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Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, with a Pit Stop in Noto
Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples is the most amazing place you’ve never heard of. At least I had never heard of it, until I began planning a trip to Sicily a few months back. Turns out Sicily’s south coast has … Continue reading →
Posted in ITALY, TRAVEL
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Tagged Agrigento, archaeological museum, Baroque, Hotel Quirinale, Kolymbethra, La Moretta, Modica, Noto, Ragusa, Sicily, telamon, Temple of Concordia, Temple of Zeus, Valley of the Temples, Villa Goethe
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Weekend in Valencia: From Bang to Hush
The peaceful Jardin del Turia on Sunday afternoon THE VALENCIA TRIP, which started with so many bangs, ended with the pleasant Sunday hush common to most European cities. Doubly so, because it was the day after the culminating ceremonies of … Continue reading →
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS & GARDENING, SPAIN, TRAVEL
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Tagged Alameda, almoina, archaeological museum, Arts and Crafts, Baroque, boutique hotels, ceramics museum, Christian, City of Arts and Sciences, crema, Estacion del Norte, Fallas, festival, French Empire, Gothic, Jardin del Turia, L'Almoina, metro station, Modernismo, mosaics, Museo Nacional de Ceramica, Palacio de la Bellota, park, period rooms, rioja, Roman, Rusaffa, Santiago Calatrava, stained glass, tapas, tiled kitchen, turia, Turia riverbed, Valencia, Visigoth
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Heading to Valencia
I’M GOING TO SPAIN THIS EVENING, so for the next six days, expect to see pictures of High Gothic, Baroque, Moorish, and ultra-futuristic architecture, rather than brownstones. It’s a press trip to Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, where I’ve never been, … Continue reading →
Posted in SPAIN, TRAVEL
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Tagged architecture, Baroque, futuristic, High Gothic, Moorish, SPAIN, Valencia
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What Glamour Is
NOBODY DOES IT like Metropolitan Home. I say this not because I’ve been writing for the magazine since 1981, but because — though it’s known mainly for a certain sleek, high-end modernity — it is also capable of forays into … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Lau, avant garde, Baroque, Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz, bohemian, Celerie Kemble, Donna Warner, eco-chic, Glamour: Making it Modern, Jonathan Adler, magazine, Metropolitan Home, Miami, Michael Lassell, modern, NIBA Home, Nisi Berryman, Palm Beach, rustic, Shamir Shah
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