Sardinia contains approximately 7,000 surviving nuraghi — truncated-cone towers of dry-stone construction, built between approximately 1800 and 700 BCE, distributed across the island at an average density of one per 3.5 square kilometres. The density is without parallel in the prehistoric Mediterranean: no other territory of equivalent size contains anything approaching this concentration of Bronze Age monumental architecture. What the nuraghi were for — their social functio

The terms "DMC" (Destination Management Company) and "private concierge" are used interchangeably in a significant proportion of incentive travel briefs, which is the source of a persistent confusion about what each actually provides and what they cost.

The English country house retreat is the most architecturally and programmatically specific form of corporate residential programme available in the United Kingdom, and the least understood by planners who have not used it before.

Lake Como is the most requested Italian destination for board retreats and senior leadership programmes and the most consistently mishandled. The mishandling takes two forms: the large hotel that hosts the group as one of fifteen other corporate groups occupying the property simultaneously, or the villa hire that provides the setting but not the programme.

The Etna DOC was created in 1968, making it one of Sicily's oldest wine appellations. For most of its history it was a source of undistinguished bulk wine — high-alcohol red produced from the Nerello Mascalese and sold north to augment the Burgundy négociant blends that required colour and body.

Ponza is not undiscovered. It has been continuously inhabited since at least the Bronze Age, used as an imperial Roman exile destination, occupied by the Bourbons of Naples who built the town's characteristic painted fishing port, and has been a summer destination for Roman and Neapolitan families for at least a century.