Tag: hotels

  • 6 Places to Stay on a Roman Holiday: Great Boutique Hotels in the Eternal City

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    Rome boutique hotels—here are six exceptional places to stay on your Roman holiday.

  • Veneto Spa Hotel Has the World’s Deepest Thermal Pool

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    About half an hour by train from Venice and even closer to Padua is Hotel Millepini Terme, a spa hotel that has the Guinness World Record for the world’s deepest thermal pool. The Y-40 The Deep Joy is 137-feet deep (40 meters) at its deepest, with four underwater grottos along the way. There’s a viewing tunnel at…

  • Authentic Accommodations in Abruzzi

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    Those who may have watched CBS Sunday Morning* yesterday probably caught the Allen Pizzey “Postcard: Abruzzi” piece, which profiled a castle in the village of Santo Stefano di Sessania, Abruzzo (or Abruzzi, if you will) that has been converted into “authentic” accommodations for those few tourists who wander off the beaten track to this area of…

  • Tuscan Wine Picks From Epicurious

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    One of the pleasures of visiting Tuscany is having the chance to drive the fertile hills of wine country, sampling reds and whites along the way. Most travelers really only think of Chianti, a mini-region within Tuscany, when thinking about Tuscan wine. But another vino hotspot is Montalcino. Montalcino is the home of Brunello di…

    Tuscany vineyard Photo by Mircea X.