Welcome to Checking In , a review series in which our editors and contributors rate the best new (and revamped) luxury hotels based on a rigorous—and occasionally tongue-in-cheek—10-point system: Each question answered “yes” gets one point. Will room service bring you caviar? Does your suite have its own butler? Does the bathroom have a bidet? Find out below.

Splendido, A Belmond Hotel

Describe the hotel in three words: Dolce Vita glamour

What’s the deal?

Set on a hill overlooking , the jewel of the , the Splendido, A Hotel has been an icon of Italian hospitality for more than a century. It opened in 1901 in a 16 th -century Benedictine monastery—Renaissance monks and nuns always had the best real estate in —and became a haven for VIPs and celebrities in the 1950s and ’60s. T

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