The most popular houses in 2023 – Part 4: Best guest feedback

As we do every year, in mid-January we publish the holiday homes that our readers particularly liked last year.

In part 4, you will find the holiday homes with the best guest feedback. Due to the different sizes of the accommodations, these are randomised below.

Apartment // Holiday home

Palazzo Marconi

La grande bellezza. Palazzo Marconi in the Salentine town of Corigliano d’Otranto takes you back to a bygone era, and not just because of its name. The atmosphere of the South Italian turn of the century still permeates the stylishly renovated palace.

Apartment // Bed & Breakfast

Corte Campioli

Old Country House, new life: That’s the motto at Corte Campioli, a 150-year-old country house in the Marche region. Historical, rustic charm meets modern architecture and timeless design.

Bed & Breakfast

SPOOR.62

Bed & Breakfast in an old train station: Once the legendary Pullman trains steamed along the Belgium village of Moere on their route between Ostend and Paris.

Apartment

Tempel 74

Temple 74 in Mellau in the Bregenz Forest is a new project by Evi and Jürgen Haller. The Tempel 74 apartment buildings too skilfully combine tradition and modernity, as well as superb architecture and craftsmanship.

Apartment

Meisterzimmer

The old cotton mill in Leipzig is a melting pot for creative professionals. Numerous studios, galleries, workshops, a cinema, several theatres and shops have taken over this large factory site, located four kilometers away from the city centre.

Apartment // Bed & Breakfast

Loblocher Hof

Loblocher Hof is a winery built in 1841 in the picturesque wine village of Gimmeldingen on the edge of the Palatinate Forest and offers apartments with a mix from countryside ambience and modern elements.

Apartment

Alte Säge

An old sawmill on the Austrian Weissensee has been extensively renovated and is now home to six extraordinary apartments.

Apartment // Holiday home // Resort

Borgo Tranquillo

Le Marche in central Italy is not as well known as nearby Tuscany, but is a hot tip for travelers in Italy. The Borgo Tranquillo looks traditional from the outside, but inside it has a modern loft style with individually designed apartments.

Apartment // Holiday home

Ickelhaus

The Ickelhäuser, three listed farmhouses in the Franconian town of Ickelheim, invite you to spend your holidays in a historical ambience. Carefully dismantled and properly renovated, the original appearance of the houses was largely restored.

Apartment

Francocci 7

On a hill in Umbria, the green heart of Italy, lies the Francocci 7 estate with sweeping views over the countryside. The former Fatttoria has been renovated and extended with modern architecture.

Bed & Breakfast

La Mugletta

La Mugletta is a modern B&B in the Euganean hills of Northern Italy, not far from Padua, Vicenza and Venice. The interplay of nature and architecture was integral to the design of the building.

Apartment // Holiday home

Ferienbox

The large letters on the facade reveal that the black box, set on a hillside on the northern shore of Lake Constance, is a holiday home. From the entrance side the house makes a rather closed impression, but on the lake side it opens with large windows towards the garden.

Holiday home // Hotel

Hofgut Hafnerleiten

Pure deceleration: In the midst of the Lower Bavarian picture postcard landscape, the Hofgut Hafnerleiten (Hafnerleiten Estate) offers a retreat in harmony with nature that combines the elements in a down-to-earth and architecturally subtle way.

Holiday home

Baix de S`Era

BAIX DE S’ERA is a stylish place for a holiday in Mallorca away from mass tourism. The owners actually wanted to build a bungalow, but due to the building regulations this was not possible.

Apartment // Holiday home

Ansitz Hohenegg

At Ansitz Hohenegg you can leave everyday life behind you. This former farmstead on a mountain ridge in the Allgäu is surrounded by high spruces on a sunny clearing and promises pure relaxation, thanks simply its solitary location amidst nature.

Apartment

Schmidhuber

On the outskirts of Tabing, a small village near Bavaria’s Chiemsee, the outbuilding of an historic farmhouse has been replaced by modern timber architecture.

Apartment // Holiday home

Casa Giromet

Casa Giromet is situated in a beautiful panoramic position in the middle of the Moscata region in rural Piedmont. The old stone farmhouse, which had almost turned into ruin, was rebuilt over more than two years and restored with great attention to detail.

Apartment

Principe Amedeo

Authentic southern Italian way of life in the historic heart of the Apulian town of Galàtone. The apartment Principe Amedeo is located on the first floor of the Palazzo Nobile, an extension to the small church of San Giovanni Battista from the 17th century.

Apartment

Iselhof

Mountain world and city life, tradition and modernity – a holiday at Iselhof in Lienz in East Tyrol has many facets. You live in the midst of greenery, but it only takes a few minutes to walk to the centre of the small town.

Holiday home // Resort

Au Perier

Au Perier, situated in the Dordogne in southwest France, is like a tiny, relaxed village: four houses, a central square, a pool, an open barn and a vegetable garden.

Here you will find the other parts of the most popular houses 2023:

Part 1: New entries on HOLIDAYARCHITECTURE

Part 2: International houses

Part 3: Houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland