Word: villas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto and other Nazi victims were hidden in the villa, the empty cages, and among the animals. As the Germans took over the grounds for recreation and artillery storage, the zoo’s increasing exposure both endangered and camouflaged its secret occupants. It is a beautiful and intriguing story, and were it structured differently, there is no doubt that Ackerman?...
...bronze statue, and criminal proceedings in Italy against Marion True, former curator of the Getty, though a civil suit against True was dropped. The Getty's current Director Michael Brand, who came to the museum in 2005, after it emerged that many items in the collection of the Getty Villa were probably looted from Italian sites, said top museums must help set new tougher standards, though with limits in how far back a country can contest patrimony. He wants to see 1970 as a cutoff date. "Our previous policy was widely acclaimed as one of the strictest...
...PHUKET: Private pools at the 39-villa Trisara resort come as standard, if that's any indication of the cosseting on offer. For a proper splurge, however, book Trisara's top-dollar escape. For $35,000, you'll be waited on hand and foot at a seafront three-bedroom hideaway for five nights, before boarding a three-cabin luxury yacht, which counts a spa therapist and chef among the crew. You'll then be taken on a one-night cruise around Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Phi Phi, anchoring at Maya Bay - a location for the Danny Boyle movie...
...southern French town's ancient citadel, the hotel is a splendid venue for you and 25 of your favored henchmen to feast on the likes of suckling pig, while jugglers, fire eaters, sword-playing duelers and other menials perform for your amusement. Afterward, sleep off the wassailing in the Villa, a discreet building that is the hotel's top-tier accommodation. The bill for dinner comes to a trifling $7,000; the three-bedroom Villa costs $2,720 a night in high season. Well, you wouldn't be skulking around in low season, now would...
...respectable wealth surrounding the three-story villa that houses the E.G. Bührle collection is in keeping with its quiet residential neighborhood in Zurich. But it doesn't begin to betray the priceless treasure inside: one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art, with works by Delacroix, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Gauguin, Canaletto, Braque, Signac, Picasso and other masters from the 16th to the 20th centuries...