[vc_row content_aligment=”center”][vc_column width=”5/6″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-3 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-10 vc_col-sm-offset-1″][vc_column_text]
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[vc_column_text]Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]Durante i suoi recenti giorni di vacanza a Napoli, il nostro Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella ha fatto una piacevole sosta di mezz'ora al Gran Caffè Gambrinus di Napoli, accolto per un ottimo caffè dai nostri soci Antonio e Arturo Sergio. Mattarella, che proprio dal...
In occasione della Festa della Donna, l'8 marzo spettacolo da non perdere al Loggiato, l'affascinante creatura culturale della storica Pasticceria Gemmi di Sarzana: “Vissi per Maria”, la vera storia di Maria Callas raccontata dalla governante Bruna, di Roberto D’Alessandro, regia di Ilza Prestinari, con la...
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,...
Mostra personale di Rob@Dean Giovedì 9 Marzo alle ore 19.00. Le opere saranno poi esposte fino 20 Aprile 2017 allo storico Jamaica in Via Brera 32 a Milano. Dean, un artista introverso rimasto sempre in ombra per sua volontà cresce in giro per il mondo, lavorando...
is said that Antonino Ercolano was already serving them in 1800. He had invented the little La Favorita trattoria in order to turn to account the culinary arts he had learnt as a seminarian at the archbishopric. He had not managed to become a priest,...
The great Pesaro-born composer Gioachino Rossini was a sophisticated gourmet. He had haute cuisine in his veins, together with music. He acquired his sophisticated tastes during his long stay in Paris, from 1824 to 1836, when he was the acclaimed director of the Théâtre Italien....
[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...
[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...
[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...
[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,...