The Kneipp spa-hotels in Austrian offer wellness holidays with a difference: the resorts are run by an order of nuns and base their holistic treatments on a tradition founded 100 years ago by a Roman Catholic priest.
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Wine guru Robert Parker pays unique homage to Barolo 2007, a vintage that could down as a once-in-a-generation offering. And the Italians rejoice.
The Venus of Morgantina, a priceless pre-Christ statue, crosses land and sea after Malibu’s Getty Museum agrees to let her go after a long battle over business, laws and history. (maveric2003) ENNA – The Venus of Morgantina, a priceless statue dating back to the fifth century B.C., has made it home to a remote Sicilian […]
A dispatch from the new front line of expat rural life from Maria-Louise Sawyer, who came to the Charente region with her husband in 2002, only to find herself alone and broke nine years later.
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Baggage
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000198 EndHTML:0000010197 StartFragment:0000002583 EndFragment:0000010161 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/jef_israely/Dropbox/Articles/Italian%20Luggage%20Story.doc A new life for abandoned baggage “Gabbianella” volunteers distribute goods to the most needy In Naples, they found a complete doctor’s bag, the type used for home visits, with a blood pressure gauge, a stethoscope and all the rest. In Verona, along the same lines, a complete set of […]
To make sure the chic island getaway offers maximum R&R, Capri wants to limit the use of heavy machinery in summer months. August will be completely silent – except, of course, for all the tourists. Capri (shoobydooby) CAPRI – This island is already known for its breathtaking scenery and VIP parties. Now Capri is offering […]
More and more Parisian restaurants are opening up to the explorations of Japanese-French fusion. Sweetbread fusion (jlastras) PARIS – Japanese chefs have been streaming into the French capital for the past ten years. Some remain faithful to the traditional Japanese cuisine, and delight their customers with the immensely rich gastronomy of the land of the […]
Chinese tourists offer European countries a major new source of revenue, but Italians are slow to catch on to the opportunity. Chinese tourists in Rome (Ed Yourdan) Chinese tourists have quietly surpassed their American and Japanese counterparts to become the biggest foreign traveler spenders in Italy. Last year, some one million Chinese came to visit, […]
Touring the peninsula in the 19th century, Pellegrino Artusi documented Italy’s best cuisine — from pastry in Trieste to pasta in Sicily – and invented a national treasure. An Italian trattoria (Comell Mare) Italy is marking the 150th anniversary of its unification from a set of separate kingdoms into a single nation. In the backdrop […]
Don’t let Bordeaux vintages at staggering prices deter you from the impressive array of top wines that are astonishingly affordable. A panel of experts recently selected the most promising.
The latest international connoisseur on the secrets of weight loss is an old-school doctor who isn’t afraid to call you ‘fat’.
On Feb. 14, France matches up two of its specialties: romance and wine.
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Care For Some Chinese Bordeaux?
China’s state-owned food giant plants a stake in the world’s most celebrated wine region. Bordeaux wine cellar (xlibber) Valerie Landrieu Wine guides praise its body and smoothness. The Chateau de Viaud, a lalande-de-pomerol, now belongs to the Chinese government. After almost three years of negotiations, Cofco, the Chinese state-owned food giant has struck a deal […]
Trains and highways can’t handle the huge flow of travelers for the Chinese New Year Beijing train station (Olekvi) EYES INSIDE – CHINA Wildlife researchers will tell you that the largest migration on Earth is the herds of African wildebeest and zebras crossing the Serengeti plain. But they’ve never counted the 2.8 billion journeys generated […]
Three years after Alitalia’s international fleet was shifted south to Rome, the Milan area airport tries to remake itself. Malpensa (ComunicaTi) MILAN – It did not become a desert as some had feared, but Malpensa is simply no longer a major airport. Still, three years after Rome’s Fiumicino was re-designated as Alitalia’s global hub, and […]
There are some 50 hotels in Switzerland with explicitly Christian affiliations, thriving in tough economic (and spiritual) times. The Ländli Center in Oberägeri, Switzerland is a large, well-furnished complex in an ideal location. It boasts a spa, conference center, holiday resort, and spacious wellness center. From the hotel restaurant’s dining room, you can gaze out […]
A rare encounter in West Africa with the supreme leader of the global animist faith, which mixes prophecy and ancient tribal rites with a modern quest for religious tolerance Voodoo festival, Ouidah (Tracy Longacre) OUIDAH – “In 2011, don’t dress in red,” says Daagbo Hounon Houn II, considered the supreme leader of voodoo. “Whoever does […]
Whether in Elbląg, Olsztyn or Kaliningrad, city centers throughout East Prussia are being reinvented with modern interpretations of historical architecture. central Olsztyn By 1980, even as post-modernism was just taking root, German architects had already declared it dead. German architectural historian Heinrich Klotz’s “The Belling Stags of Architecture: Kitsch in Modern Building Art” and his […]
The monk who runs China’s legendary Shaolin monastery discovers enlightenment and earnings reports are not incompatible Monks at Shaolin temple EYES INSIDE – CHINA Shi Yong Xin is not your average monk. For starters, he is said to be the first Chinese monk to hold an MBA. So at a cultural industry forum last week […]
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Test Jeff New Garage
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Though France and Italy still leading winemakers, Chinese production to grow another 77% by 2014 BORDEAUX – This was unexpected: China is now one of the largest producers of wine in the world. The world’s most populous country, which only recently discovered wine, has pushed ahead to take seventh place in global rankings in 2010 […]
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Enchanting Eating In Northern Italy
Tucked away in the Po Valley, Da Manuela is a restaurant worth returning to for its ambience and salami for antipasto. And dessert! ravioli is ready We are straddling the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy: with Alessandria on one side, Pavia on the other. Down the middle, acting as the glue and marking the […]
Swiss-based Ethical Coffee Company, run by a former top Nespresso executive, ready to crank up its production of its biodegradable, single-use coffee pods. ANNEMASSE – The challenge to Nespresso starts brewing here. The Ethical Coffee Company (ECC) has leased a 4,000 square meter factory in the French town of Annemasse, just across the Swiss border. […]
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The Godfather’s Appetite
Cannoli and killers: a new book connects Cosa Nostra power with the seduction of Sicilian cuisine An Italian restaurant in Warsaw (Tulio Bertorini via flickr) Francesco La Licata ROME – At the table, any conflict can be smoothed out, peace made, war declared, business done, oaths sealed, alliances forged. At the table, in short, we […]
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Where Does Wine Come From?
First developed by the Phoenicians, viticulture was eventually spread by the Romans into Gaul, where it was turned into the wine we know today.