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...Sisley Paris will operate the spa. And there’ll be indoor and outdoor pools and a rooftop bar....
...Meanwhile, Sensoria Dolomites, an adults-only spa retreat, opened last year at the foot of the Alpe di Siusi ski area — and only half an hour’s drive from the airport (doubles from €510 all inclusive; sensoriadolomites.com...
...I then consider leaping into the spa’s ice-cold plunge pool – but opt to eat a pizza and drink a Limoncello spritz instead....
...This year, Margherita Puri Negri, Terre di Sacra’s next-generation custodian, will roll out Glamping Terre di Sacra, on a site next to La Dogana, which might be my favourite beach club in all Italy (come...
...Every glowing morning the coast of Snowdonia and Cardigan Bay were remade Mediterranean....
...estate, Castello di Reschio, close to Umbria’s Tuscan border....
...At the Medil in Campitello there is a delightful spa and excellent, aubergine-heavy Italian home cooking....
...The scene is set, once again, like a Mediterranean version of Groundhog Day, for a private-public bailout of Italy’s endlessly troubled airline Alitalia....
...With the open ski bowls and snowboard parks of Trentino’s Madonna di Campiglio a stone’s throw away, the 88 suites and 5,000sq m spa are – unusually for the area – open almost all year round....
...Luigi Di Maio, Five Star’s leader and deputy prime minister, said that he would feel free to act against Autostrade in contrast to other politicians who had been funded by the family....
...del Sogno is a family-owned boutique hotel with 18 luxurious bedrooms, a pool and a spa....
...countless inlets — provides ideal conditions for molluscs and crustaceans, with scampi (best eaten raw), native muscioli that open like jewel-boxes — and dondoli clams rather poetically called tartufi di...
...These include Telecom Italia, and its largest bank by assets UniCredit, its third-largest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena and several luxury goods groups....
...In summer you can hardly move for designer-clad Italians schmoozing in the pavement cafés, tanning themselves on the pebbly coves and snorkelling in the clear Mediterranean waters....
...All of which put me in mind of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s line in The Leopard, that “everything needs to change so everything can stay the same.”...
...Dolce & Gabbana has updated its classic Light Blue fragrance with two new versions that are redolent of a Mediterranean summer: Dreaming in Portofino for women (£35, 25ml, www.johnlewis.com) smells warm...
...According to the Fondazione Altagamma, the national luxury goods consortium, with data from Eurostat and Istituti Nazionali di Statistica, Italy exported leather goods and footwear worth $17.8bn in 2010,...
...Crédit Agricole bought Emporiki, the country’s fifth largest by assets, in 2006 for €2.2bn as part of a Mediterranean expansion drive that also saw it enter Italy, Spain and Portugal....
...It fronts directly on to the Liscia di Vacca beach....
...These evoke, just a little preposterously, the Parthenon as the Greek-born Italian artist Giorgio di Chirico might have painted it....
...Corrado Passera, chief executive of Intesa San Paolo, and Antonio Vigni, his opposite number at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, told the Financial Times in separate interviews that they would resume the...
...A boat to cruise the Mediterranean. Another boat that used to belong to John F Kennedy, moored in Capri....
...Finma acknowledged that the two banks were helped by their limited exposure to Europe’s weakest economies – notably the Mediterranean region....
...There are many long-established FO schemes in the Caribbean, the US and Canada and on some Mediterranean coasts....
...Sicily is a strategic Mediterranean island well used to changes of rule....
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