1839 - Cultural unification starts at the Royal Victoria
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The first evidence of the existence of unified Italian culture came in 1839 in Pisa, with the 1st Congress of Italian Scientists, when the representatives stayed at the Hotel Royal Victoria.
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1831 - The Ussero gazettes
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Together with other patriots, teachers and students in Pisa started meeting in 1831 at the Caffè dell’Ussero to read and discuss the gazettes about the Carbonari uprisings in Romagna, in the Papal States and in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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1831 - Assault on Piazza Colonna barracks launched from Caffè Greco
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In Rome, during the 1831 uprising, a sizeable group of Roman artists, members of the Académie de France, and doctors from the Ospedale di Santo Spirito, tired of the injustice, denunciations, arrests and convictions, met at Caffè Greco before going to attack the Grenadier barracks in Piazza Colonn...
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1821 - Poison for Charles Albert at Fiorio
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On 18 March 1821, conspirators at the Caffè Fiorio in Turin, the meeting place of the most diehard conservatives, attempted to convince a servant of the court pharmacist to poison the medicine taken by Charles Albert of Savoy, who had just been nominated Regent and had promulgated the Constitution.
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Cannelloni alla Favorita
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It is said that Antonino Ercolano was already serving them in 1800. He had invented the little La Favorita trattoria in order to turn to account the culinary arts he had learnt as a seminarian at the archbishopric. He had not managed to become a priest, but for his friends and for all Sorrento he ha...
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Trattoria Del Pippo da Ugo
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Run by the Raffetto-Corsiglia family for five generations, this is one of the last trattorie immediately inland in Liguria to have maintained its traditional cuisine. The little room of 1930 in the small building lower down has preserved the bar built by Pippo, with its original tables, chairs and m...
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Hotel Al Sole - Palazzo Marcello
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In the 1930s the splendid sixteenth-century former home of the Marcello family of doges became a hotel reserved for the diplomatic corps in the Serenissima, with rooms on the first floor, while the ground floor had a wine store and tavern. It opened to the public after the Second World War but maint...
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Grand Hotel Cavour
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The sixteenth-century palazzo of the Baldovini was turned into a hotel when Florence became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Just near Palazzo Vecchio, the parliament building, it became the hotel for MPs and opened its doors to the Prime Minister Bettino Ricasoli and General Cialdini. Close to ...
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Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci
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Heir to the glorious “Pensione” of the same name, on the fourth floor of the aristocratic Minerbetti and Strozzi del Poeta edifices, it has lost none of its beguiling atmosphere, with its 1930s-style breakfast room and bar, its halls with precious eighteenth-century furnishings and tapestries, a...
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Babington's Tea Rooms
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The most quintessentially English tearoom in Italy, it was opened in Via Due Macelli by Anne Mary Babington and Isabel Cargill for the English-speaking community in Rome, and in 1896 it moved to Piazza di Spagna, right next to the steps leading up to Trinità dei Monti. The Savoys came here, as did ...
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Sissi
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The ethereal, stunningly beautiful wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, Sissi was extraordinarily astute. Despite her apparent fragility, she enjoyed perfect health and travelled the length and breadth of Europe, always adored and revered by her subjects. This is how she is described by Karl Platino Junior...
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The K. u. K. Museum
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Forty thousand items. Rare, unusual, antique. Period implements used by peasants and craftsmen in Val Venosta. Long-forgotten workplaces, furnishings, and collections of Tyrolese memories. But also furnishings and objects that once belonged to Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Sissi. This is the ext...
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Pastry-shop Svizzera Vital Gaspero
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A masterpiece of restrained elegance, with all-white furnishings decorated with the Swiss cross and three little shop windows with the original signs. It is one of the last remaining Swiss patisseries which, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, took Genoa “la Superba” by storm with the fra...
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Restaurant La Botte
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Near Monreale, a place beloved of the Palermo aristocracy, it originally sold wines from the estate of a family of nobles, before becoming a trattoria. In 1962, the Cascino family, one of the most ancient of Sicilian master-chefs, now in its second generation, turned it into a restaurant. The arcade...
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Restaurant Antico Caffè Dante Ristoratore
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The first licence was taken out by Giovanni Squazzoni in 1837. In 1860 it became the Caffè Capobianco and then, in 1865, the Dante, when Verona erected a monument to the poet to assert its Italian identity, against that of Austria. A cultural, civic, and patriotic institution, it was known as the ...
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Fondo Ambiente Italiano
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FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano, a national not-for-profit association set up in 1975 with a mission to safeguard the artistic and natural heritage of Italy.
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Ancient Inn Crotto del Sergente
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The last crotto in Como, it bears witness to the time-honoured tradition in which natural cavities in the mountains were used to preserve food and wine. In the eighteenth century it was also a home and, as the licence shows, in 1880 the Cantaluppi family turned it into an inn with its own boules cou...
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Restaurant Ancient Trattoria Al Gallo
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A gem of the Art Nouveau Liberty style, with a D’Annunzio aura about the building, rooms, stained-glass windows, statues, paintings and objects. In 1909 it was Grandpa Giuseppe, who trained in Rome at Prince Torlonia’s and became director of the Reale Albergo San Marco in Ravenna, who purchased ...
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