GLORIA:After breakfast, Barry and Keith left for Rome via train and planewhere they were due to fly home to Florida the next day. Kirsten and Oz left via automobile for a 3-day hiking trip through Switzerland.Now we were nine. Dinner, enjoying fine wines, recounting happy memories of this vacation, packing up, and our last night in Italy.Arrivederci Saraceno.

GLORIA: Arrival at our home for the next 8 days, Villa Saraceno, in the small village of Finale di Argugliaro, was an awesome sight.A splendid early example of Andrea Palladio's architecture, it was built about 1545 in a grand manner.Palladio (1508-1580) was inspired by Roman prototypes to design buildings both for pleasure and for a working farm.They were always symmetrical, utilizing arches and columns. Saraceno stands on about 50 acres of land, surrounded ...