Since 1867, Caffè Camparino in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan has recorded a total of 87 instances of broken windows caused by political demonstrators who were rampaging under the arcades of Piazza del Duomo and in the Galleria....
Caffè Florian in Venice, Caffè Greco in Rome, and Caffè Cova in Milan: armed with international patents, they are increasingly trying to protect themselves....
In un muro dell’Hotel Cocumella, di S. Agnello di Sorrento, la leggenda racconta che l’ultima amante di Shelley, Claire Jane Clairmont, nascose una teca che conteneva il cuore del poeta, avuto in dono da Byron, che lo strappò dal corpo dell’amico affogato a Lerici....
The Bar del Tasso in Bergamo served as a recruitment point for the many young people who joined Garibaldi for the Expedition of the Thousand; the Antica Focacceria S. Francesco in Palermo was the first “food stop” for Garibaldi and the Thousand after they landed...
The Antica Locanda Mincio, in Valeggio sul Mincio, in the province of Verona, where Napoleon stayed in 1796 after driving the Austrians across the river....
It is the Caffè Paszkowski in Florence (pronounced “Pascovschi”), nicknamed “pazzoschi” by the Florentines because of the somewhat eccentric characters who frequented it in the early 20th century....
The Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in Cernobbio, in the province of Como, where photojournalist Fedele Toscani (Oliviero’s father), in 1933, through shrewd and patient stakeouts, managed to photograph the idyll between Bessie Wallis Warfield—better known as Wallis Simpson—and Edward VIII, who would soon abdicate the...
The Bellevue Syrene, Excelsior Vittoria, Imperial Tramontano, and Royal hotels in Sorrento, with breathtaking views of the Gulf of Naples....
Sandri di Perugia is the last historic pastry shop still run by the descendants of the more than 100 Swiss pastry chefs who, in the 1800s, came to Italy in search of fortune and opened workshops and shops that have become “legends” in the art...
A journey through fascinating facts for film history enthusiasts, presented in the order in which they were discovered. Some of the earliest outdoor film shots were shot at the Excelsior Palace Hotel in Rapallo for the film "Battesimo di nave" (1914), starring and directed by...