The most luxurious spas in Italy and in the world

scheduled tribeWe cover spas that offer beauty treatments in unique locations in Italy and around the world. In Scotland you board a famous train to be pampered with Dior products. In the Alps you float suspended between earth and sky in a spa that is an architectural masterpiece. In Iceland you submerge in a lagoon on a floating mattress.

Most Luxurious Spa: On the Dyer Train in Scotland

One of the world’s most luxurious spas is one that traverses the Scottish Highlands. Welcome to the Belmond Royal Scotsman, an Edwardian masterpiece with mahogany inlaid staterooms and cozy tweed and wool furnishings (belmond.com). One compartment of the train now houses the new Dior Spa, in honor of Christian Dior’s love for Scotland, the backdrop of the fashion show made famous by the designer in 1955. From the window, like in a movie, images of rugged rocky provinces, glacial valleys, jagged coasts and castles once disputed between ancient clans, while you’re lying on a comfortable bed, drive yourself Rocking, shakes and hands by an expert massage therapist. In two cabins decorated with Toile de Jouy motifs, in the brand’s specialty burgundy, you can book a D-elements body treatment inspired by the Scottish landscape, the warmth of its land with a laying of warm semi-precious stones along the back And the energy that fresh air gives, dior.com. Onboard they define it as a once in a lifetime experience, a gift to give yourself once in a lifetime.

Most luxurious spas: in Austria with celebrities

Outside the majestic Alpine peaks of the Wilder Kaiser, inside the warmth of the woods and a surprise, a stable with magnificent Lipizzaner thoroughbreds separated from the hotel hall only by a glass that allows you to admire the show in peace . You walk into the Stanglwirt Bio Hotel in Göring am Wilden Kaiser, on the outskirts of Kitzbühel, Austria, and you instantly relax. But that’s only the beginning as a 12,000-square-metre spa awaits you, dedicated to wellbeing in a choice of spring water pools. And then aromatic saunas with spruce walls, salt caves and a natural lake where you can swim surrounded by aquatic plants, staglwirt.com. The tailor-made massage menu includes Ayurveda, aromatherapy and reflexology. But the reason so many celebs come here, with Gwyneth Paltrow in the lead, is also the treatments and cosmetics by Barbara Sturm, beauty therapist and skin guru to Kim Kardashian, Elle Macpherson, Hailey Bieber and Irina Shayk. The active principle of purslane that activates telomerase, the enzyme of immortality, makes its cosmetic line unique. Like hyaluronic serum which Sturm defines as “the white T-shirt of cosmetics.” Indispensable.

In South Tyrol, where you touch the sky

The cantilevered swimming pool that gives the sensation of being able to dive into the greenery of the valley was already a hallmark of the Hubertus Hotel in Valdaora in South Tyrol (hotel-hubertus.com). Now a luxurious spa has been added, which hangs between the blue sky and the vast panorama below. It is called heaven and hell because it is made of two parts. You first relax in the hot tub and panoramic showers on the floating platform. Then go down the stairs that lead to hell, but a pleasant hell with saunas, whirlpools, and ice rooms. And after these regenerating thermal shocks you are invited to take a walk in the Alpenreich Wellness Park, where the names of kings and princesses in the massage rooms are heroes of the legends of the Dolomites.

Guest of the Medici, in Tuscany

An ancient residence of the Medici family has been transformed into a five-star resort nestled in the Val d’Orcia, typical Tuscan countryside with rolling hills, rows of vineyards and centuries-old olive groves. It’s the relaxing view that opens before your eyes if you submerge yourself in one of the pools at the Fontewarde Lifestyle & Thermal Retreat. Starting with the Bioaquam, the large tub that welcomes you with massaging jets and sunken beds and then gazes out at the panorama of the valley (fonteverdespa.com). In addition to offering the benefits of the mineral-rich spring water at San Cassiano dei Bagni, thermal treatments have been prized for centuries, the spa offers a balancing pathway developed by a medical staff with beneficial effects on the nervous, endocrine and immune systems Is. And then there are treatments like the detoxifying facial with Crete Senesi mud, the aromatic massage with grape seed oil and the exquisite red scent. Finally, the Velvet Candle Massage: a revitalizing caress made with the softness of warm wax and the scent of aromatic oils. When it starts you wish it would never end.

From Iceland to Morocco, the Spas of One Thousand and One Nights

A lagoon of milky blue water, and the powerful color of black lava interrupted only by the green of the moss all around: this is what awaits you at the Blue Lagoon in Grindavik, Iceland. Massages are done here on floating mats (bluelagoon.com). Mamounia in Marrakech turns 100 and remains one of the world’s most exotic hotels where you can enjoy traditional hammams, private spas and massages in healing black soap, argan oil and rose water, mamounia.com