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...What A 1,600 sq m villa, two apartments and buildings including a chapel....
...Berlinde de Bruyckere’s City of Refuge III, textural sculptures of fallen angels, tragic yet redemptive, perfectly suits its setting, San Giorgio Maggiore’s chapel and monastery — a refuge of peace....
...Here the olive groves are edged by honey-coloured drystone walls that curl and snake down to the coast like long limestone serpents....
...It has air conditioning, a billiard room, chapel, balconies and a rooftop terrace with views of the Certosa di San Martino monastery....
...Its five acres of olive groves and vineyards provide the sense of sanctuary; set in their midst are an 18th-century manor house, an older farmhouse and, between them, a charming chapel – now home to a large...
...If this is the playful side of the collectors’ passion, it’s borne out in the sculpture park that stretches through olive groves around the property....
...Scraggy sheep had found places to lie among the rocks and roots of an olive grove, so well camouflaged they seemed to blend seamlessly into the landscape....
...In the foreground was the tiny chapel of St John, in the distance snow-capped Mount Ida, the highest of the mountains that dominate the Cretan landscape....
...All the rooms are grand, but perhaps most charming is the former chapel, La Capilla, with its high-domed ceilings and arched doors....
...“Notting Hill, and particularly Ladbroke Grove, is an area of such high energy,” he smiles. “But there currently isn’t anything like Ladbroke Hall....
...The forest’s shadowy passages are studded with statues — Greek demi-gods, saints, mystical beasts — and frescoed chapels....
...This very polished property south-west of town (formerly Sunrise Springs), with its three recognisable brick-rimmed tubs sitting astride a natural pond in a cottonwood grove, could as easily be a resort...
...“I’ve had my busiest summer ever,” says Ivan Gaston, a water engineer, who rents out a converted chapel adjacent to his home in south Wales....
...As well as a mini-stadium that seats 4,500 people, the finished complex will house gyms, a swimming pool, a boarding school for young players, even a chapel....
...One day a series of chance encounters led them to a house in Umbria with a bell tower and an adjoining chapel. Antonio, now 77, remembers his first encounter with the place....
...Today the palace chapel appears to be one room, where Byzantine, Islamic and Romanesque features merge into a single stunning space....
...A lovely shortcut there is to take the tree-lined grove of Lovers’ Walk, which runs between Gallery Road and College Road....
...The brilliant morning light — sharper than the haze of summer — fell on cliffs fringed by cypress trees; beyond them were orange and lemon groves, and the distant bleat of goats....
...The candles are lit in the little vaulted chapel where the saddlehorse rubs up against icons of the Virgin Mary....
...do that is to check into Suite 30, an original 6x6 and the latest addition to Villa La Coste, the idyllic hotel at Château La Coste, a 200-hectare estate of undulating vineyards, lavender fields, olive groves...
...What A 13-bedroom, 15th-century villa surrounded by a 700-tree olive grove and 15 hectares of land....
...As well as an olive grove, the estate has a seven-acre Merlot vineyard....
...On Cormont Road, the Unique Property Company is selling a five-bedroom apartment in a converted chapel for £3.5m....
...But there is plenty of gilt colonial bling on show in the side chapels....
...Why Around 13 acres of grounds provide a bountiful harvest: there are olive and citrus groves, vines and a mixed fruit orchard....
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