Cruise America: a family affair
They call it the Mother Road, and it’s the most iconic road in America — lined with motels, neon signs, gas pumps, and drive-ins. It’s been immortalized in the books of Steinbeck and Kerouac, and we’ve seen it on the big screen in Thelma & Louise, Easy Rider, and in scenes from The Blues Brothers […]
VILLA BARBARICH: AWAY FROM EVERYTHING, CLOSE TO EVERYTHING
Villa Barbarich is part of the Ville Venete circuit (there are so many across different provinces; in Veneto). As Palladio wrote, a villa “must be seen from afar, and from the villa one must be able to see far.” There was a precise study in the times of the Serenissima Republic regarding these homes, distinguishing […]
Tropea seen from Villa Paola
There is the church, a vegetable garden down in the valley that would make anyone without such a garden envious, and, raising your eyes, you see Tropea, which at night from here looks like a nativity scene. The strengths of Villa Paola, a five-star boutique hotel with 12 rooms in a 16th-century former monastery perched […]