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A boutique hotel in the gardens of Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli in Puglia, Italy, July 5, 2022. In the southernmost region of Salento, sometimes described as the "heel" of Italy's "boot," the Ionian Sea is to the west, the Adriatic to the east, and the countryside is filled with stone walls and twisted olive trees, as well as fields of long golden grass and wildflowers. (Susan Wright/The New York Times)