[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most scoop-prone" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Grand Hotel Villa d’Este at Cernobbio, in the province of Como, where in 1933 after long and shrewd waiting, press photographer Fedele Toscani (father of Oliviero) managed to capture the romance between Bessie Wallis Warfield, better known as Wallis Simpson,...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most creative" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text] Caffè Fantoni in Villafranca, Verona, where the owner created something to celebrate every illustrious enterprise. To name but one: “l’Acqua di Fiume” – Fiume (“river”) Water – to honour D’Annunzio. [/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:1492004155431-dbf70830-96e4-8" taxonomies="286"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most unpaid" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Bar Jamaica in Milan has a list of illustrious debtors, starting with Mussolini: then editor of Popolo d’Italia, he disappeared one morning in 1922 on his way to Rome, leaving a sad bill to gather dust.[/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"...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most difficult to read" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]Caffè Paszkowski (pronounced “Paskovsky”) in Florence, nicknamed “Pazzoschi” by the Florentines, after the rather bizarre (“pazzo”) characters who went there in the early twentieth century.[/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:1492004860223-e4c33c9c-d1a1-10" taxonomies="288"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The most Napoleonic" font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_column_text]The Antica Locanda Mincio, in Valeggio sul Mincio, in the province of Verona, where Napoleon stayed in 1796 after forcing the Austrians over the river.[/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:1492004920752-52cdfebf-a787-9" taxonomies="289"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...