Fasano Las Piedras Punta Del Este

Stone villas designed by modernist architect Isay Weinfeld sit low along the Maldonado river, close enough to Punta del Este's beaches to count, far enough to feel like you've escaped the whole circus. The Fasano group's Uruguayan resort holds a Michelin Key, and the formula here trades high-rise glamour for pastoral seclusion, with a pool cut directly into the rock face and a spa complex with an indoor pool. The crowd came to be left alone, tastefully.