[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the final years of the 1800’s the tumultuous romance between actress Eleonora Duse and...
A shot of grappa for D’Annunzio
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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...
Hollywood Festival
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] From 1988 to 1992, the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in Cernobbio was the venue for the Festival...
The “Ricordi Floor” at Villa d’Este
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in Cernobbio opened to guests in 1873 and the first to step...
The K. u. K. Museum
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Forty thousand items. Rare, unusual, antique. Period implements used by peasants and...
Sissi
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The ethereal, stunningly beautiful wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi was extraordinarily...
Adri Cake
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In 1959, when her family took over Stratta, Adriana Monzeglio started looking after the...
Stratta Sweets
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]e are probably the world’s only soft-centred sweets still entirely made by hand. The original...
Giandujotti just as they were in 1867
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Soft and delicate on the palate, Giandujotti by Stratta are an exquisite combination of...
Torta Paradiso
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Torta Paradiso first came into existence in Enrico Vigoni’s pastry shop in the late...