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Villa Feltrinelli Reckons Everyone Can Be an Artist

Where: Via Rimembranza 38-40 , Gargnano, BS, Italy, 25084

You know that sudden urge you get to become an artist when you travel somewhere beautiful? Usually you realize you wouldn’t even be capable of painting lipstick on a pig and give up while you still have your dignity intact, but the uber-posh Villa Feltrinelli on Lake Garda actually wants you to do something about it.

This September, they’re employing an artist in residence and encouraging you to discover your inner artist in residence with sketch pads available to all guests.

The official A-I-R IS Jennifer Griffin who’s taught at Syracuse University in New York and will be happy to help you construct a lake/flower/scene of inner despair, as appropriate. She’s even done a “primer booklet” of pretty villa scenes to get you in the mood.

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Villa Feltrinelli is Looking Hot Again (If You Have a Grand to Spare)

Where: Via Rimembranza 38-40 , Gargnano, BS, Italy, 25084

To a hotel geek, one of the most heartbreaking sights in the world is a once-spectactular hotel that has let itself go. After all, we're sure the Waldorf-Astoria looked pretty hot back in the day, but now Old Lady Waldorf could use a little work. If you're not prepared to continually update your gaff, then expect it to start looking a bit weathered as the time passes.

So it's good to hear of one place that does the whole aging-gracefully thing right. Villa Feltrinelli, the super, super-luxe retreat on the edge of Lake Garda, shuts up shop every year from October to April to tart itself up in the intervening months. This should mean, says the hotel, that everything's as good as new – and we're not going to quibble with that.

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