I Stayed at the Real White Lotus Hotel in Sicily—And Never Wanted to Leave
glamour.comThe Talented Mr. Ripley at an age that was, frankly, far too young—despite the film’s sophisticated trappings, Jude Law does get brutally clubbed about the head with an enormous wooden oar—I have been a sucker for the glamorous promise of an Italian vacation.
It may be a cliché, but the reason I’ll always return to Italy’s boot is that it’s filled, from thigh to heel, with places that feel as though they could exist nowhere else in the world—from the mind-boggling engineering of the Venetian waterways to the devil-may-care energy of Naples with its whizzing motorcycles and crumbling Baroque churches.
Still, nowhere in Italy has captured my imagination like Sicily—or has felt so uniquely its own place. A crossroads for various Mediterranean civilizations for centuries (and still to this day), its rich and incredibly varied landscapes serve as a backdrop for one of the country’s most strange and seductive cultures.
The seafood pasta isn’t half bad either. Last year I was lucky enough to travel to this sprawling island to to its hotels, with a specific focus on two new openings.
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