With snowfall right around the corner, people may be digging back out the snow shovels and snow blowers to ensure driveways, sidewalks and porches are clear.
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Greta Cross,
USA Today,
21 Jan. 2026
The exterior is painted in bold turquoise and purple stripes, string lights adorn the multilevel porch seating areas, live music is a regular occurrence, and the dining room walls are covered in neon signs, surf boards, bumper stickers, and all kinds of other beachy paraphernalia.
There was a hot-spring bath on the ground floor, where sliding doors opened onto an engawa veranda overlooking a spacious garden with maple, cherry and plum trees, a stone lantern and stream.
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Tim Hornyak,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
The municipality said the bar’s owner obtained a permit to build a veranda in 2015 and also carried out interior work at the bar that did not require a permit.
Organized in the manner of a traditional Italian Borgo, at the hotel’s heart—between the main building and a former chapel that now operates as a spa treatment space—is a central piazza, ideal for morning coffees and late afternoon aperitivo.
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Laura May Todd,
Vogue,
21 Dec. 2025
The view for those admiring the late Baroque masterpiece from the piazza above remains free.
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