[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]e film director Alfred Hitchcock adored the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este in Cernobbio and used to spend his summer holidays here from 1925 – when he shot a short scene for his first feature film, The Pleasure Garden in the hotel park – until 1970. It...
[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 di Hollywood. Many famous actors and actresses turned up: Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, June Allison, Joseph Cotten, and Claire Trevor, to name but a...
[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 through the door was the publisher Giulio Ricordi, who took over an entire floor of the Regina d’Inghilterra wing for the whole season. Giuseppe Verdi was one of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Forty thousand items. Rare, unusual, antique. Period implements used by peasants and craftsmen in Val Venosta. Long-forgotten workplaces, furnishings, and collections of Tyrolese memories. But also furnishings and objects that once belonged to Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Sissi. This is the extraordinary K.u.K....
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The ethereal, stunningly beautiful wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi was extraordinarily astute. Despite her apparent fragility, she enjoyed perfect health and travelled the length and breadth of Europe, always adored and revered by her subjects. This is how she is described by Karl Platino...