Category: Destinations

  • The Secret Gardens of Tuscany

    The Secret Gardens of Tuscany

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    Where History Takes Root, and Beauty Unfolds with the Seasons. There is a particular kind of beauty to be found in a Tuscan garden. It belongs to the meeting of nature and time: a cypress darkened by the afternoon sun, an ancient stone wall softened by climbing greenery, the fragrance of rosemary released beneath one’s…

  • The Nymphaeum of Villa Litta — A Theatre of Wonder.

    The Nymphaeum of Villa Litta — A Theatre of Wonder.

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    WHERE PEBBLE MOSAICS, WATER, GROTTOS AND RENAISSANCE ARTISTRY CREATE AN INTERIOR OF EXTRAORDINARY ENCHANTMENT. Hidden within the gardens of Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta at Lainate, just outside Milan, lies one of Italy’s most extraordinary interiors. The sixteenth-century Nymphaeum was conceived not simply as a place of retreat, but as a world of illusion — mysterious…

  • La Dimora — A Sorrento House of Art, Memory & Mediterranean Grace

    La Dimora — A Sorrento House of Art, Memory & Mediterranean Grace

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    WHERE RENZO MONGIARDINO’S THEATRICAL ELEGANCE MEETS A GARDEN, A FAMILY COLLECTION AND THE QUIET BEAUTY OF SORRENTO. There are houses designed to impress, and there are houses that seem to have absorbed the lives lived within them. La Dimora, hidden in the landscape of Sorrento, belongs unmistakably to the latter. Behind its gates lies an…

  • Villa Cetinale — The Most Beautiful Villa in Tuscany

    Villa Cetinale — The Most Beautiful Villa in Tuscany

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    WHERE ROMAN BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE, SACRED LANDSCAPE AND TUSCAN GARDENS MEET. West of Siena, where the cultivated hills give way to the wooded Montagnola Senese, Villa Cetinale appears with the quiet authority of a place perfectly aligned with its landscape. Cypresses frame a long green axis; olive groves soften the slopes; and the villa’s weathered facades…

  • Il Borro by Ferragamo — The Art of the Truffle Hunt: A Private Tuscan Adventure

    Il Borro by Ferragamo — The Art of the Truffle Hunt: A Private Tuscan Adventure

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    TUSCANY REVEALS IT’S GREATEST LUXURIES QUIETLY. At Il Borro, the beautifully restored medieval estate owned by the Ferragamo family, one of the region’s oldest traditions continues in elegant simplicity: the truffle hunt. Accompanied by an experienced tartufaio and a highly trained Lagotto Romagnolo, guests wander through ancient woodland where the prized truffle lies hidden beneath…

  • Reschio – Count Benedikt Bolza’s Umbrian Masterpiece

    Reschio – Count Benedikt Bolza’s Umbrian Masterpiece

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    WHERE AN ANCIENT CASTLE, CONTEMPORARY CRAFT AND THE WILD BEAUTY OF UMBRIA MEET. Rising from the wooded hills where Umbria approaches the Tuscan border, Reschio appears less like a conventional country estate than a private world shaped by time. At its heart stands a thousand-year-old castle, surrounded by cypress roads, lakes, meadows and stone farmhouses…