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4 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Alison Boshoff |Silvia Marchetti
The $500 million yacht the Koru is the most visible indication of Jeff Bezos' incredible wealth – and the plan was for it to moor at San Basilio in Venice for the duration of the festivities around his wedding to Lauren Sanchez this week. But following lively protests in the city, and given heightened global concerns, the couple have decided that it's safer to stay in the seas off Croatia, where they are aboard the Koru now.
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6 days ago | 
msn.com | Silvia Marchetti |Jordana Seal
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6 days ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti |Jordana Seal
After a two-year-long engagement, Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are due to get married in Venice, Italy. And while a multitude of celebrations are taking place to mark the nuptials next week, a source in Italy has revealed to MailOnline that the couple will officially tie the knot on June 27. They will say 'I do' on the island of San Giorgio, which is home to the famous Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, a 16th century Benedictine church.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Silvia Marchetti
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1 week ago | 
inews.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti
A London-based chef and mother-of-two has snapped up a fortuitous property deal – two homes in Sicily for just €1 (86p). Nade Stefanova, 39, bought a small palazzo in the village of Campofranco, central Sicily, where she soon plans to relocate with her two children. Originally from Bulgaria, Ms Stefanova has been living in London for 15 years. “I couldn’t overlook the fact that the €1 offer included a second house,” she told The i Paper.
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1 week ago | 
thenewworld.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti
It seems that many families who count themselves as members of the Italian nobility, and who own castles and towers, don’t have the money to maintain their historic properties. So they are giving them away, either to the state or to private investors eager to turn these lovely places into tourist venues. A friend of mine called Alice descends from a Tuscan aristocratic family dating back to the 1200s.
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1 week ago | 
inews.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti |Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
A British retiree says she is being forced to sell her villa in a cozy Spanish seaside town because soaring tourist numbers have pushed up living costs in the area. Anne Trust, 75, moved from London to Matarò, near Barcelona, after her husband died over a decade ago. She bought a three-bedroom villa with a pool and a two-and-a-half acre garden filled with plants and olive trees in Matarò’s lush countryside for only €200,000 (£170,530) in 2012.
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2 weeks ago | 
inews.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti
When George Laing followed his dreams of buying a one-euro home in Sicily, he was prepared for the hard graft that would follow. Instead, he found he had also purchased a small treasure of old jewels and artefacts – some of which he has now sold for €2,500 (£2,100), which will cover a significant chunk of his renovation costs. Laing, 32, an antiques and jewellery dealer from Eastbourne, bought the abandoned house in 2022 in the Sicilian town of Mussomeli.
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4 weeks ago | 
inews.co.uk | Silvia Marchetti
Sebastian Ross rented in London for most of his life, but it was after he moved onto a boat in Sussex that he eventually bought his first home. Mr Ross, 35, a creative strategist, bought a six-bedroom house in Sicily for €1 (84p). He discovered the house in the medieval village of Sutera and believes it would cost close to £1m if it were in London, even with the same level of work needed to renovate it.
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1 month ago | 
cntraveller.de | Silvia Marchetti |Assala Lakbiri
Gardasee Hotels: Die malerischsten Rückzugsorte zwischen Alpenpanorama und Seeromantik. Für viele Norditaliener:innen ebenso wie für Münchner:innen, die der sommerlichen Hitze und gelegentlich entfliehen möchten, ist der Gardasee ein beliebter Ort zum Entspannen, Sonnenbaden und Entdecken. Dank der umliegenden Alpen bleibt die Luft selbst im Hochsommer relativ frisch.
