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Historic gardens to visit
On Isola Madre the camellias are already in flower in March, azaleas and proteas in April, hibiscus and bougainvillea in midsummer: five historic gardens in northern Italy that change their look with the seasons, and the golf courses to pair them with.
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Luxury LivingYachts and golf on the Costa Smeralda
In 1967 the Aga Khan IV founded the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, five years before Pevero opened its first hole. Sea and fairway have watched each other ever since: here is how a week of sailing and a week of golf fit together.
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Luxury LivingThe year's events for lovers of beauty
The Art Biennale closes on 22 November, the Music Biennale opens on 10 October, the Salone del Mobile returns on 13-18 April 2027: a twelve-month calendar, from October 2026 to September 2027, for anyone planning a golf trip around an exhibition, an opera or a regatta.
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Luxury LivingMilan between fashion and golf: three days of shop windows and fairways
Armani/Silos is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, and on Mondays Tolcinasco, Molinetto, Zoate and Carimate close too. To combine a fashion city with its golf courses, start from the calendar, not the shop windows.
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Luxury LivingIsland resorts to truly switch off: seven addresses with golf
Eight par 3s and one par 4, with a view of the island of Capraia: the nine-hole course behind the Hotel Hermitage on Elba is the smallest of seven island resorts with golf, and for many the reason they stay a whole week.
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Luxury LivingBetween one course and the next by helicopter: what you can really do in South Tyrol
From Andreus to Carezza, by car, takes about 85 minutes according to the hotel; Lana needs only 25. In a valley with eight courses within 85 minutes' drive, the helicopter tempts anyone who wants to skip the road. Here is what can actually be booked.
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Luxury LivingPrivate villa holidays near a golf course: where to find them
Villa Stabbi, at Castiglion del Bosco, has six bedrooms and comes with an off-road vehicle for guests to use. It is one of the villas that some of Italy's grand hotels offer alongside their rooms: here is which ones, and with which golf course.
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Luxury LivingGolf and cinema: Italy's famous film sets
In 1932 the first Venice Film Festival opened at the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and a dance on the terrace; today a links course lies about twenty minutes from the hotel, and other hotel sets have a course close by.
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Luxury LivingLuxury shopping near golf resorts
More than 230 shops and discounts of up to 70%, says Serravalle Designer Outlet, in the same municipality where a nine-hole course stretches among the Gavi vineyards: four outlets and a concept store, each paired with a course or a hotel.
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Luxury LivingItalian design in luxury hotels, from Gio Ponti to Olga Polizzi
A chair by Vico Magistretti takes its name from a golf club: the “Carimate” was born from the clubhouse restaurant the architect was designing. Italian design has left similar traces in the hotels where you sleep between rounds.
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Luxury LivingGolf and horses: resorts with riding stables
About twenty school horses, Haflingers, Icelandics and warmbloods, in a stable with a 60 by 24 metre indoor arena: in the Passeier Valley, anyone who stops playing golf can be in the saddle straight away.
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Luxury LivingArt near the golf courses: six museums not to miss
In 2026 the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona turns one hundred, and until 10 January 2027 an exhibition traces Carlo Scarpa's display design. It is one of six museums worth pairing with a golf course on rainy days, or on days of too much sun.
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Luxury LivingHill Towns for a Slow Holiday
A 13th-century tower with a Picasso in the bar, a Norman castle above the Alcantara gorges, a town Carducci called “of a hundred horizons”: five Italian villages where you can stay in a historic hotel with a golf course close by.
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Luxury LivingThe most beautiful lake roads to drive in Italy
Seventy tunnels in just over seven kilometres: the Gardesana between Gargnano and Riva, opened on 18 October 1931, was christened a \"meander\" by D'Annunzio. Three roads around the lakes of Lombardy and Piedmont to drive slowly, and one that is closed today.
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Luxury LivingThe villas of Lake Como worth visiting
Balbianello cannot be reached by car: you arrive on foot from Lenno or by water taxi, and that alone says how the villas of the Lario work. Five residences in which to spend a day without a phone signal, and which clubs lie closest.
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Luxury LivingOpera at the Arena di Verona and golf on Lake Garda: three days in summer 2027
The cheapest ticket for the Arena di Verona in 2027 starts at 22 euros and buys you a stone step: for the evening at the opera you need a cushion, for the day before a tee time. Here is how to fit the two together.
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Luxury LivingSailing and golf: the Italian places for both
On 16 May 2026 eight crews played the Pevero green; the next day they raced J/70s off Porto Cervo, and the final score added the two events together. It is the Vela & Golf, and it is not the only place in Italy where sea and fairway meet.
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Luxury LivingWatches and golf: a history of sponsorship
Tiger Woods has five green jackets, Jack Nicklaus six, Arnold Palmer four, Gary Player three: all four have been ambassadors for the same watch brand. Where did the alliance between haute horlogerie and golf come from, and where can you see it in Italy too?
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Luxury LivingVintage Cars on Lake Como: the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este
From 15 to 17 May 2026, fifty-four cars from thirteen countries paraded between the gardens of Villa d'Este and the park of Villa Erba, and the winner was a 1937 BMW 328 described as “the only special roadster ever built in Munich”. How the concours that has enlivened Lake Como since 1929 works.
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Luxury LivingHistoric palaces open to the public near golf courses
Golf Club Milano was founded in 1928 in the pheasantry of Victor Emmanuel II, and Circolo Golf Torino has played since 1956 in the park where the Savoy hunted: in Italy, some golf courses lie in the grounds of a royal palace.
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