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fabric of life; Collector extraordinaire Alistair McAlpine and his glamorous Greek wife, Athena, have transformed a fourteenth-century convent in Italy's forgotten south into a haven of bohemian high style.
Byline: Hamish Bowles
To be frank, I probably was the girl least likely to end up in a convent when I was at school!" laughs Athena McAlpine, the stylish chatelaine of the Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli in Puglia, the starkly beautiful land at the southernmost tip of the heel of Italy.
The worldly McAlpine, 34, a toothsome beauty who was born in Ireland to Greek parents and educated in England, Florence, and Venice, has not, however, taken up holy orders. Instead, with her husband, Alistair, Lord McAlpine of West Green, she has transformed a fourteenth-century convent from the ruin that he discovered a decade ago into a bed-and-breakfast ...
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