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When Karim Aga Khan IV first saw the land he had purchased in Capriccioli, a coastal area in the northwest of Sardinia, there was practically nothing around it. Years later, he recalled that in 1960, it took several hours to travel from Capriccioli to Olbia, which was 25 kilometers away, and at that time, there was no potable water, and no phone se...

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At the dawn of the 1960s, John Duncan Miller, a Cambridge graduate and finance mogul nearing retirement, former Washington correspondent for the Times and with a past in the British intelligence services in the American capital, finds himself sailing off the coast of north-western Sardinia.  On his return to London, word about the extraordinary and...

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The boom in American tourism has been touching all Mediterranean countries for some time now. American travelers in Spain grew by 14.6 % in a single year, in Portugal by 34.2 %, and in Greece by nearly 30 %.At home, record tourism numbers are more than just a trophy to show off. Tthe boom in tourism is practically holding the Italian economy up. “I...

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