THE FUSE

The Italian term ‘villeggiatura’, which loosely translates to ‘resting in pleasant places’, has come to encapsulate the Edenic bliss of an endless summer – a prolonged stay away from home, in the countryside or by the ocean, where settling in one place allows you to adopt the local rhythms of life. Originating in Renaissance Venice, when the wealthy would escape the sweltering city heat in summer to their countryside villas, it was popularised in the 1960s, when families would pack up their Fiat 500s and spend weeks on end travelling the Amalfi Coast or Italian Riviera.