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...When I lost my father, Diego Della Valle sent me a note with this message: “I believe we all share the same solid and generous values that our parents taught us, and that your father has given you....
...Case in point: Casa Olivetta, the little compound of farmhouses in an olive grove that she restored in the Valle d’Itria back in 2016....
...Signatories included Timotheus Höttges at Deutsche Telekom, Christel Heydemann at Orange, José María Álvarez-Pallete at Telefónica and Pietro Labriola at Telecom Italia....
...Baja’s hidden valley When Mexicans want their own Napa (or Hunter, or Walla Walla) Valley experience, they know to head to Baja California: it’s where the Valle de Guadalupe, north of Ensenada and long...
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...Maria Grazia Chiuri (who has since moved on to Dior) and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the brand’s current creative director, are considered two of the most visionary minds in the modern fashion industry; Valentino...
...Despite those dark pandemic images, Bergamo is one of Italy’s great outdoor cities, I realise as we chug past the vineyards and buttercup-filled fields of the Valle d’Astino, west of the Città Alta, on one...
...Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri has no such qualms....
..., the traditional 16th- and 17th-century fortified manors have been bought up by Romans and Milanese – and Swiss, and British, and Australians (the particularly dense concentration of the latter in the Valle...
...built by Benetti, Heesen, Perini Navi, Feadship and others of their ilk, to restored vintage beauties (Altair III, the Jon Bannenberg-refitted 1974 expedition yacht owned by Tod’s chairman Diego Della Valle...
...Her famous friends and guests – from Peter Sellers to Maria Callas, the Dalai Lama to Johnny Cash – were too....
...While there have been deaths across the country, it is striking how many have occurred in Cali, a city of 2.3m people in the restive south-west of the country, and the surrounding region of Valle del Cauca...
...Keep walking to the Piazza del Popolo, where you must visit the church of Santa Maria del Popolo....
...Among the rich it has been a “golden confinement” for many, says María Torres, editor-in-chief of society magazine Quién, as the wealthy retreated to their second or third homes in the countryside or by...
...An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is Castelmagno, which sits like a gem on top of the Valle Grana in Piemonte in the southern Cozie Alps....
...Antonio del Valle, president of the Mexican Business Council, told me recently that despite corporate goodwill, “there are no clear projects to invest in” — only grand plans, not yet detailed projects....
...It comes from ferment on the ground — you feel that ferment in Portugal,” says Maria Milano, an architect and professor at Porto’s ESAD school of art and design....
...They had one daughter, María del Carmen, born in 1926. 1926 He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general....
...Luis Maria Bedoya, for instance, presents Lima at night in 1999 as a field of blackness punctuated by the occasional small domestic existence playing out through a lighted window....
...I-escape has a range of boutique hotels in Granada, including La Almunia del Valle, where doubles cost from £92....
...Mr Della Valle looked very happy as he listened to all the comments, which seemd to boil down, generally, to: “wow! these clothes look so contemporary.”...
...From the city it’s possible to make day trips into the jungle, along the coast and to El Valle, a pretty town in the crater of an extinct volcano....
...Puglia is more obviously associated with trulli, those cute conical-roofed dwellings more common to the Valle d’Itria, in the north of Puglia near Bari....
...Of course there was more guitar-playing, this time by Jose Valle Fajardo and Salva de María, and singing from Manuel Gago, all of whom backed the dancers with such rapport that they became part of the dance...
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