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If you want to escape from the daily grind and come back down to earth by just gently flapping your wings, you will find a carefully designed biotope near Lake Chiemsee where you can rediscover what you have lost.

There are countless ways to become a host, even for career changers, as Anke and Felix Krohmer’s journey demonstrates. Their recipe for success? A blend of passion, perseverance and a keen instinct – especially for the right architect.

In times when breathless living has become an attitude, an island sits on the Vigiljoch, which for 20 years has expressed its essence and offers what we all miss: the luxury of simply being.

In Ostholstein there is a fully preserved estate that is an impressive symbiosis of heritage listed and modern brick architecture, offering a holiday in the countryside and first-class musical enjoyment. 

With the Diringlo, an architect and an entrepreneur have preserved a historical gem of southern Bavarian residential culture, embedded in one of the most beautiful natural and cultural landscapes in Upper Bavaria.

Mountains and sea in a small area. Culinary discoveries paired with diverse landscapes for nature lovers and active holidaymakers: if you want to explore Slovenia, the Vipava Valley is the perfect starting point.

A shared vision, volcanic landscapes and an aperitif under Goethe’s palm tree. A holiday at B&B La Mugletta reveals distinctive architecture and a region that enchants with its quiet charm and cultivated gusto.

At the heart of lively Kastelruth there is a quiet house that has placed zeitgeist and a thoroughly essential architecture in front of the majestic Sciliar. The timeless presence of the rock massif is omnipresent, the holiday concept is wholesome, warm and grounding.

Off the beaten track, the boutique hotel in Western Allgäu combines subtly composed rooms with elaborate culinary delights and emphatic hosts. You will find plenty of peace here, but fortunately no events.

Rasmus Johnsen and Anders Petersen are modern settlers with urban souls and surfers’ hearts. The breathtaking wilderness of Denmark’s northwest coast became their creative catalyst for local projects with a cosmopolitan spirit: A co-working collective and two holiday houses that spark the lightness of being.

High in northern Germany, André and Sebastian Schäfer have lovingly restored a centuries-old storehouse on the Eiderstedt peninsula. Their guests can explore the Wadden Sea World Heritage Area and discover the immense freedom of the endless horizon.

The South Tyrolean architect Martin Gruber allows his thoughts to fly, pushes back the horizon and meets Oscar Niemeyer at the Copacabana. An ode to the creative power of imagination.

In the upper Inn valley rests a 300-year-old Engadine house. In all serenity, it awaits and decelerates guests who appreciate built and lived authenticity in the Central Alps.

At the foot of the Pyrenees, a Swiss architect has resurrected the Arcadia of a French industrialist couple in all its splendour. Castle suites, flats and a holiday home meet an enchanting park with mountain views. Bienvenue!

Wine architects and a poet's muse. With a beguiling panorama of Lake Orta in Piedmont, La Darbia sits relaxed above it all. As if incidental, the property pulls out just about all the stops of the good life: it's all the fault of the people involved here. And the lake's of course.

Two elaborate holiday homes on the Baltic Sea - reduced, modern and conceived with love for Japan and Scandinavia. Breathe a sigh of relief at the edge of a National Park, contemporary art included.

With courage, perseverance and great expertise in heritage conservation, a former knight's estate on the banks of the Elbe river near Dresden has been reawakened. Since then, history has experienced a new heyday - in a modern dress.

For years, we have been closely associated with the Czech designer Daniela Hradilová. We followed the creation of her second house, which has only just been published by us, almost in real time: Mezi Lukami - the making-of.

Repeat offenders - With "Tempel 74", hostess Evi Haller and her husband, architect Jürgen Haller, have once again created a holiday highlight in the architectural eldorado of the Bregenzerwald.

Holidays on the outskirts of the capital city and at the same time remote and dreamy - in a lake-rich park landscape of world heritage status. Alpine romance in Prussia, reinterpreted.

A successful triad of straightforward architecture, subtle aesthetics and wild nature - an inspiring place of cultural encounter in the Uckermark region.

