The Albergo Italia at the Great St. Bernard Pass is the highest historic hotel in Italy: sixteen beautiful suites at an elevation of 2,474 meters.
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The most art-gallery
Rome’s Antico Caffè Greco, with over 300 works on display in its galleries, is the largest private art gallery open to the public in the world.
I più piccoli
Caffè Mulassano and Caffè al Bicerin, both in Turin, are the smallest historic cafés in the world.
The largest cafés
Caffè Pedrocchi in Padua, a veritable monumental complex, and Caffè Meletti in Ascoli Piceno, an elegant little building on Piazza del Popolo.
The most vandalised
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.
The most copied in the world
Caffè Florian in Venice, Caffè Greco in Rome, and Caffè Cova in Milan: armed with international patents, they are increasingly trying to protect themselves.
The deepest in legend
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 most Garibaldian
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 in Marsala.
The most Napoleonic
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.
The most difficult to read
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 most scoop-prone
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 throne of England in order to marry her.
The most vertiginous
The Bellevue Syrene, Excelsior Vittoria, Imperial Tramontano, and Royal hotels in Sorrento, with breathtaking views of the Gulf of Naples.