All posts with tag:fresco

From the outside, this pink building in one of the towns in the south of Portugal looks like a toy house. But what the interiors are hiding is no less fascinating: frescoes, lots of patterned mosaics, detailed wooden doors, and a large stone sink. The reconstruction plan assumed the placement of five separate apartments in…

Just 30 minutes from Florence and Siena, in the heart of the Chianti wine region, lies the 12th-century castle, now the Como Castello Del Nero. The nature of Tuscany, with its green hills and slender rows of cypress trees, is beautiful in itself, but this hotel fits into the local landscape just as wonderfully. The…