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Italy does not simply offer romance. It insists on it — in the amber light of a Venetian canal at dusk, in the silence between cypress trees in the Val d'Orcia, in the weight of a Venetian glass raised over a lagoon. For the luxury traveler who values intimacy as much as grandeur, few destinations on earth rival Italy's gift for the private, the indelible, and the exquisitely unrepeatable.

A private guide to romantic escapes across the peninsula, for couples who have travelled enough to want something quieter than the postcard. Romantic travel, at the highest end, is rarely about romance in the sense that brochures use the word. It is not, in our long experience of arranging it, about rose petals on the bed or a private dinner on a beach with a heart traced in candles. Couples who have travelled deeply together, often for many years, are looking for something e

Few places in the world reward the traveler who arrives by sea. Cinque Terre is one of them.