces and gardens ranged around it allowing you to follow the sun or avoid it. This is a house designed for reading, sipping wine and setting the world to rights, relaxed in an armchair watching the sun change the colours of the hills as it sinks in the distance.

Sleeps: 6

Honey coloured farmhouse overlooking the "inland sea" of Trasimeno. A large, honey-coloured stone farmhouse in a beautiful position overlooking Italy's "inalnd sea" of Lake Trasimeno.

Sleeps: 3 (Multiple properties at this location)

The views from this house are beautiful, and guests may reach the swimming pools and the rest of the Montestigliano estate by walking up delightful pathways through the olive groves.

Sleeps: 4 (Multiple properties at this location)

With its entrance through a small furnished loggia at the front of a farmhouse, Erica is on the first floor and enjoys wonderful views of the panorama. Erica has a large kitchen living room with a beautiful fireplace rescued from an old villa.

Sleeps: 4 to 5

Il Tartufo is a old stone house, that has been beautifully converted by its owner into a magical hideaway, with 2 terraces and a precipitous garden overlooking beautiful views of the Apennines. The house is located North of Lucca, a region of Tuscany that is still little explored: The Garfagnana.

Sleeps: 2 (Multiple properties at this location)

La Sacrestia is a romantic ground floor apartment which opens onto a wide grassy terrace overlooking the estate's olive groves.

Sleeps: 12 to 14

Sitting high on a 15-hectare wooded hill overlooking the Gulf of Follonica, La Vedetta's bold cinnabar facade enlivens even a blue sky and looks forever out to sea. This is a place to come to breathe deeply, for there are distant panoramas and delightful details, but it is also a place to come to be pampered.

Sleeps: 8

Standing on a hilltop 600m above sea level, in a fabulous, isolated position in the wild and wooded High Maremma countryside, west of Siena, Le Tanelle is a large, square, farmhouse, sensitively converted by its American architect owner. It has extraordinary views right across the countryside as far as San Gimignano.

Sleeps: 6

This charming house is a part of the large estate of La Collina, on the border of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, and has been in the same family for over 400 years. Set on a small ridge of its own, the house looks out towards Tuscany with wonderful views over the ridges of the Apennines.

Sleeps: 6

High above the sea, Nicco's house enjoys views of the whole bay, and further towards Portovenere and the end of the Cinque Terre. This is undoubtedly a beautiful house to stay in: it combines simplicity and understatement with a stunning view, a pool that melts into the sea on the horizon and a real sense of privacy.

Sleeps: 4 (Multiple properties at this location)

All on the ground floor, the charming apartment Olivo has one entrance just above the gardens leading down to the pool, and another into the double bedroom at the far side of the house. The views from the swimming pool are wonderful.