Terraced into the volcanic hillside above Foria, on the quieter northern flank of Ischia where the island's thermal gardens have drawn convalescents and aristocrats since the eighteenth century, Botania Relais & Spa is built around the premise that the landscape itself is the architecture. The whitewashed pavilions step down through a subtropical garden dense with palms, stone pines, agaves, and Mediterranean scrub, the whole composition visible from above as an almost camouflaged arrangement of flat roofs and pergolas dissolving into the green. Arcaded loggias and stuccoed arches reference the Ischian vernacular without tipping into pastiche, and the pool terrace — paved in pale stone, backed by a hillside of ilex and olive — has the unhurried geometry of a private estate rather than a hotel facility. Inside, two distinct decorative registers coexist. The older rooms carry a traditional Campanian warmth: pink-veined marble floors, deep-arched headboards upholstered in hunter green, toile-de-Jouy curtains in sage and cream tied back against balcony doors that open onto bay views. The refreshed garden rooms take a lighter direction entirely — white hexagonal floor tiles, botanical-print headboards in fuchsia and ochre, duck-egg lounge chairs paired with brass-framed tables. The restaurant moves between an arched dining room clad in island basalt stone and a reed-roofed terrace furnished with wicker seating and linen tablecloths, local glassware in sea-glass green lending colour against the neutral ground.

50min hydrofoil from Naples

48 Rooms in 10 villas set in 3 hectares of Mediterranean greenery for a relaxing wellness holiday. Botania Relais & Spat is situated just outside the picturesque town of Lacco Ameno, Ischia at only 500m distance, and 350m from the splendid sandy bay of San Montano and Negombo thermal spa gardens. The resort is composed by 10 villas of typical Mediterranean architecture, splendidly located in the resort's 3 acre gardens, rich in Mediterranean and native plants and flowers.