Let's face it - showers are everywhere. In fact, if you're reading this, you probably have one or more in your house! Almost every hotel or motel room has one, too. And there are many different kinds of showers -- some have transparent walls, some are outside with jets of water coming out of stone walls, some have fantastic views of nature from the privacy of your own room, some are between the bedroom and the bathroom, some are beige and dull and made of one piece of molded fiberglass and there are thousands of variations. There are showers like rain or mist, showers that massage, water-conserving showers, and showers so forceful they'll pin you against the back wall of the bathroom if you aren't careful.
Plus, there are all kinds of designs -- modern, rustic, classical, gaudy, efficient, simple, you name it. If you Google Image search on "bathroom showers" or "hotel showers" or "fancy showers", you'll see an almost endless variety. We make take them for granted, but showers are a ubiquitous part of our First World lives.
(I had to point that out -- sadly, in the Third World, water resources are scarce, and people need water for cooking and drinking, and even clean water is hard to find. Using water to shower is a luxury they can't afford. So showers are not part of the lives of millions of people on Earth, and we all, collectively, need to work harder to fix the water resource problems of humanity. As I write this, Cape Town, South Africa, is facing a water crisis that could come to a head in 90 days or less.)
Returning to the subject -- what I am going to do here is to nominate the World's Greatest Shower.
I'll tell you how this started. I follow a lovely young lady, Alyssa Arce, on Instagram. Alyssa is a Playboy Playmate, a Wilhelmina model, a ring girl, and has a slender but curvy body. A very fine looking woman. In many of her pictures, she is artfully nude. (And damn those Instagram restrictions about showing nipples.)
In one of her Instagram pictures, and in an accompanying video, Alyssa was in a round, very large, open shower. (Truly nude, but not Instagram-censorable.) I wondered where that was, and it took me a little while to investigate the location in the picture. I didn't immediately find it, because the label had "Villa Tre Ville", and turned out to be easier to find when I discovered that it is more commonly known as "Villa TreVille". (That link goes to the property's Web site.)
It's in the stunning Italian side-of-a-cliff postcard city of Positano, on the Amalfi Coast. It used to be the home of iconic Italian movie director Franco Zeffirelli. Now the property has been divided into several highly luxurious villas. This is a place that the really, really rich come for a vacation.
It turns out that when Zeffirelli was still there, one of the frequent guests was renowned composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
The greatest shower in the world is located inside the Bernstein suite, in the Villa Rosa. The other suite is named after Nijinsky, the famous Russian ballet dancer. The shower used to be (as Alyssa noted in the caption to her picture) a bread-baking oven.
One of the things the shower offers is the opportunity for showering as a spectator sport. That is, while your paramour is bathing, you can easily watch, and vice versa. In fact, there could be a bunch of guests in there all communally showering.
But I digress. Below are pictures of the Bernstein suite, first the rooms, and then the shower. And I finish with the picture of Alyssa that so intrigued me. (I kept it small, so if you want larger, just click it.) If you want to see the video, find it on her Instagram.
Now, I am open to rivals to the title of World's Greatest Shower. I'm sure there are other great ones. But until they are formally presented as rivals, this one's my winner.
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| View with entrance to the bath |
And here's Alyssa Arce in the shower. Avert your eyes if the unclothed body of a lovely young woman offends you. Otherwise, go forth and conquer.
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