One Big Love Affair with Ischia
From silver screen to IRL In a telling moment in Anthony Mighella’s epic film The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley looks adoringly at Dickie Greenleaf and says, “I’ve gotten to…
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A Classic Tuscany Getaway: Tenuta di Poggio Casciano
Not In Kansas Anymore You know that moment in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy cyclones from black and white into technicolor? That is what I feel like whenever I…
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Weekender: Padova
Weekend getaways in Italy are easy. Spin the globe north, south, east or west, or roll the dice for mountains, hilltowns, beaches and cities, and you will find somewhere incredible. Veneto towns inspired Shakespeare to create heartbreaking rivalries and belly-aching comedies, but it’s Padova is that is the region’s sleeper of a city.
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A Hill Town Grows in Tuscany
Chatting up Michael Cioffi, owner of Monteverdi Tuscany, a charming medieval borgo on a beautiful Tuscan hilltop "Where Art, Culture, and Luxury Come to Stay."
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Weekender: Ski escape to Courmayeur, Valle d’Aosta
Italians are lucky. Aside from amazing food, architecture, design, fashion and art, Italy has incredible geography within a drive from the cities: beaches, countryside, hilltops and mountains. And oh those…
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