elegance hotel set in Bardolino

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It is a elegance hotel set in Bardolino and suited for weddings, excursions, meetings, fun, tranquility and busy holidays by Lake Garda. With beautifully-presented leisure facilities, the Justify provides first-class betterment. The Vividness Hotel has been nominated as a finalist for the Conde Cartoonist Johansens Most Excellent Hotel Laurels in 2009.

Flat and suites are large (from 20 – 50 sqm) with superpower showers or current baths, and comforted king-size or form beds. Most rooms someone a close balcony, patch the suites article kingsize beds, maelstrom baths or knowledge showers and a counter with disentangled easy drinks and h2o.

The  Hotel offers unrestrained bike charter and is a perfect component for mount bike or cycle vacations. The Beautify hotel offers a wonderful quiet explorer, 6000 square-metres of lush gardens, with area trees, olive trees, and oleanders, waterfalls and fountains, 3 aquatics pools around.

Dinner is served in the Gallery restaurant and around the obstacle, time barbecues are often held on the rooftop terrace, where you can savour mythical lakeside sunsets.

The Dives in Misericordia Church

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The Dives in Misericordia Church in Rome has been consecrated.Designed by American architect Richard Meier, the church project had won the international competition organized by the Vicariate in Rome. The simple yet severe design, which manages to combine the sacredness of the interior with the liveability of the large external spaces, features three impressive white concrete sails that swell out as if blown by an easterly wind.
As the main technical sponsor, Italcementi had been following the progress of the project closely, by providing assistance with construction techniques and supplying highly technological and innovative construction materials, amongst which the new white cement Bianco TX Millennium is worthy of note. The patented formulation of this product is actually able to ensure unparalleled and time-enduring white.In addition, Italcementi had developed a special concrete mix design providing continuous supervision during production and erection steps.

Pinacoteca di Brera

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Pinacoteca di Brera in Milano is housed in a large palace from the 14th/15th centuries. It was built for the Jesuits who founded a school, a library and an observatory here. The original art collection at Brera was intended as study material for the students at Accademia di Belle Arti, which was founded in 1776. Many of the paintings came from closed churches and convents in northern Italy. Through the years the collection has been extended by donations and purchases.

The museum now houses one of the most important art collections in Italy, and many masterpieces can be seen in the 38 exhibition rooms. There are mostly paintings by Italian artists and they are arranged in chronological order and with rooms with paintings of different schools. Among others you will find paintings by Rafael, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Foppa and Bellini.
The museum is open Tuesday – Sunday between 8.30 – 19.15.
Admission was 10 Euro (February 2009).
Directions: Metro 3 – Manzoni

Nhow hotel,

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This is one  modern 4-star hotel in Milan, Italy. The Nhow hotel was built in 2005. It’s located a bit outside the city center in Via Tortona, a re-purposed industrial park. The area has enticing restaurants and bars, exhibition center, design and photography studios and shops.

The hotel offers 249 rooms: 74 standard rooms, 135 superior rooms, 23 junior suites, 10 breakout rooms, 3 suites, 3 spa suites, 1 presidential suite.  Rooms are well laid out and spacious.  All rooms are stylishly decorated and offers: Satellite TV, mini-bar, bathroom with shower and /or bathtub and neon lighting, with connection.

Services in hotel are: Concierge, Room Service, Meeting Facilities, Laundry, Newspapers, City maps, Dry Cleaning, Ironing Service, Fax/Photocopying.

2 fascinating (and fabulous) Florentine fashion museums

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Laura Mongillo in Florence—

When people think of Italian fashion their mind usually goes straight to Milan and Rome. But it’s actually Florence that is the birthplace of many of Italy’s most famous designers and fashion houses such as Gucci, Roberto Cavalli, Emilio Pucci, Salvatore Ferragamo and the up and coming Patrizia Pepe.

With all these famous names and a rich history in fashion and luxury, the city takes extreme pride in their “Made in Florence” brands and jumps at the chance to display its history and future. For example, Florence is still extremely famous for its leather goods, especially bags and shoes and is the home of Polimoda, one of Italy’s most famous design schools.

So with this in mind, check out these fashion-minded museums that for a small entry fee will satisfy any curiosity you might have about Florentine and Italian fashion.

Fashion history at the Ferragamo store

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Piazza Santa Trinita’ 5
Hours: Wed-Mon 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Ticket: €5
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The €5 entry fee is a measly price to pay for this state-of-the-art museum, covering the life, work and innovation of Salvatore Ferragamo. Whether that €5 ticket will then lead you to buy €800 shoes is a different question…

Even if you’re not obsessed with shoes and fashion, you’ll be drawn into this warm contemporary museum space, housed under the medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni (pictured below). High quality video pieces and iPad-like touch screens display a mix of articles, photos, quotes and sketches.

