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Bellagio is the single most beautiful place I have ever been to. But the beauty is only one part of its magic.
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What is it about this place that brings about such bonding without the typical boarding school annoyances of cliques and coteries? No contests, no battles, just respect and esteem.
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I seem to recall there were exactly 365 steps. Down. Then, especially, up.
Allan Gurganus

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Some echo of all the thinking that has gone on at the Villa Serbelloni resonates in its elegant hallways. Being there, you are subject to the quiet sweep of that fine history, and it carries you with it to places you might never otherwise have gone.
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I often felt, walking the corridors of the Villa on the way to the machine that dispensed delicious cappuccino, passing the tall Chinese porcelain vases, climbing the curving stairwell, that we were all lucky ghosts, perpetual shades residing in one of the most graceful houses on earth.
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I placed the desk in my study in front of the window, which gave onto a stupendous view of Lake Como. As far as I was concerned, I was in paradise.
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I absolutely loved my study (Veduta), which was perfect for a poet; Ive decided that my next study has to be round, even if I have to build it myself in the backyard!
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Just beyond the window frame, almost near enough to touch, were the vertical plume of a poplar, a group of silvery olive trees, and another tree that may have been a maple that turned redder each day.
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The Frati allowed team members the privacy of individual roomsall with beautiful viewsfor reading and writing. It also offered generous varieties of communal space for discussion and teamwork.
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The lights at night are like stars. Even in the dark the cedar trees are darker and the few mountains, as in a Van Eyck, are grayer, a lighter dark in the bright moonlight.
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