A Luxury retreat by its very nature needs obviously to be luxurious, but to be a retreat it also needs to be hidden away, not easy to find, and somewhere you can feel totally relaxed and away from everyday pressures. La Bandita  in Tuscany Italy easily fulfils all these requirements.

If you decide to hire a car or even heaven forbid drive from another European country it is quite likely you won’t find La Bandita at the first or even second time of trying, indeed you will probably need to call La Bandita to get directions it is that well hidden away up a track needing four wheel drive.

You can stand outside La Bandita and look to all corners of the compass and you will see nothing but hills, some sheep and perhaps some sheepdogs. Try listening for the roar of traffic, or the sounds of other people in the vicinity, and you won’t hear much if anything at all.

That pretty well deals with the retreat aspect of luxury retreat, so now what about the luxury at La Bandita.........

A great place for an Italy vacation, or an Italian Honeymoon, is in a luxury hotel Puglia at The Torre Caccaro, which is a 16^th century Masseria converted in 2002 to a superb 5 star resort.

A Masseria was a sighting tower, built originally to avoid attacks from Turkish pirates and Saracens. It is now one of the premier 5 star hotels in Italy, and the perfect place for an Italian Vacation Package or an Italian Honeymoon for that matter.

The Villa le Scale on Capri has been often voted as one of the very best European honeymoon destinations, and from my own experience it is not only all of that, it is also in the top 10 romantic hotels in Europe.