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...What An 18th-century farmhouse with 12 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms across the main house, three apartments and a guest suite....
...Once there, the whole place is theirs for the roaming for a half or full day, giving visitors exclusive access to a thatch-roofed villa, alfresco spa suites, plunge pools, a dining platform suspended over...
...Firms like Lazard are desperate to woo C-suite executives as a means to eventually get those mandates....
...another former Deutsche bank executive Michele Faissola, who was among 13 bankers who received jail sentences as part of a probe into the falsification of accounts at the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena...
...The borgo itself, just south of Castellina, is surrounded by hundreds of acres of vineyards, and boasts a truly breath-stealing view of Siena....
...A James Siena painting, Ssonsunurrhth, hangs in the library, alongside a sculpture, Bull, by William Byl....
...I would live at the Bulgari Hotel, specifically in an upper-floor suite with a terrace and a great view over the city – it’s my home away from home....
...Paolo Uccello’s magnificent “Battle of San Romano”, a set of three paintings to commemorate Florence’s conflict with Siena in 1432, polished the military reputation of his city so brightly that two of the...
...A suite of problems — stemming from the overpriced acquisition of rival Antonveneta, a glut of bad loans and a culture of hubristic management — all but felled the bank....
...The house has three reception rooms and four en suite bedrooms. There is also a two-bedroom cottage. Why The walled kitchen garden has vegetable beds, a greenhouse and mature fruit trees....
...What A second-floor lateral apartment with four bedrooms, including a 400 sq ft master suite....
...The brinkmanship can be seen as part of the rough and tumble of renegotiating a C-suite pay package....
...There’s a hammam, a private cinema, an indoor pool, and four suites for a maximum of eight guests....
...There are 13 bedrooms, including three grand suites on the piano nobile....
...The house has seven en suite bedrooms, as well as a master-bedroom suite with its own private sundeck and terrace....
...An imposing bronze statue of a gladiator armed with trident and net overlooks the lobby paved with delicate yellow Siena marble illuminated by Murano crystal chandeliers from Venice....
...What A newly built country estate, with six en suite bedrooms in the main house, and a further two cottages that can be used for staff or as guests houses....
...countryside in the hills west of Siena....
...The museum-like suites are double-height and candlelit. History lovers will appreciate the grottos decked out with antiques, and beds with antique linens....
...The thick hand-rolled pici pasta of Siena province, normally paired with a ragu of meat or game, here is matched with meaty monkfish fillets in breadcrumbs....
...► Porto, Siena, Tuscany, £8m Where: High in the Chianti hills, 12km from Siena, close to Pisa airport, with its own heliport. What: Renovated monastery owned by the Vatican in the 12th century....
...What: A Grade I-listed Georgian canonry with six principal bedroom suites....
...It comprises seven suites and 24 double rooms, with a gym, a bar, landscaped gardens and a 30-metre swimming pool, and for part of the year Stein runs it as luxury hotel: an option for any new owner....
...The best suite, overpriced in the current market at €1,760 a night, has a wide private terrace for sitting and eating and a mezzanine-style mini-gym....
...Also close to Siena, the entire fortified hill-top hamlet of Monastero dell’Ombrone opened as a hotel this summer....
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