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Borromeo Baroque: Lake Maggiore’s Isola Bella & Isola Madre
Travel• April 8, 2020.With Italy facing one of its most perilous challenges, here is a look back at Primavera on Isola Bella and Isola Madre where timeless architecture and fantastic landscapes personify the enduring Italian spirit, the art of nature, the splendor of the past, and the promise of Spring...

Three days of spectacular revelry at the Carnevale Gala in Venice
Travel• February 25, 2020.Mary Hilliard covers (and photographs) Save Venice’s Carnevale Gala, “All the World’s A Stage,” in Venice, Italy. Costume balls, exhibitions, dinners in ancient palazzos and a trip through the cultural treasures of Save Venice’s assistance...

Gathering in the Arabian desert for the Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates
Travel• February 24, 2020.Sharon Hoge is back from an incredible sojourn in Saudi Arabia where Nobel Laureates, Saudi nobles, business executives, and scientists assembled in an amazing desert region strategizing how to involve the lessons of heritage into future development...

THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES Tour the Marche Region of Italy
Travel• January 10, 2020.Sharon King Hoge takes us on the American Friends of Versailles tour of the Marche Region of Italy of the heritage of architectural and garden design that contributed to Louis XIV’s grand palace Versailles. An amazing tour of late Roman and early renaissance history along the Adriatic Coast...