— -- President Obama and six of the world's most powerful leaders will descend on Krün Germany Sunday for the G7 Summit. When they arrive, they will be surrounded by pure luxury. Nestled in a ...

Reporting from Elmau, Germany — When people who have been to Schloss Elmau meet, words tend to fail them. But they exchange a certain look that says it all. The hotel nests in the foothills of the ...

Tucked away in a forest in the Bavarian Alps, Schloss Elmau may be best known as a secluded luxury retreat (so secure that it hosted the 2015 G7 Summit) and as home to a world-class spa. But because, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was while sitting on our balcony at Schloss Elmau, deep in the Bavarian Alps, gazing at the lengthening ...

I was at Schloss Elmau, Bavaria’s A-1 hotel and spa. It sits alongside a 200-million-year-old rock. Long before our own integration problems, Earth’s European plate banged into Africa’s tectonic plate ...

It’s the elephants that provide the first clue. The symbol of Schloss Elmau, a luxury five-star hotel nestled in a storybook valley, isn’t a kitsch nod to tradition you might expect of a Bavarian spa ...

Visitors from around the world come to admire the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak in the Alps. But head east and you'll find yourself in a Bavarian Alpine idyll at Schloss Elmau's mountain lodge.

This week, the G7 summit in Germany will be held in the same hotel for the second time: Schloss Elmau. But why there? Perhaps it's because the hotel has some special features. It's time once again for ...

If I were king of the world, I would redraw the borders of Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland to create the Principality of Alpinia. The areas of those countries that nestle near to the ...