In this article, the author describes Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy, which offers a stately perch from which a few lucky scholars and artists can gaze at the Mediterranean and gather their thoughts making it so conducive to the study of arts and letters. The center provides scholars and artists midcareer and older with room, board, and studio for a month. They are housed in three villas on the Italian Riviera overlooking the Mediterranean. Each year 50 fellows spend one month at the center, from September to December, or February to May, in cohorts of eight. Partners are also welcome. Fellowships are awarded in archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film and video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and the visual arts.