Dietmar Silly, host of the PURESLeben holiday homes, has matured over the years into a kind of supervisor in all things relating to Southern Styrian hospitality culture and architecture.

Outside wild, unspoilt nature, inside a soft, warm and most comfortable shelter. A new beginning in Donegal.

A small cosmos in itself. Peace, nature and self-determined holiday bliss: Everything’s optional, nothing’s a must.

From the sun terrace of the Krone in Hittisau, the view sweeps over the central square of the small Bregenzerwald community as if from an opera box.

In the mid-1980s, architects John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin sought inspiration in Mallorca for a special project: a house based on tradition, yet anything but conventional.

Right in the centre of Lisbon, more precisely in the Baixa district in the heart of the old town, which is under a preservation order, and therefore very close to famous places such as the Praça do Comércio square on the banks of the Tagus, URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR has had a very popular holiday accommodation for many years: the Baixa House.

When talking to hostess Dr. Bettina Klein, who welcomes guests on an estate comprising a small hotel, a museum and a café in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, this immediately seems to be a sufficiently apt, albeit generalising description of the landlady herself.

With the accuracy and almost childlike enthusiasm of an archaeologist, Boris Kajmak reveals the history of Novigrad's old stone houses layer by layer.

The Ambach grooves, rocks and swings. It meditates, ponders and smiles silently. According to the constellation of guests, wishes and moods.

If you’re the wellness type or looking for a jet-set holiday, B&B Haidl-Madl Ferienwohnen isn’t the place for you. Here on the Bavarian-Bohemian border, there are so many things you won't find: noise, air pollution, heavy traffic, and agricultural monocultures. There’s no television in the house, no permanent accessibility, and quite deliberately no “events” put on by the hosts.

Directly on the idyllic Baltic Sea coast, less than 1km from the beach, you will find a very special kind of village in which a group of people from all walks of life have each realised their dream of planning and building their own holiday home.

In August 2018 the Danish Recharge House - project started, driven by a strong vision. The making of in pictures.

The Vulkaneifel (Volcanic Eifel) in western Germany is often underestimated as a tourist destination. Despite its good accessibility from the surrounding metropolitan regions and the Benelux countries, it is still far away from the major tourist flows.

When a holiday destination stays with you long after you’ve visited, but you can’t quite pinpoint why – well, then it's quite possible that you’ve been to visit the Tannerhof in Bayrischzell, Upper Bavaria. And it may be a sign that you should start trusting your instincts.

From the Spanish border to Faro stretches the quiet, untouched Sandalgarve - its beauty takes your breath away. Seja inspirado!

The Milchhof Arnstadt, a classic modernist monument from 1928, is currently part of the German GRAND TOUR DER MODERNE 2019 and an official partner of the Bauhaus100 programme.

The house is a midwife. It brings to light desires and needs that lie dormant in us but have no right to exist in “normal life”:

On the edge of the South Tyrolean wine village Kaltern, yet close to its old market square, there is an ensemble of two houses in a lush Mediterranean garden, emanating a very special aura.

High above Bruck at the Großglocknerstraße in the Austrian Pinzgau lives and works since 1687 family Unterberger. With their guests they share not only the fantastic location with a view of the Hohe Tauern, the Kitzsteinhorn and down into the Salzach valley. But also four architectural highlights up to a tree house, which happily combine tradition and modernity in very different ways.

Bildstein in Vorarlberg, Austria. This location with its view of Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine estuary will evoke breath-taking images in your mind even whilst planning your holiday there.

The Parkhotel Holzner in Soprabolzano is a place of contrasts that complement one another consistently in every area and create convincing synergies: body and soul. Art nouveau and fair faced concrete. Wild nature and urban flair. The glow of the Alps and the Orient. Big and small. The timeless and the timeworn.

The Grossglockner sits enthroned in the heart of the “High Tauern“, Central Europe’s largest national park. Even if it is surrounded by more than 300 other mountains over 3000 metres, it surpasses them all in height and majesty.

Once a farm, and from 1975 a guest house for citizens of former East Germany, the Seehotel am Neuklostersee near Wismar has been welcoming a wide range of guests from near and far for two-and-a-half decades.

