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"IT WAS LATE APRIL, AND AMALFI'S LEMON TREES WERE BLOSSOMING" The Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, an austerely beautiful, scrubbed limestone palace clinging to the side of a hill, was an appealingly easy escape. We carried cups of rich, not-too-sweet Sfusato Amalfitano lemonade into the grounds. Gardens arranged with lawns, rose borders, half-­concealed hammocks, and citrus trees fanned beneath the palace like giant steps. Wisteria vines dropped petals from the pergolas, outshone by the punch-pink, first-bloom bougainvillea. The best hotels and resorts in the world: The Gold List 2023 | Condé Nast Traveller