While Ferragamo is known for his famous shoe designs, the museum points out the innovation involved in his designs, displaying his various patents for shoe components such as the shank or his ingenious inventions such as the cork wedge. You’ll find various stories about his resourcefulness in using raffia, cork, and cellophane during World War II when leather was scarce, as well as his studies on the foot, weight and balance.

The Palazzo Spini Feroni

The Ferragamo Museum also offers a small movie theater (at the moment showing an Italian film-style commercial for Ferragamo), a temporary exhibition space that usually features studies on the company, artisan crafts, or some of Ferragamo’s famous clients and multiple interactive video components explaining the company’s history and future. My favorite station included real reproductions of Ferragamo designs that you place onto the table’s screen and a description and history immediately pops up, in both English and Italian.

However the most interesting aspects relate to shoemaking itself, an art almost lost to modern technology. A video shows the process of making a red patent leather pump from start to finish, focusing on the handmade quality of the shoes, despite the use of some machinery.

Another room houses three wall-size screens, two of which show the shoemaking process. Another shows a pianist playing a piece that I found both mesmerizing and calming at the same time.

The Ferragamo museum isn’t huge, but it holds little secrets and surprises. I was captivated not only by the company’s history, but also by its high-tech displays. It’s cheapo price, which is donated to a scholarship for young designers, only makes it more irresistible.

Galleria del Costume
Palazzo Pitti
Ticket: €7 (includes admission to Boboli Gardens)

This royally fascinating museum is tucked away in the Pitti Palace, the Medici residence-turned-museum that is also home of the world famous Boboli Gardens. In fact, the €7 ticket allows entrance to not only the Boboli Gardens, but also to the Costume Gallery and the Silver and Porcelain museums. So when visiting Boboli, be sure to take an hour out of your garden time to stop into this jewel of a gallery.

The museum houses a collection of clothing from the 16th century onwards, with a slight emphasis on Italian pieces and designers. Special pieces include the funeral clothes of famous Medici ruler Cosimo I and other royals.

The combination of the splendid rooms of the palace with the decadent fragile clothing on display will transport you back in time and allow you to better appreciate the craftsmanship of each piece. Over 6,000 pieces of historic clothing and costumes are found in the archives and are switched out periodically to update the exhibits and protect the clothing from damage.

On its own, the admission price may not be worth it, but as a free addition to your Boboli ticket, its definitely worth a visit!

Ristorante Cracco Peck di Milano

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Cracco Peck is a restaurant in Milan, Italy. Originally opened in 2001 as Cracco-Peck (an offshoot of the famous Milan food store, Peck), Ristorante Cracco is the flagship restaurant of Venetian-born Carlo Cracco. Carlo Cracco is a lot more than an emerging chefs, he is the leader of the new group of Italian young chefs. The restaurant is set in an elegant building in the city centre and its cuisine re-examines Milan’s tradition. It is no surprise that this year Ristorante Cracco has climbed an impressive 21 places up the list.

The cuisine of Carlo Cracco is emphasise from a unique wine cellars of 1800 labels, the result of an accurate selection from all the best wines present on the world market. His specialties include white truffle dishes and risottos.The kitchen offers typical Milanese recipes with the addition of creative touches and international influences. A typical dishes are cassoeula (stewed pork rib chops and sausage with Savoy cabbage), osso buco (stewed veal shank with a gremolata sauce), risotto alla milanese (with saffron and beef marrow), busecca (stewed tripe with beans), and brasato (stewed beef or pork with wine and potatoes).

 Features: Celeb Chef, Celeb Sightings, Classic, Wine List Extensive, Good for Groups, Good Service, Desserts Exceptional, Handicapped Accessible, Hot Spot, Metrosexual, Molecular Gastronomy, Power Lunch, Private Parties, Prix-Fixe, Uptown Style.

UNA Hotel One, Siracusa

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One Hotel is a non conventional 4 stars design hotel. It is located in a panoramic position, a 10-minute drive from Ortygia, Siracusa’s historic centre. This hotel combines the urban intellect with minimalist design. Hotel has a wide and safe free open parking.

Offers 44 high-profile architectural rooms and suites, 5 typologies everyone different to the others. Many intriguing design elements that didn’t quite work. They are all equipped with modern comforts such as A/c , Flat TV , Minibar. Bathrooms are also decorated in a original style with black ceramics and modern amenities.

Activities: Sauna – Fitness Centre – Solarium – Spa and Wellness Centre – Massage – Jacuzzi – Turkish/Steam Bath – Hammam.

The fitness room takes up most of the ground floor, while the small bar and restaurant are squeezed to the rear. This UNA hotel has a sushi bar as well as an organic Sicilian restaurant.