June 02, 2007

Palermo La Dolce Vita

73756751_fcbc714686 Palermo is one of the most lively, frenetic cities in Sicily, and provides lots of opportunities for night-time fun in dreamlike, exotic and eastern-style settings.
One of the most popular meeting places is the market area, Borgo Vecchio that lies between Piazza Sturzo and Piazza Ucciardone. This market is the only one that stays open until late, attracting a lot of young people who meet here to organize their evenings. Other meeting places are Piazza Olivella, that is full of people and the aroma of kebabs and spices, and the lanes that spread out behind the Teatro Massimo.
Here are a few of the many clubs in Palermo that are popular due to the charming, elegant and original atmospheres. Cuba, a private club furnished in Arabic style can be found in the garden of the amazing Villa Sperlinga. Here you can sip cocktails while listening to lounge music. Cambio Cavalli is in Via Patania and is inside a seventeenth century building, where art and photography exhibitions by young artists are often held. Chill-out music at the Moro in Piazza Pottino, on the Arnella Sea Front: an extremely relaxing, intimate atmosphere, where you can sit on rugs and cushions in candlelight.

May 31, 2007

Murano

Muranosouffleurs1 Well, the name is just telling us what we can find here. Murano is Located just in the north of Venice, and is the island of   glassblowers. On this island, you will have the unique opportunity      to watch the glassblowers at work, making such diverse objects  as vases, horses, etc. Some of the fabrics will allow you to see this magnificent artists at work for free, but many of them knows that they are unique and they charge you for it. Either way it's worth it!

May 29, 2007

Riccione Moda Italia

6_8In the 10th edition of the National festival-contest "Fashion Profession Young Stylists" is the most important event held in the middle of July. Conferences and workshops centering around fashion will be the leading activities completing the platform parades. Young and talented stylists from esteemed fashion schools and houses will show their most innovative as well as creative works. The newly restored Piazza Roma is the ideal setting for this massive event which boasts a crowd of over 6000.

May 26, 2007

Rome world heritage site.

Site_91 Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C., Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major monuments of antiquity such as the Forums, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as well as the religious and public buildings of papal Rome.

May 24, 2007

Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie

Site_93 The refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie forms an integral part of this architectural complex, begun in Milan in 1463 and reworked at the end of the 15th century by Bramante. On the north wall is The Last Supper, the unrivalled masterpiece painted between 1495 and 1497 by Leonardo da Vinci, whose work was to herald a new era in the history of art.

May 22, 2007

Valcamonica

Site_94 Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic.

May 19, 2007

Latium

3_9 The spa resorts in Latium are linked to the volcanic activity which has shaped the morphology of much of the region. Bagni di Tivoli, on the outskirts of the capital and Fiuggi, further east, are especially well known. Fiuggi waters are especially noted for the treatment of renal calculus and their fame has led to the development of 250 hotels.

May 17, 2007

The major thermal spa regions

2_9 The determining factor in the presence of hot water or mineral springs is the geology of Italy, a relatively young country, which is rich in volcanic phenomena and permeated, in every sense of the word, by a dense network of groundwater channels. In north-eastern Italy many spas have developed on the slopes of the Euganei Hills in Veneto, volcanic highlands where numerous hot water springs gush out. The main form of treatment is mud therapy, recommended for rheumatic illnesses and problems of the respiratory organs and the female genital organs. Abano Terme alone has almost two million visitors a year, half of whom come from abroad.

May 15, 2007

Thermal waters in Italy

1_9 In this field Italy has taken up and developed a practice which has been widespread through-out the peninsula since the time of the Romans, when thermal waters and baths were already a typical feature of town life. Interest in the Italian spas is not exclusively for health care reasons. Their proximity to great centers of art makes the spa resorts excellent bases for cultural excursions. In addition the splendid parks surrounding the most famous spas, and the infrastructure which has been created for leisure activities, make them ideal holiday resorts in their own right. Italian thermal spas are not only those which exploit hot water resources (as the literal meaning of the word "thermal" might suggest) since mineral water springs are now also generally included in this category.

May 12, 2007

Gas Station Museum

Fisogni The Fisogni Museum was founded by Guido Fisogni in 1966. During the following years the Museum became more and more important. Today the Museum is composed by more than 7500 pieces divided among gasoline pumps (150), oil tanks (2.000), equipment like oil replacement, grease-cup, fire extinguisher, air compressor, etc. (2.500) and an incredible number of accessories, gadgets and toys, having the logos of the automotive companies from the beginning of the century. The Museum provides also a very rich archive of technical design or advertising materials continually consulted by students and designers.

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    Name : Luigi Marchese
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    Born in: Washington D.C
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