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Slow Escapes - Rural retreats for conscious travelers
Rural retreats for conscious travelers in Slow Escapes by Clara Le Fort
Slow Escapes explores a new generation of hotels, guesthouses, and hospitality venues that have traded the bustle of cities for the peace of remote and regional areas. Combining slow living with responsible tourism, these rural retreats are engaging with the land, revitalizing communities, and helping preserve culture and tradition—all through a new kind of travel.
A timeless property in the heart of the Sesi Archaeological Park on the island of Pantelleria, Parco dei Sesi is an organic farm set within a megalithic stone village. The architecture blends in seam- lessly with its surroundings and 13 luxury rooms set within original dammuso houses invite guests to live the slow life in the most natural of environments.
On the grounds of The Newt, “The Story of Gardening” exhibition explores the concept of the garden through time and the impact it has had on culture. Find out more about this in Slow Escapes a book by Clara le Fort and gestalten.
Parco dei Sesi offers guests the opportunity to explore the rugged volcanic landscape of the archaeological park in which the retreat is situated. This place is featured in Slow Escapes by Clara Le Fort.
The Newt in Somerset is a luxury hospitality project that combines legendary gardens, farms, orchards, and vegetable plots with a Georgian country house and a historic farm hamlet. This beautiful hotel is featured in Slow Escapes by gestalten.
A thoughtful guide to a new kind of travel, Slow Escapes explores hotels, guesthouses, and hospitality venues that are reinvigorating rural areas by fostering meaningful connections between people and place.
Guests staying at this hotel in Provence have the choice of eating inside the restaurant or in the garden—a popular spot in summer, shaded by canopies.
The Newt in Somerset  is an exclusive country estate with magnificent woodland and gardens, this unique place is featured in Slow Escapes by gestalten and Clara le Fort.
Storfjord Hotel is a small, timber, luxury hotel overlooking the Storfjord and Sunnmore Alps on the western coast of Norway. Nestled in the woods, it takes shape as a cluster of Norwegian cabins and wooden houses with 30 rooms for guests scattered among them. Preserving tradition and creating a mountain-lodge feel, the roofs of the cabins are covered in green grass and moss.
This project committed to sustainability and local traditions in Romania is featured in the book Slow Escapes. Set on a 100-hectare (245-acre) estate in the northwestern Carpathian Mountains of Romania, Şesuri comprises a handful of traditionally built houses, a farm, and countless animals.
Parco dei Sesi offers guests the opportunity to explore the rugged volcanic landscape of the archaeological park in which the retreat is situated. Explore it with Clara le Fort in Slow Escapes by gestalten.
Casa Catuna, traditionally plastered with loam and painted blue, sits in a meadow with cherry, plum, and apple trees. Beside it stands a traditionally furnished barn. Discover more in Slow Escapes.
There is a sense of slowing down at Ansitz Hohenegg. There are no distractions other than the sights and sounds of nature: rustling trees, birdsong, and a distant waterfall. Find out more about this guest house in Slow Escapes by gestalten and Clara le Fort.
Casa Catuna, traditionally plastered with loam and painted blue, sits in a meadow with cherry, plum, and apple trees. Beside it stands a traditionally furnished barn. Clara le Fort visited Casa Catuna and wrote about it in her book, Slow Escapes.
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Slow Escapes

Rural Retreats for Conscious Travelers

Explore a new generation of hotels, guesthouses, and hospitality venues that have traded the bustle of cities for the peace of remote and regional areas.

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A thoughtful guide to a new kind of travel, Slow Escapes explores hotels, guesthouses, and hospitality venues that are reinvigorating rural areas by fostering meaningful connections between people and place. Drawing upon principles of the slow movement, these places embrace ideas of community, sustainability, and seasonality, and are involved in the preservation of heritage, culture, and tradition.

From an 18th-century sheep farm reimagined as a guest house in the far north of Iceland to a new-age finca in the heart of Andalusia; from a homestead-turned-farm-and-fermentory in the Catskills to the Fogo Island Inn, a social enterprise and hotel set on an island off an island in the North Atlantic; read the stories behind the places that are changing the way we vacation—for the better.

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