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This yearâs annual Hot List of the best new hotels from around the world is a story of resilience. Despite enormous hardship in the travel industry, exceptional properties have continued to open across the globe (nearly a thousand last year in the U.S. alone). As always with this endeavor, each of the 69 picks on this yearâs list was safely vetted by our international network of correspondents. Â But as weâve learned in the past year, everything is connected, which is why weâve also expanded the scope of hot to include restaurants, transportation, and destinations, as well as more news weâre excited about set for later this year. In spite of it all, these imminent openings and launches are a success story all their own. We think theyâre a pretty great way to mark the 25th anniversary of this list.
Caligula's purported pleasure garden to go on public display following decade-long excavation Roman emperor Caligula, who ruled briefly almost 2,000 years ago, was considered a tyrant, a hedonist and even a pervert. And much of his debauchery purportedly took place at an imperial pleasure garden called Horti Lamiani. In recent years, a vast garden complex believed to be his has been painstakingly unearthed and restored. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Jan 26, 2021 5:22 PM ET | Last Updated: January 26 A fresco from the Julio-Claudian era found in the excavation of Horti Lamiani, the imperial garden sprawled across Rome's Esquiline Hill.(Fabio Caricchia/Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma)
Caligulaâs Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored Relics from the favorite hideaway of ancient Romeâs most infamous tyrant have been recovered and put on display by archaeologists. Â A theatrical mask in marble dust, recovered from the Horti Lamiani, the pleasure garden of the Roman emperor Caligula.Credit...Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times By Franz Lidz The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula â officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus â was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empireâs most tyrannical ruler. As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.