The most “original furnishings”
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The first three floors of the Grande Albergo Ausonia & Hungaria on the Venice Lido are adorned with original Liberty-style furniture of 1905, created by master cabinetmaker Eugene Quarti of Milan, who exhibited some items at the Paris Salon of 1907. In every room a bed with headboard, bedside ta...
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Antico Caffè della Pace
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Three exquisite little rooms just by Piazza Navona, with a bar, small tables, banquettes, chairs, statues, pier mirrors and ornaments in a magical mix of Baroque, Empire and Art Nouveau. And tables in the open with a magnificent view of Santa Maria della Pace. Rino Barillari, the paparazzo, recalls ...
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Cafè restaurant bar Excelsior
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A symbol of the dolce vita in the little port adored by international celebrities. With its parasols looking out over the famous square, it is as basic as ever, with Jerusalem-stone floors and cross-vaulted ceilings. Baron de Thierry, a regular with the Colonna, Borghese and Torlonia families, broug...
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Restaurant Al Colombo
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In the early eighteenth century it was the inn “with the sign of the turtledoves”, as Elio Zorzi says in his Osterie veneziane, and the Teatro Vendramin – now Goldoni – has always made it a favourite haunt of actors. Stravinsky, Ezra Pound, the Russian poet Brodsky, and Mastroianni all dined...
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Bar café pastry-shop Grigolon
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A little gem in the Liberty style with antique equipment and containers, most of the furnishings are original, in carved tropical walnut. Even the sign, now restored, is original. A centre of city life, it was the first unofficial headquarters of the Mondovì section of the Club Alpino Italiano and ...
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Restaurant Il Palma
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Once also a hotel and a pioneer of tourism in western Liguria, its cuisine has been a symbol and a favourite of all the great personalities who have stopped off in Alassio: the celebrated Titanic survivor Portalupi used to stay here from the 1960s to the 80s. It was much loved by Primo Levi and by h...
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Grand Hotel Ausonia & Hungaria
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A symbol of the Lido and of its splendours, with a façade entirely decorated in Art-Nouveau Liberty majolica and elegant halls with parquet floors, frescoes and original furniture, it has three floors all with early twentieth-century furnishings in pristine condition. Initially patronised by the hi...
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Grand Hotel Royal
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Between the wars, Francesco Saverio Nitti, prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, often used to come down with his family and soon became a good friend of the owners. This was a hotel for the aristocracy, who flocked from all over Europe to enjoy grand gala evenings on the terrace high above the se...
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Hotel Minerva
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During their stay at Villa Il Sorito in Sorrento from 1924 to ’32, the writer Maxim Gorky and his friend Vladislav Khodasevich, the greatest Russian poet of the early twentieth century, used to cross the street to the then Pensione Minerva to have a shower each Saturday. It was a favourite of othe...
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Restaurant Al Vedel
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Early nineteenth-century Napoleonic maps of the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla showed it as a “pizzicagnolo”, meaning that it made and sold salumi, but in the first census of unified Italy in 1864, it had become an inn. Having also been a grocer’s, a café, a post office and a public t...
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1862 - Bruxaboschi haunt of Risorgimento heroes
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The villagers of San Desiderio, now part of Genoa, were roused by the ideas that the Ruffini brothers and Mazzini formulated in the area between 1830 and 1833, and played a heroic part in the Risorgimento campaigns. They were certainly very much at home in the Trattoria detta del Bruxaboschi.
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1867 - Above the Lavena, Garibaldi calls for Rome as capital
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A bronze plaque recalls that, acclaimed by the crowd in St Mark’s Square, on 26 February 1867, Garibaldi stood on the first floor of the Procuratie Vecchie above the Caffè Lavena and, greeting Venice, free at last, expressed his wish that Rome would become the capital of Italy.
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1865 - Portraits of patriots at Caffè Dante
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Medallions with the great personalities of the Risorgimento can still be seen in the rooms of the Caffè Dante in Verona, a bastion of all things Italian in the fight against Austria.
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1865 – The Cavour, MP hotel in Florence
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In 1865, when it became the hotel for MPs in Florence, which was then the capital of Italy, the Hotel Cavour very diplomatically took the name of Italy’s first prime minister, Camillo Benso, Count Cavour.
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1860 - Stratta sweets delight Cavour
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2547 lire and 60 cents for 29 kg of marrons glacés, 18 of sorbet, 37 of candied fruit, pastries, preserves, and meringues: this was the memorable invoice from Stratta paid by Count Cavour in 1860 for a reception at the Foreign Ministry.
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1860 - Annexation plebiscite at Stoppani
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After conquering the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the plebiscite called for by Garibaldi, which led to the annexation of the city to the unified state on 21 October 1860, was drafted at the Caffè Stoppani, a centre of cultural and political life in Bari.
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1860 - The three Thousand establishments
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Three establishments have ties with General Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Thousand, who landed in western Sicily and went on to conquer the entire Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1860, launching the final stage of the unification of Italy. One was the Caffè del Tasso in Bergamo Alta, a recruitment site...
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1860 - Thousand organiser at the San Carlo
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The Garibaldian freemason and politician Francesco Crispi, who organised the expedition of the Thousand and convinced Garibaldi to lead it, loved to drop in at the Caffè San Carlo in Turin, even during his two terms as the prime minister of Italy.
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