Monza F1 Gran Prix
Monza Circuit was built in 1922, in only 110 days, both for competitions and for motor (auto & motor cycle) testing (Brooklands was built in 1907 and Indianapolis in 1909). Since then, the Italian Grand Prix has always taken place on the Monza track (except during the war years and a few other occasions). The location of the Circuit in Monza Park, is unique in the world. This natural setting is both attractive and delightful. Moreover there are sport and technical shops and a specialized bookstore with international and rare editions. The park offers also other facilities as swimming pool, camping, 18-hole golf course, horses and bicycle rental.
Bravio delle Botti Palio
At Montepulciano's Bravio delle Botti (barrel rolling contest) contenders roll empty wine barrels through the narrow streets of the wine-growing village. Eight neighborhood teams compete for the bravium, a cloth bearing the image of the town's patron saint. The race dates back to the 17th century and is also an excellent opportunity to sample some of the fine wine which comes from this beautiful area of Tuscany.
Little Green Train
One of the best ways to travel and to know the different aspects of the island landscape is trough a travel on the Trenino Verde. The train runs across a land rich in vegetation, where the railway seems to have always belonged to, just like signalman's houses, stations, viaducts and other railways engineering works. The speed of the train is the right one to allow you to appreciate aspects of the island's landscape as the train proceeds almost on tiptoes in an environment, unreachable by any other way.
Black and White Festival
In September Udine will host an unmissable event: from 2nd to 12th September the second Black&White festival will take place in the town, with a series of not-to-be missed appointments tied by one single color thread. This event expresses in the colors of Udine – black and white, precisely – different artistic and cultural forms in the most charming places of the town. The color reference, which is at the basis of the festival, will be created by a selection of the most interesting names and expressions of Italian and international art, photography, cinema, journalism, food and wine tradition.
Rebels
A series of images taken from the vast photographic archive of Sam Shaw, one of the greatest photographers to work with Hollywood stars, and who helped to increase their mystique. The photographs are taken from his coverage from the sets of two great films: One-eyed Jacks (1961), directed by Marlon Brando (who also starred in the film) and Michael Cacoyannis’s Zorba the Greek (1965), which starred Anthony Quinn. It’s hard to imagine two such different stars, two actors with such different acting techniques, stage presences, approach to their characters, appeal and connivance with the audience. These are moments stolen on set, portrayals of non-reconciled beings, intolerant of every constriction, untamed. Portraits of fighters, of battling souls. In short: rebels.
Ravello Festival
The Ravello Festival is the oldest Italian music festival, along with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The Festival was originally dedicated to the music of Wagner, but as time went by editions evolved into their current form. The common theme for 2010 is "Madness". The Festival includes over one-hundred events organized in eight Sections, each in honor of one of the great artists who have stayed and who were inspired in Ravello: Symphonic music, Chamber music, Trends, Special events, Cinemusic, Visual arts, Musical promenades and Training.
SANGIMIGNANO1300
The MUSEA Group is pleased to announce the opening of SANGIMIGNANO1300, a uniquely different gem of a museum located in the heart of San Gimignano, Italy. More of a “happening” than a museum, SANGIMIGNANO 1300 provides visitors the opportunity to truly experience and understand the historic, architectural and social aspects of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. SANGIMIGNANO 1300 features a massive ceramic reconstruction of the entire city of San Gimignano as it existed in 1300, at the height of its artistic splendour. Architects, historians and a team of artists worked nearly three years to create this spectacular and unprecedented exhibition.
S.O.S Abruzzo art: an exhibit not to forget
It’s a collection of 200 recovered items which take place at Castle Sant’Angelo National Museum. Among them paintings, sculptures, jewelry and crucifixes. Less than five months after the earthquake struck the initiative of finding and renovating artwork for this exhibit began.
The exhibit aims to keep the memory of the earthquake alive and to remember the commitment to rebuild the old town of L’Aquila.
Munch and the north spirit
For the first time in Italy, Villa Manin proposes an extraordinary artist journey through the Scandinavian countries as Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Especially dedicates to landscape, composed by 130 works of art from different north museums. It will divide in five sections, the first four reserved to national school of mention states and the closed section will dedicates to Munich. A collection composed from youth to mature period of the artist.
International Festival of Contemporary Music
Since 1930, this contemporary music festival presents concerts at various venues in the city. They focus on modern musical composition and include musical theatre, theatrical concerts, micro-opera, instrumental theatre, performance art and song.. This year the Titled is “Don Giovanni and the man of stone” the Festival refers not only to the famous opera by Mozart, but to one of the most important myths of western culture: Don Giovanni, within the conflict between human finiteness and its aspiration to eternity, between the body and the spirit.
