[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most cinematographic" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text] A journey through film curios for cinema lovers. The Excelsior Palace Hotel in Rapallo was the set for some of the first external film shoots with Battesimo di Nave (1914), played and directed by Giano Paolo Rosmino, a historic name...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most literary" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text] With the prize of the same name, which has been celebrating Italy’s finest wordsmiths since 1926, the Trattoria Bagutta in Milan is one of the first three restaurants in the world to become home to a literary award of national...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most Swiss pastry shops" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Sandri in Perugia and Stoppani in Bari are the last two historical pastry shops still run by the heirs of the over 100 Swiss pastry cooks who came down to Italy in the nineteenth century to seek their...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most “Dolce Vita”" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Hotel Excelsior in Via Veneto, Rome, a legendary venue in the Sixties from which the paparazzi started out on their sorties to capture the stars of Hollywood and their lovers: encircled by dish flashes, its front entrance was immortalised...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most vertiginous" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]The Bellevue Syrene, Excelsior Vittoria, Imperial Tramontano and Royal hotels in Sorrento, with breathtaking views of the Gulf of Naples.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=".vc_custom_1491570506256{margin-top: 20px !important;}"][vc_basic_grid post_type="listing-item" max_items="10" grid_id="vc_gid:1492003781899-6c246285-b96c-3" taxonomies="283"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...