Santa Barbara Eco-Beach Resort

Modernist villas built from rough local stone, their geometric shapes sitting hard against the north shore of São Miguel island in the Azores. This eco-resort has a beach club, a main restaurant leaning into Azorean seafood, and a bar with picture windows made for watching the Atlantic go dark. The kind of place where the surroundings do half the work, which is convenient because the other half is already sorted.