Escape abroad for Christmas

Buon Natale, in Italy

Experience an Italian Christmas in a beautiful 16th-century country-house hotel in Puglia. Take the hotel's Vespa to the nearby villages, where you'll find live nativities and Christmas markets selling artisanal goods, or visit the hotel's own nativity scene, set in a cave. Christmas Eve is the most important day in Italian celebrations, and you'll be served a traditional Italian Christmas meal, including fresh seafood, pasta and panettone, by the fireside before midnight mass in a local village. With temperatures in the mid-teens, on Boxing Day, you can soak up the sun by the hotel's beautiful heated pools or on the nearby beaches. Three nights from €262pp, B&B.

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Masseria Torre Coccaro, +39 080 482 93 10, www.masseriatorrecoccaro.com