Autor: Charlotte Hill
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June 2026 · Charlotte Hill Why Taormina is the most compelling town in Sicily – and why the most discerning travellers, wine lovers, yacht crews, and property investors keep coming back. There is a particular kind of place that gets under your skin the first time and simply does not let go. Taormina is that…
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June 2026 · Charlotte Hill From Taormina’s Greek theatre and the temples of Agrigento to the street markets of Palermo and the volcanic vineyards of Etna – why Sicily is the most layered destination in the Mediterranean, and the part of Italy that rewards the traveller who goes slowly. Sicily does not operate at the…
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Florence does not reward rushing. It rewards the traveller who understands that this city operates on its own temporal logic — one measured not in tourist checklists, but in the quality of light at seven in the morning when the Piazza del Duomo is empty, in the silence of a museum before the…
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There is a moment, arriving at Villa Cora, when Florence does something unexpected: it disappears. The noise of the city, the crowds at the Pitti Palace three minutes away, the scooters on the lungarno — all of it gone. What remains is a 19th-century neo-classical villa of extraordinary beauty, a garden in full bloom, and…
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Florence has never been a city that does luxury loudly. Its finest hotels occupy Renaissance palazzi and 19th-century villas, their facades indistinguishable from the buildings on either side — which is, of course, precisely the point. What lies behind those stone doors is another matter entirely. This is a guide to six of the best,…
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There are buildings that impress. And then there is the Florence Cathedral — the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore — which does something rarer: it astonishes, repeatedly, across centuries, and at every scale from the distant skyline to the interior detail a centimetre from your face. This is a complete guide to understanding it,…
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Buying property in Florence is not simply a real estate transaction. It is an act of alignment — with a city, a landscape, a way of living that has remained, in its essentials, unchanged for five centuries. The question serious buyers are asking in 2026 is not whether Florence represents good value. It is whether…
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Florence does not produce wine. It does something more interesting — it collects the finest bottles from the hills, valleys, and coastline that surround it, and offers them to anyone who knows where to look. No city in the world gives you better access to serious Tuscan wine than Florence. This is your guide to…
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Florence does not compete with other cities. It occupies a category of its own — a small, dense, walkable capital of human civilisation that has produced more art, architecture, and intellectual fire per square kilometre than almost anywhere on earth. For the discerning traveller, it is not merely a destination. It is a reckoning. This…
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hePuglia is the part of Italy that the rest of Italy talks about when it thinks nobody is listening. It is the region that Italians have always known about and the rest of Europe is only now discovering – which means, depending on when you go and where you stay, you can still find the…