In arrivo la Guida 2017

In uscita la Guida 2017 Locali storici d'Italia, dedicata quest'anno ai locali storici d'Italia che sono stati e sono artefici e promotori di cultura, per la loro stessa essenza o attraverso gli eventi di cui sono sede elettiva e straordinaria. Ancora un'edizione tematica molto particolare,...

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The most family-run

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most family-run" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text] Of the almost 240 historic establishments in the Association, almost 100 have been run by the same family for two or more generations. Here we see those with the longest lineages, in a list of great prestige that pays tribute...

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The warmest in war

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The warmest in war" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]During the Second World War, some members of the Agnelli family, the owners of the Fiat car company, spent the winter at the Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci in Florence and, in great secrecy, had a lorry-load of coal brought to...

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The most “original furnishings”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most “original furnishings”" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]The first three floors of the Grande Albergo Ausonia & Hungaria on the Venice Lido are adorned with original Liberty-style furniture of 1905, created by master cabinetmaker Eugene Quarti of Milan, who exhibited some items at the Paris Salon...

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The first goliard

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The first goliard" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]In 1820, there was a famous episode of goliardery at the Caffè dell’Ussero in Pisa, which was described by Ersilio Michel in Maestri e scolari dell’Università di Pisa nel Risorgimento nazionale (Sansoni, 1949). A certain Ricci, a student from Livorno,...

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The most sealed

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most sealed" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Closed in 1979 upon the death of Irma Marescotti, the Liquoreria Pasticceria Marescotti Cavo in Genoa remained sealed, quite literally, for almost thirty years. In 2006, Alessandro Cavo obtained permission from the Marescotti estate to reopen the establishment. When he...

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