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10 best health and wellness retreats across Europe 2025 Leave it all behind with a trip that focuses on making you feel your best – Madeleine Spencer shares her top choices for treatments from popular resorts and lesser-known gems.
And, sure, a holiday in the traditional sense might offer opportunities to explore, reset and contemplate, but a wellness retreat, where you turn over your routine or diet or preconceptions (and sometimes all of the above) to another to organise, is designed to do so thoroughly.
This may be doctor-led retreats in Austria, regeneration in an Italian farmhouse, or a diet overhaul at an English countryside escape.
The reasons to take a breather from day-to-day life and hit a wellness retreat are manifold.
They do this in various ways, depending on where you go, and through different disciplines and philosophies.
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