The best design hotels in the world have a great emphasis on art and design concepts. So if you’re a design and also a travel lover, those are the best places to enjoy. On the best design hotels of the world, you’ll find charm, glamour and luxury in every little detail, with differentiated architectonical projects or installed in a historic building, you’ll certainly lack no reasons to fall in love with these unique places. It’s here that you can find the difference and the individuality.

Best Design Hotels: Pergola House

Pergola House is a guest house located right in the centre of Cascais that provides a unique journey through time and provides guests an enchanting experience with the scented and colourful garden. The construction dates of the late 19th century and features an architectural style with Mediterranean characteristics, a ground terrace, a pergola, to provide a perfect restful shade and the most beautiful photos from the garden. Pergola is different and the difference is in the details.

Best Design Hotels: Casa do Conto

Located in the heart of Porto, Casa do Conto (House of Tales) is a very charming building and a once in a lifetime experience. It is an innovative project that results of a restoration of a 19th-century Victorian home in order to provide the most demanding and discerning guests with a unique collision of poetry, raw concrete, and vintage Scandinavian pieces. If you are a poetry lover, you must look at the ceilings. That’s their most wonderful secret!

Best Design Hotels: Torre de Palma Wine Hotel

Born in 2014, Torre de Palma Wine Hotel, a member of Design HotelsTM, is inspired by the esteemed Basilii family, who were former inhabitants of the nearby Torre de Palma Roman ruins, and by Alentejo traditions. All this to provide its guests a home in the heart of Alentejo. Featuring elegant 19 rooms and suites, the hotel honors the typical Alentejo architecture with the whitewashed walls and extremely cozy rooms.

Best Design Hotels: Monverde Wine Experience Hotel

The Monverde Wine Experience Hotel is a wonderful regional wine hotel in a vaste estate, which promises you an unforgettable experience between 30 hectares, of which 22 are fully dedicated to the production of grapes for Quinta da Lixa green and sparkling wines. This hotel is simply perfect for wine lovers with a passion for eno and ecotourism. The serenity of these surroundings has inspired the architects, FCC Arquitetura, who have preserved the building’s heritage, cultural inheritance and natural landscape in Telões, Amarante.

Best Design Hotels: Bela Vista Hotel & Spa

Dated of 1918, the Bela Vista Hotel is surrounded by the most wonderful and breathtaking surroundings, a must-see spectacle. This luxury design hotel combines sophistication with hospitality and a historical building with the most modern requirements. The romantic aesthetic of the mansion was fully respected and kept and was the main inspiration for the decor. The beauty of the interior design is currently signed by Graça Viterbo, one of the leading design professionals in Portugal.