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A little food for the soul should form an essential part of everyone’s diet, and a cultural getaway spent exploring museums and the arts provides the perfect main course. Combined with a luxury hotel break, it makes for a tasty proposition, so read on as we list nine essential cultural getaways around the globe.

Head for the hills, as they say, with a holiday at one of these nine properties set on or in amongst magnificent mountains.

There are those holidays where you just want to sit by the hotel pool with a steady stream of cocktails and leave it at that, but when you want to step that up with a side of unconventional, these seven properties have your back with spectacular experiences to make your Instagram followers insanely jealous, amongst other things.

Lazy week at the beach, big city cultural excursion or Disney World—here’s your Spring Break guide to family getaways. The eight North American and European properties herein all have suites and extras to accommodate kids, but offer starkly different settings and experiences—poll the clan and make your choice.