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We sat down to talk in a room with one of Europe's most serene views: the tranquillity of Lake Geneva and the magnificent sprawl of the Mont-Blanc massif.

But she too values the tranquillity of island life.

In the rural tranquillity of central Ukraine, this man-made canyon is the by-product of 61 years of mining.

For years I had been hearing about the island of Pantelleria, the craggy, hard-to-get-to Eden with middle-of-nowhere tranquillity that sits 89 miles southwest of the island of Sicily and about 50 miles east of Tunisia.

Water is a popular motif with product designers because it symbolizes tranquillity and clarity.