Wequassett is a Wampanoag word meaning “crescent on the water”—and each year, the Wampanoag people used the crescent moon of the vernal equinox to return from the forests to the crescent-shaped shoreline along the “elbow” of Cape Cod. Once you surrender to Wequassett’s serenity, it’s easy to understand why.
Marbella. The name alone resonates with beauty, and it’s equally so as you wander through the city’s labyrinthine narrow streets and into its open plazas, everything bathed in the light of the Mediterranean.
Throughout the Georgian era, Bath was second only to London as England’s most fashionable town, notable for its spas and its daily promenade along the Royal Crescent and within Beau Nash’s Assembly Rooms. Fittingly, it was in Bath that the 18th-century painter Thomas Gainsborough became one of most celebrated portraitists of his time.
