Romantic Hotels

If you're planning a proposal, look here. If you're not, look here anyway — people have been known to propose after a glass of champagne in some of these hotels. Romance, our editors hold, starts with the setting: mysterious architecture, blue water, the alley that opens onto the right square. The rest follows from the building.

The edit reaches around the globe. On Capri, Hotel Punta Tragara commands clifftop terraces above the Faraglioni rocks, with a Michelin-starred kitchen and Mediterranean restraint; in Venice, Ca Maria Adele fills a 16th-century Dorsoduro palazzo with Murano-glass chandeliers and five theatrical concept rooms. In Bruges, Hotel Heritage anchors an 1869 Delacenserie townhouse with twenty-two rooms and the Michelin-listed Le Mystique; in Marrakech, Riad Kheirredine hides a tranquil courtyard inside the Old Medina. In Lapland, Arctic Light offers Paavo Tynell-lit rooms in the 1949 civic hall above Rovaniemi; in California, San Ysidro Ranch keeps the old-world romance that has anchored American honeymoons for a century.

Bathrobes, honesty bars, infinity pools, the right view at the right hour. The edit below is the backdrop for the love story.