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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...
Hôtel de la Marine: Monument to the Art of French Living
Travel• April 26, 2019.Paris lives on as Delia von Neuschatz discovers the palatial Hôtel de la Marine, which is currently undergoing a €100 million renovation and will again, in the spring of 2020, begin showcasing the French “art de vivre.”...
La Belle Époque: Splendor in the Past
Travel• March 11, 2019.Whether 1900 or 2000 every generation has its Belle Époque as past centuries end and new ones begin. For author Thomas Mann’s character Gustav Aschenbach in Death in Venice, an obsession with Beauty leads him to the luxuriousness of the Grand Hotel des Bain on Venice’s Lido. Closed for many years, last year COIMA, a […]...
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