[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the late 1930s – early 1940s, the barman of the Grand Hotel Vittoria in Pesaro,...
Events and personalities
Casinò Vittoria
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During the Belle Epoque, the Grand Hotel Vittoria in Pesaro had its own private, authorised...
Pirandello’s veranda
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In October 1926 the playwright and writer Luigi Pirandello stayed in Pesaro, where he had...
The Negus’s cushions
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In November 1970, the Grand Hotel Miramare in Santa Margherita welcomed the emperor of...
The origins of the EU
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The international Pool of Coal and Steel Conference was held in the halls of the Grand Hotel...
A shot of grappa for Hemingway
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During WWI, Ernest Hemingway, while stationed as an ambulance driver at Villa Ca’ Erizzo on...
The Bridge and its grappa
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the 1948, after the complete destruction of the Ponte Vecchio at the end of the second...
A sip of grappa for the Queen Mother
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The mother of Queen Elisabeth knew Nardini grappa and it was so loved that it was the only...
A shot of grappa for D’Annunzio
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the final years of the 1800’s the tumultuous romance between actress Eleonora Duse and...
The debut of the Ussero
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The first rent contracts and private letters addressed to the aristocratic Agostini family...
Caffè Piccardo and Coppi’s final sprint
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Thirty seconds at the Turchino!” In sports cafés and balancing on windowsills to bring the...
Hitchcock and the Photographers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]e film director Alfred Hitchcock adored the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in Cernobbio and used to...