This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.

FORBES: The Other Tuscany

Though he could not read their hieroglyphic script, Evans was convinced by the remains of their art and architecture that the Minoans were every bit as brilliant and sophisticated as the classical Greeks.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

Here, the campus of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology is recognizable by its classical architecture.

BBC: A perfect day in Boston

Mr. Stern is one of the country's most fluent users of classical language for architecture.

WSJ: Bricks and Immortality | George W. Bush Presidential Center | By Julie V. Iovine