Most commonly known as the Reggia di Caserta, this Unesco-listed pad is considered one of the greatest and last-achievements of Italian Baroque architecture. It also where Tom Cruise shot scenes for Mission Impossible 3 and where George Lucas filmed the interior shots of Queen Amidala’s royal residence in Star Wars Episode 1.
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Napoli called me back! After being in rainy and humid Brussels for only a few days, I got invited to stay with a friend in Capri at his small penthouse with a view of the romantic Mount Vesuvius in the Posillipo quarter.
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On the aliscafo from Capri, before my six o clock plane to Brussels , I realize I have got a few hours to “kill” in city of Naples.
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The historical villas of Capri recall the life, joy, love stories and sufferance of the great from the times of the Romans to today.
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the experience of spending time at J.K. Place boutique hotel is like being a guest in a house, in your house, with your own friends and help.
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The royal of Alacazar is one of the oldest in Europe, declared bu UNESCO as Patrimony of Humanity, its a real jewel
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It’s only after you search within yourself and your traveling that you can find, if it’s what you need to find, the true place of your origin. When you arrive in a site and feel a strong sense of affinity with the air, the climate, the music, the way people walk in the street, you can be sure it’s probably where “home” is.
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This small hotel, in heart of the old Barrio of Santa Cruz, near the Alamedas de las Cruzes, the magnificent Catedral, the Iglesia Santa Maria La Blanca and San Bartolome, lays in a street called La Juderia the old Jewish Quarter, at a time where Jews, Muslims and Christians all lived in Seville with no major difficulties.
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Flamenco icon and world-renowned dancer, Soledad Barrio drove me mad when she danced at my feet during her New York performance Noche Flamenca.
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Although it is dwarfed both by the Jordanian Desert and the Sinai Desert, the Negev desert is a relatively small area with a great deal to offer particularly to first time desert travelers, steeped in history and home to a host of geological wonders.
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Ze’ev says that we were all born with a blue aura and that over time, through our life actions, mental activities and emotions, the aura gets abused by different kinds of negative and heavy energies, including the one that in Mediterranean countries is called the evil eye.
I can understand how people of Capri cannot resist of getting rid of their old habit of having the light of sunrise in their eyes, the hour that enrolls the thoughts like the sugar of a special small liquor.
After having spent a never ending day on the deep Indigo blue waters of the island of Capri, I realize there is something between heaven and the sea, that the emperor Tiberius often asked himself looking at the sea “Quid sirenae cantare sint solitae?” (What do the sirens sing?).
They say in Brazil, God is Brazilian, but trust me Allah knew what he was doing when he created Andalusia and its Arab Baths.
This post is dedicated to my new friend Ze’ev Lavie, for being so adorable in taking his time to show me around day and night until dawn in the hidden and secret places of his beloved city of Tel Aviv.
The day I met Tonino Cacace, was a few weeks before my recent arrival at the hotel. Like a Greek god coming down from Olympus, he had someone call me in to introduce himself so that luckily, I could pay him my respects gracefully with an absolute stunning interview.