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...And while the city is known for its stunning views of the majestic North Shore mountains, taking to the trails often means giving up these spectacular vistas for smaller, more intimate treasures: trickling...
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...The Menlo Park-based investment group is best known for partnering with personal computer billionaire Michael Dell on the $24bn buyout of his eponymous PC company in 2013, then acquiring EMC Corporation...
...When he put down roots two decades ago on the slopes of Monte Amiata, between the Val d’Orcia and Maremma, he set about learning its secret paths and forests, ruins and byways, on foot....
...Of finding a vista of escape. Occasionally of confronting fear. And all of this excitement on a daily basis....
...One of the first decisions he’ll have to make is whether to buy government-owned bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena....
...To the south is a sweeping vista to One World Trade and the Statue of Liberty....
...To the west of the property is the Laguna San Rafael national park while Monte San Lorenzo, more than 3,700 metres high, lies to the south....
...Del Monte, a sandy beach favoured by Monterey locals, features in several scenes, as does the Garrapata State Park, just south of town, which is famous for its rugged cliffs, redwood groves and miles of...
...“L’inglese” was revered in Italy, ruled the Riviera, and in the 1970s wowed the US: a final masterpiece was the park for the PepsiCo sculpture collection in upstate New York....
...to buy canned foods company Del Monte Foods for $1.7bn....
...The project is financed by Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, Banca Popolare di Milano and Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and Germany’s Hypothekenbank Frankfurt....
...On the other side of the island, another developer is already converting a ruined plantation, Belo Monte, into a boutique hotel....
...But this promises to wreak havoc with one of Monaco’s main attractions – its uninterrupted vista of the sea....
...Yet this is very much an inhabited old town, too; the large car park on prime real estate with fine sea views is testament....
...To my mind it commands the best view in the national park....
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