[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the enchanting Sala Grande of Caffè Poliziano in Montepulciano, the film director Federico Fellini used to enjoy sitting in the little lounge number two (the first on the left in the photo). In August 1992, Fellini came, with his wife Giulietta Masina, to the Caffè...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The suites at the Grand Hotel Vittoria in Pesaro bear the names of famous people, from both present and past, who have stayed here over the past hundred years. These personalities include Luigi Pirandello, Baron and Baroness Rothschild, the Aga Khan and the Agnelli family,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During his long stay in Europe in the 1960s, the American trumpeter Chet Baker, who is famous for his lyrical style and his enormous contribution to cool jazz, stopped off at the Albergo Universo in Lucca, where for a few days he took room number...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]1933, on the scenic terrace of the Grand Hotel Miramare of Santa Margherita, Guglielmo Marconi made the world’s first broadcast of telegraph and radio-telephone signals. The 60-cm microwaves were received at a distance of 150 kilometres. As well as doing research work, during his stay...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In February 1947 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh spent a holiday at the Grand Hotel Miramare in Santa Margherita. They stayed in Suite 118. For the occasion, a private screening of Gone with the Wind was shown at the Teatro Centrale in Santa Margherita, in...