Art Hotels

Capri's south-eastern tip, at the far end of Via Tragara. The hotel looks straight out at the Faraglioni, the three rock stacks that rise from the sea off this corner of the island. It began life as a private villa, and its design is credited to Le Corbusier.

Colour carries much of the experience. Ochre and terracotta walls, cool tiled floors, terraces stepped down the cliff with pools set into the rock. There is no gallery to tour. The architecture and the view are what you came for.

• Cliffside terraces
• Villa architecture
• Faraglioni view
• Sea-facing rooms

Wanås is a working estate in northern Skåne: a castle, an organic dairy farm and beech woods. The hotel occupies the old farm buildings. Step out after breakfast and you are already in the sculpture park.

That park, Wanås Konst, has been commissioning site-specific work for decades. Pieces turn up in clearings, along paths and inside outbuildings, and they change as new commissions arrive. Indoors the tone is calm, with whitewashed walls, wood and Scandinavian furniture. The restaurant draws on the farm and the region around it.

• Sculpture park
• Converted farm buildings
• Rural estate
• Restaurant on site

Two hotels share one address in Basel's old town. In the Kunsthotel, each room is handed to an artist and becomes a single installation you can sleep in. The Galerie Hotel next door works more like an exhibition, with art hung through its rooms and replaced over time.

Below ground, a stretch of the medieval city wall has been kept and opened to view. The house also runs a small theatre, a restaurant and a wine shop. Taken together it feels like a cultural venue that happens to have beds.

• Artist-made rooms
• Old town
• Medieval wall below
• In-house theatre