Photography courtesy of Bulgari Hotel Milano — © Richard Powers
The Long Read — Issue 02
The Stay · Milan
The Bulgari garden, and the strange mercy it offers in summer
There is a garden in the middle of Via Montenapoleone, behind walls that most people on that street do not know exist. It belongs to the Bulgari Hotel Milano, and in summer it performs a function no amount of room-service or excellent air conditioning can replicate: it gives you back the sense that the city is optional.
Ten thousand square feet of private green, in one of the most commercially dense streets in Europe. The Bulgari has understood something essential about luxury hotel design — that the rarest amenity in a great city is not a view. It is distance.
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