One moment worth living, each Sunday.

Week of June 8

A working Somerset estate set around a Georgian house and a walled garden, with two hotels, a Roman villa and a cyder press — quietly run, slowly farmed, and hand-built down to the apple labels.

Week of June 1

A castellated North Yorkshire country house on a twenty-thousand-acre family estate — Samuel's Restaurant in the oval room, a country club and spa set in the woods, a cookery school upstairs, and the longer English weekend in the dales.

Week of May 25

A Victorian country house in the Dee Valley, looking toward Snowdonia — twenty-two rooms, a working wine cellar, and Luke Selby's kitchen at Henry Robertson.

Week of May 18

A Georgian country house in Hampshire, restored slowly and farmed biodynamically, with two kitchens written by Skye Gyngell and a thatched-roof spa at the edge of the woods.

Week of May 11

A Victorian coaching inn in Braemar, restored by Manuela and Iwan Wirth and hung with serious art — Lucian Freud, Picasso, Bruegel, Zhang Enli — set inside the Cairngorms.

Week of May 4

A twelfth-century abbey returned to use as a thirty-room hotel above the Duero — Marc Segarra's Refectorio at its centre, the working bodega at its foot, the Santuario spa cut into the new wing.

Week of April 27

Fourteen woodland galpones above the Ría de Pontevedra, behind a two-Michelin-star kitchen written from the Atlantic edge — a Galician landscape hotel from chef Xosé T. Cannas.

Week of April 20

A 1702 manor of the Marqueses de Santa Coloma, restored as a five-star hotel in the Matarraña — eighteen rooms in pale Aragonese stone, the Atalaya del Tastavins kitchen, four outdoor gastronomic corners across the estate, and a long Aragonese pause at the edge of the Beceite mountains.

Week of April 13

A nineteenth-century coastal fortress on the south side of the Bay of Palma, restored as a thirty-room hotel — battlements, sentry rooms cut into the cliff, two restaurants and a private cove.

Week of April 6

A Relais & Châteaux wine retreat on the eastern slopes of Mount Etna — sixty-two acres of vineyard, citrus and lava-stone terraces shaped by Augustinian monks four centuries ago, restored by hand since 2007 by Guido Coffa and his family.

Week of March 30

A nineteenth-century masseria above Villa Castelli, between Brindisi and the Itria Valley — vaulted stone rooms, a long pool ringed by olive trees, and a kitchen that draws from the orchard at the gate.

Week of March 23

A medieval Tuscan hamlet between Florence and Arezzo, bought by Ferruccio Ferragamo in 1993 and restored over thirty years — sixty suites in the village and the Aie, three villas, an organic farm and winery across eleven hundred hectares.

Week of March 16

A thousand-year-old castle in the Umbrian hills, restored over three decades by the Bolza family — thirty-six suites in the keep, two restaurants, a vaulted bathhouse, and a thirty-seven-hundred-acre estate at the Tuscan border.

Week of March 9

A thirteenth-century borgo on three hundred Tuscan acres, with a working biodynamic farm, Ariel Hagen's Saporium at its centre, and a spa cut from the same stone as the village.

Week of March 2

A Bise-family auberge on Lac d'Annecy since the early twentieth century, its kitchen now kept by Jean Sulpice — two stars at the water's edge.

Week of February 23

The address on the square — gilded, unhurried, kept to the standard of a house that has hosted Paris for more than a century.

Week of February 16

A palace facing the Tuileries, with rooms that open onto the length of the gardens and the roofline of the Louvre beyond.

Week of February 9

A palace with a garden at its heart — a rare stillness on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and the rooftop pool with its view over the Sacré-Cœur.

Week of February 2

A riverside house behind the quiet stone of La Samaritaine, with rooms that hold the Seine and the Pont Neuf in the same frame.

Week of January 26

A five-star villa hotel inside Château La Coste — thirty-one suites between the vines, a contemporary art walk through the estate, and Florent Pietravalle's kitchen at Louison.

Week of January 19

Michel Guérard's country house in the Landes — a three-star kitchen, a thermal cure and a garden, held together by the same hand for half a century.

Week of January 12

A small hamlet of cottages and a manor in the Loire forest, two kitchens by Pierre Frindel and the châteaux at bicycle distance.

Week of January 5

A walled fourteenth-century château in the heart of Sauternes — Premier Cru vineyard, two Michelin stars under Jérôme Schilling, and the maison Lalique at every turn. A Relais & Châteaux address.