"Francis Ford Coppola returns to his roots with his latest boutique hotel: Palazzo Margherita, set in his grandfather’s hometown in the south of Italy."
USA TODAY Travel Tips: Lodging in Flores, Guatemala - Sep 01, 2011
"The town of Flores is on a small island in Lake Peten Itza in the Guatemalan jungle, El Peten. A short causeway connects Flores to the mainland on one end and to Saint Elena, its sister city, on the opposite end. Both towns usually are lumped together and referred to as 'Flores.' They serve as the gateway to the Mayan ruins in Tikal National Park 45 minutes away."
NOWNESS: Coppola’s Belize - Turtle Inn - Apr 08, 2011
"Just beyond the scope of Francis Ford Coppola’s Turtle Inn lies the recently unveiled Beach House, a paragon of natural modernism photographed for the first time by NOWNESS photographer Mauricio Alejo. Architect Laurent Deroo, whose Harajuku A.P.C. store served as a location in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, was commissioned by the Coppola family to create the teak wood, slab slate and aluminum design."
Situated in the Chiquibul Forest, Caracol is the most extensive Mayan site in Belize. This Classic-period site is noted for the rare use of giant date glyphs on circular stone altars.