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Take me there.

The Dark Hedges by S. Raybourne, Northern Ireland, Ballymoney, as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com

Beautiful and intriguing places around the world
{a sampling from 0ur ever-growing collection}

Maria Alm, Austria Salzburg Saalfelden by Norbert Maier, as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com

L'Eure en automne Uzès, France by André Becker as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com

53045 Montepulciano Province of Siena, Italy by Karl Demetz, as seen on linenandlavender.blogspot.com

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$"Take me there." page on linenandlavender.blogspot.com, {TRAVEL} A collection of intriguing places around the world, along with links to some of our favorite travel gear and inspiring travel magazines and books. http://www.linenandlavender.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_5.html$

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Design Daily - white linens and water view

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Boutique Hotel Feature - Les Rosées

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Les Rosées

Mougins, France

A 400 year old home offering four unique suites.

"A world of Provençal simplicity mixed with the luxury of our present times...

...Let Les Rosées be your home on the Côte d'Azur"

-excerpts from the website, Les Rosées

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Appennino by Giambologna

Giambologna's largest work, the mountain god, Appennino (1577)

Hidden Tuscany

by Massimo Listri and Cesare M. Cunaccia

Between 1568 and 1586 Bernardo Buontalenti built a great palace at Pratolino (Garden of Villa Demidoff at Pratolino Park) for Francesco I and Bianca Cappello. It was completed under Ferdinando I, and the residential building that resulted was sumptuous and rich in architectural inventions, in the late Mannerist style.

In the garden Bountalenti displayed a phantasmagoric corpus of scenic inventions and play of water. There was an abundance of water in the area and it fed the park of Pratolino via an aqueduct that was five kilometers long.

Buontalenti's imagination was directed at both the amusement and the amazement of the spectator. While the apparently bizarre play of water no longer exists, some treasures that reflect the grandiose nature of the project remain: the gigantic statue of Appennino by Giambologna, for instance, that hides a secret room in its head.

In his Voyage en Italie, Michel de Montaigne described the construction of this new divinity of the Mannerist pantheon: "they are building the body of a giant whose eyeball is three cubits large." —excerpt and image: Hidden Tuscany, Unusual Destinations and Secret Places

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