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A Custom Italy Honeymoon: How to Design the Perfect Italian Journey for Two

Italy is one of those destinations that rewards preparation. It holds more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country, more Renaissance masterworks than can be seen in a lifetime, and a coastline that shifts from dramatic limestone cliffs to fine-sand beaches within a few hours' drive.

The private art of the unforgettable celebration — what we have learned, over a decade of work, about Italian weddings done at the highest level. There is a particular look that comes over our most experienced wedding planners on the first call with a new client. It is a look of careful listening rather than of comfortable certainty. The reason is simple: every Italian wedding at the level we plan is, in some real sense, a wedding that has not been done before. The venue has

A connoisseur's guide to the Itria Valley's masserie — and why March is the right month to find Puglia in the act of becoming itself again. The first thing to know about Puglia in March is that the almond trees are in flower. They flower across the Salento and the Itria Valley in a rolling tide that begins in late February and finishes by the end of March, and to drive a country road between Locorotondo and Cisternino in those weeks is to drive through a kind of slow white st