[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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The large veranda overlooking the Gulf of Sorrento and the mementos it contains make the suite both splendid and magical. It is dedicated to the famous tenor, who often enjoyed booking into the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, and he chose to do so again in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the late 1930s - early 1940s, the barman of the Grand Hotel Vittoria in Pesaro, Alberto, created the celebrated and extremely hard-hitting “Calcio di mulo” – literally, the “mule’s kick” – based on dry vermouth, whisky and absinthe, which became a much-loved part of...