Miro'
A journey through dream-like, wordless lyrical poetry in colour, created with the red, blue and yellow of Joan Miro’s palette, acquaints the visitor with a part of the Catalan maestro’s production that is lesser explored: his work as illustrator. Miro became involved in art prints to such a degree that for certain periods he stopped painting to dedicate himself totally to the creation of graphic works for limited-edition books and magazines. These are poetic stories in which Miro interacts with the writings of great authors of his time in a non-verbal alphabet made of line and colour, reinterpreting their words through his own personal sensitivity. The fantastic ideograms of Miro act as the ideal complement to the words of the poets with whom the maestro relates.
The Virtues of Love. Nuptial Painting
The bedroom was the fulcrum of the Renaissance home: the most intimate and protected place where the wedding was consumed, children were born, and one died. Spalliere/headboards like the so-called Cassone Adimari of the Galleria dell'Accademia, which occasions the exhibition, and the historiated panels of chests are extraordinary testimonies of the Florentine Renaissance home, high fashion, the celebration of festivities, the rituality that accompanied marriage, from engagement to the wife's entrance into her husband's house. Moreover, with the stories depicted, "nuptial painting" served the fundamental function of conveying messages of warning and encouragement to a couple to adopt a conduct considered as exemplary.
Spectacular Genova
Genoa is a town rich in contrasts, you only need a few steps to find yourself immersed in its glorious ancient past or walking on the path of new daring symbols of a town facing the future. If you get to Genoa from the sea, the impact is spectacular. The town shows its visitors all its grandeur. Lying on the coast, it stretches out, climbing the hills offering a dramatic view. Genoa offers tours for everyone: it gives you the chance to go on real excursions experiencing the wildlife, plunging back into history; “diving” in the history of the town while you walk through the labyrinth of the Historic Centre, discovering real treasures such as millenary churches and cloisters.
POMPEI VIVA
“Pompei Viva” is a claim, the 2010 program for the archaeological area, a slogan meaning: knowledge, preservation, valorization of one of the most extraordinary sites of the world. Worksites where you can watch live the archaeological discoveries, multimedia visits, a summer season of prestigious performances at the restored Great Theatre, walks by night, thematic itineraries, by bike and for children, exhibitions, an archaeo-restaurant where you can taste the finest traditional Campanian products. These are just some of the news of the Special Chief Manager of the emergency for the archaeological areas of Naples and Pompeii, Marcello Fiori and of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei program that are making the Vesuvian excavations more and more accessible and enjoyable.
Alta Badia - The Peaks of Gastronomy
Alta Badia is the stunning Ladin valley where unrivalled cuisine is on the agenda for summer 2010, as well as breathtaking scenery, clear mountain air and the unique Ladin culture. Green tourism underpins every activity with sound eco-friendly systems in place to guarantee that this precious environment survives in all its beauty for the enjoyment of future generations. Alta Badia’s summer invitation goes out to visitors of all ages and interests: from active families and folklore enthusiasts to foodies and fitness fanatics. Announcing Peaks of Gastronomy: following the success of the Taste for Skiing promotion in winter, the Peaks of Gastronomy launches a variety of memorable culinary experiences this summer.
Venetian Nineteenth Century
The National Museum of Villa Pisani in Stra (Venice) is hosting the exhibition Venetian Nineteenth Century – Contemporary Venetian promoted by the Architectural and Landscape Heritage Superintendence for the provinces of Venice, Belluno, Padua and Treviso, organized by Munus in partnership with the Region of Veneto and curate by Myriam Zerbi, responsible for the nineteenth-century section, and Costantino D’Orazio, for the Contemporary section. Housed both in the interiors of Villa Pisani and in its park, the exhibition illustrates the focal role played by Venice in training, welcoming and inspiring artists from the nineteenth century to the present day.
The Age of Conquest. The charm of Greek art in Rome
The Age of Conquest, an exhibition just opened in the Musei Capitolini, explores the question: how did Rome's conquest of Greece (146 BC) influence Roman art? The answer is of course that the influence was huge: Roman copies of canonic Greek masterpieces ensued, there were aesthetic influences in the decoration of sanctuaries and funerary monuments, while every-day domestic objects mimicked Greek styles too. The exhibition, through masterpieces coming from the Mediterranean basin, including impressive marble statues, fine works in bronze and terracotta sculptures entire cycles, ornaments and home decor items made of bronze and silver, the highest value style, describe the period that will be among the most innovative and original for the entire development of Western art.
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