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...Great location, good (if trad-skewing) design, food and service — and easy proximity to the retail pleasures of Via del Corso and Via del Babuino Not so good for: The hipster on the hunt for a serious sui...
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...La Magia del Presepe, for instance, is a tiny and delightful shop tucked on a residential road in Tor Pignattara, east of the city centre....
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...Maria Shollenbarger was a guest of Palazzo Durazzo...
...The menú del día (menu of the day) is €14.95 and changes every day....
...Oct, from €5,060 per person A detox alla toscana Monteverdi Tuscany – the hotel deep in the south of the region, sensitively integrated into the picturesque medieval hilltop village of Castiglioncello del...
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...moments of tasteful whimsy that recall the hotel’s history, such as the frescoes he commissioned the Rome-based artist Roberto Ruspoli to paint directly on the lobby’s walls and ceiling: line-drawn ancient-Roman...
...Here Portaluppi designed a major insurance building with (yet another) triumphal arch making a big urban statement and framing the view of the Chiesa Santa Maria presso San Satiro....
...Mounds of bay leaves, hollow tree trunks, slim skeletal branches – some real, carved or wood, others cast in various metals – make the conventional walk through this most Roman of galleries a surreal, unforgettable...
...The next two days are spent hiking, visiting Byzantine rock churches, underground cities such as Mazı — a regional refuge from persecution since it was first excavated around the Roman period — and warming...
...Isola del Giglio is next on our itinerary....
...B&B from €200, tenutadipaternostro.it Row with the flow in Venice Venice has its two Biennales, and its Festival del Cinema....
...Further still, the estate’s lush tropical gardens and views of the Costa del Sol....
...They’re purists here and don’t offer it willingly, but the holy grail is a scoop of pistachio with vanilla soft serve on top. morellisgelato.com Mark C O’Flaherty Jones Ice Cream, Berlin Some of Berlin...
...Its first recipient is El Museo del Barrio, a New York institution for the often-overlooked Latino artists....
...Possibly going with a cravat, but probably not going full signet ring (caveat: Lampedusa’s Barone del Biscotto – not the vibe these pros aim to cultivate)....
...It has been said that the 1953 Hepburn/Peck moment in Roman Holiday sold 100,000 scooters. And I would argue that it is still selling scooters 69 years later....
...hopes to totally reboot it in the Eternal City, with Sicilian superchef Ciccio Sultano overseeing culinary offerings, a rooftop bar with 360-degree views, and decor that channels ebullient Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...For the scene-maker (with cash to spare): Hotel de Russie Via del Babuino 9, 00187 Rome For two decades a — if not the — Roman nexus for that stratum of travellers who all seem to somehow know each other...
...Each had their own jetties and wooden bathing pavilions, and were surrounded by moss-covered walls, topped with baroque statues of Roman senators....
...It was a bluebird day in 2016 when Anna Maria Enselmi first laid eyes on the Palazzo dei Conti di Lecce, a sprawling 18th-century jewel with 13th-century foundations, set just behind the Duomo in Puglia’...
...In non-Covid times, I Casali del Pino is also home to a country-house hotel; the 16 rooms are in a three-storey outbuilding where the tobacco-pickers would bunk....
...Guests will stay at TC’s beautiful Rincón del Socorro estancia, in the heart of Iberá, where the jaguar project is managed....
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