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Quercus’s Ember Lodge, oriented to catch the morning light. Fleeing the Years of Lead in the 1970s, a branch of the Italian aristocracy traded Milan for rural Georgia—where their family estate has since become one of the South’s most singular hotels By Jennifer Noyes On 4,000 acres along the Flint River in Gay, Georgia, about 90 minutes from Atlanta, down an inconspicuous driveway, you’ll find Quercus. The hotel recently joined Relais & Châteaux, alongside Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee, and L...