Kathrin Schmuck is an architect and the owner of BUCHARCHITEKTUR. Since 2014 she has been designing award-winning books that cover every imaginable aspect of architecture: monumental monographs such as that…

For 15 years, Daniela Keil ran her own travel agency in Mannheim, organising luxury tours throughout the world. During this time, she was literally always on the move, discovering the most beautiful places on every continent.

Sicily. At the very name, associations and clichés still crowd the mind, lending the island and its inhabitants an enduring aura of the untouchable and of mysterious fascination.

The courage to face new things and constant change seems to be in the Rainers’ blood. Since Agnes und Willi Rainer opened a little bed and breakfast in 1964, the desire for spirited, innovative further development ...

The early morning view from the giant picture windows is one of endless brick façades, rail tracks and a yard, with an expansive sky looking down over it all. Before my eyes, artists wander in and meet the cameras of the day’s first tourists. ...

Am Pfarrhof 1, on a picturesque square in the ancient centre of Arnstadt, stands a set of buildings that are listed as historic monuments.

You just can’t help thinking of Rapunzel the first time you see this building. That said, this water tower was designed at the end of the 19th century for purely functional purposes. ...

In the village of San Giacomo, an old lady stands on a rise, and surveys a breath-taking and timeless natural scene.

The Maremma, the unspoilt, wild south of Tuscany is a hidden gem. Timeless rural landscapes take your breath away, right amidst it all lies a white ship...

Anke Nuxoll-Oster is a DIY enthusiast. She stumbled on her first house by chance, before devoting herself passionately to rescuing old buildings and letting them to guests. ...

A painter grandmother. Studio life. A crazy childhood in a free-thinking family of artists. Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik played with four hands. That was then. ...

Portugal has seven wonders. The Ria Formosa Nature Park on the Algarve is one of them and is as beautifully formed as the name suggests.

Italy is strewn with ruins. Ancient stones on which the country’s cultural heritage is built and which attract streams of tourists all year round to Paestum, Pompeii and Agrigento. ...

An old farmhouse in the Puster Valley in South Tyrol stands gracefully at the heart of a peaceful village, wearing its ultra-modern extension with dignified confidence. ...

It was meant to have been the south of France. Buying an old town house in Marseille or Cassis and converting it to a holiday home, in a place whose streets are not deserted once the tourists have left ...

The island of Møn is one of the most beautiful places in Denmark, its white chalk cliffs providing an impressive natural spectacle. Just 300 m from a beach, surrounded by birch trees, is the newest house from architect Jan Henrik Jansen. ...

The Ottmanngut Suite & Breakfast is outside the old city walls of Merano, just 300m from Vinschgauer Tor. This idyllic, cosy refuge nestles in verdant Mediterranean gardens with cypresses, citrus trees, palms and oleanders – a veritable Garden of Eden in the spa town of Merano.

The world’s largest tourism convention, ITB Berlin, supplies its trade visitors each year with tourism expertise on trends, technologies and marketing on the subject of travel and holidays. ...

Rügen is more than just an island. Indeed, it has many faces, from Cape Arkona through to Garz and from Schaprode through to Göhren: Wide fields with long avenues between them, beaches with fine white sand, cliffs and chalk formations ...

The Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Estate) in Berlin's district Britz is very popular among architects, historians and town planners, although Bruno Taut (unlike Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Hans Sharoun or Erich Mendelsohn for example) did not have a second career after WordWar II.

The Uckermark region with its rolling hills, woods and lakes has long been popular with nature-lovers, but has now also become a destination for those who appreciate good architecture. ...

In our turbulent times, travel has taken on a completely new meaning in recent months: while some are forced to leave their country to survive, others are looking forward to their annual holiday.

Hafnerleiten farm in Bad Birnbach, Lower Bavaria is just the place for couples who want to take some time out from the daily grind and enjoy remarkable architecture, wellness and culinary delights surrounded by natural beauty. ...

As I flew in over Lisbon it was all laid out before me – the city not only lies on the river Tagus but, like Rome and Istanbul, is also spread over seven hills. ...