What are the quietest luxury resorts in Italy?

For genuine quiet, rather than Positano with a better pool deck, book small hotels that are the destination themselves. In Tuscany that means the farm and wine estates: Borgo Santo Pietro, 22 rooms in its own valley below Chiusdino; Castello di Velona, a castle above the Val d'Orcia; and Borgo San Felice, a whole hamlet inside a Chianti vineyard. On Lake Como it means Passalacqua's 24 rooms in a private park at Moltrasio, and Il Sereno on the east shore at Torno, away from the Bellagio and Varenna ferry docks. On the Amalfi Coast it is Monastero Santa Rosa, 20 rooms in a former monastery on the cliff between the towns rather than in one of them. In Sicily it is Monaci delle Terre Nere, 25 rooms on an organic estate on the slopes of Etna, and in the Dolomites, Aman Rosa Alpina in San Cassiano.

The pattern: quiet in Italy is bought with distance from a ferry dock, a funicular, or a name that appears on tote bags, and with a room count under about sixty. Our atlas holds 221 Italian properties, of which the supplier flags 75 for seclusion; the loudest thirty are the most requested, and the quietest thirty are the best reviewed afterward.