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The Siren Song of Isola Li Galli

Private Islands, Winter 2011-12

The sirenic call of Isola Li Galli is supreme personal reconstruction — not the rocky destruction offered Jason and Ulysses, returning from ancient Troy. An archipelago of five islands, just off Italy’s Amalfi Coast and southwest of Positano, Isola Li Galli was believed to be the home of the Sirens, mythological women whose haunting music enticed sailors to their deaths on the cliffs. Beauty, serenity and wonder are the life-affirming calls today: Rudolf Nureyev heard them as have Andrea Bocelli and other very-deep-pocketed guests. Be allured and sail in to this ultimate vacation getaway.

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