Castello di Miramare and Anakin Skywalker's Idyll

    Some place names are  attractive enough to be claimed by the whole world. 'Copacabana' is one such; 'Tivoli' is another (as a child I thought 'Tivoli' was a Bengali coinage, invented by the residents of a well-known apartment building in Calcutta). Miramar is another such name. The word, which means 'sea-view',  is apparently of [...]