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Here, 15 resident postdoc fellows inhabit plush residences, dine on fresh gourmet food at an antique table and amble across acres of well-groomed Italian gardens. (Five full-time gardeners, provided by Harvard, tend to the century-old landscape.) A staffer at the villa explains that visitors cannot see the library for fear of disturbing the scholars who are “hard at work,” somehow escaping the temptation to pluck lemons from the villa’s trees in the sunny Tuscan weather. The massive library collection at their disposal seems at least as tempting?...
Bequeathed to Harvard by Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887—an art critic as renowned as he was wealthy—these 94,000 square feet of space house the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Study. The villa’s walls are covered in paintings by some of the top names of the Renaissance, pieces that make it the envy of museums worldwide. The facility garners a mention in most guidebooks to the area (though tours are hard to come by, offered only twice a week to no more than 8 people.) The pristinely-tended gardens, hedges perfectly...
...central market, framed by its delicate arches. Pick up some fruit or pungent Eritrean spices and wander through the back lanes toward the Catholic cathedral, an imposing red-brick edifice that dominates the skyline. Nearby Liberation Avenue, Asmara's main street, features the gorgeous Art Deco Cinema Impero and Italian-style cafes where craggy old men sip cappuccinos and smoke cigarettes. My favorite Art Deco building is on the outskirts of town: the fantastic Fiat Tagliero gas station, which has long horizontal overhangs that jut out like giant wings from the central building. It's painted in subtle pink...
...perilous even by day. Not so Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, and one of the prettiest?and most architecturally alluring?places on the continent. Here you can walk safely throughout the city, the better to marvel at the heritage of great buildings left over from the half-century of Italian rule that ended when the Allies ousted Mussolini's troops from the Horn of Africa in 1941. There are graceful villas that seem plucked straight from an Italian hilltop, wonderful Art Deco factories and warehouses, and monumental Italian-fascist government offices...
...Veronica is behind the whole thing." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, blaming his wife for his decision to have a face-lift...