Archive for category "Architecture"
Tiepolo Passi Villa is open every Sunday morning: it's situated in the province of Treviso, in the village of Carbonera. It's one of the many precious venetian villas filling Treviso landscape and belonging to the socalled Civiltà di Villa (Villa Culture) started by the Serenissima, the Venice Republic, while it was turning from a mere sea power into a mainland power.
The building dates back to the early XVIth century, just in the brightest period of ...
From Romagna in Italy at the Liberty Grand Hotel Rimini - May 11, 2012
The "Italian Liberty" ABCOnlus Cultural Association of Venice, edited by Andrea Apothecaries, (artist of the 54 th Venice Biennale) stems from re-evaluate in more depth what was the art movement Nouveau architecture in order '800 and '900 throughout Italy.
Friday, May 11 at 11:30 am in the fascinating setting of the Grand Hotel Rimini, ...
Since the end of the XIX century Villa Wenner was the Wenners’ home, who
founded textile industry in the Irno valley.
Don Alberto Wenner built it in 1862 on the public soil of Pellezzano in the area
that is still named “Villini Svizzeri” (Swiss Villas). In the same area more
buildings were built for people who worked in that industry. For the project of the
Swiss architecture the architect Stefano Gasse, already famous in Naples for the
facade of St. Giacomo ...
This is the third biggest square in Rome, having the surface of 17,100 sqm or 61.353 sqf.
Its name means literally Poplar’s square after the row of these trees that were close to the obelisk, parallel to a boundary wall at Pincio’s hill, at the eastern side of the square, before the final 1823 architectural arrangement done by Giuseppe Valadier and also shown on an oil painting by Caspar van Wittel whose perspective was taken from ...
The hundred year old monument built to celebrate the first king of the United Kingdom of Italy, Savoy’s King Vittorio Emanuele II, the Vittoriano represents the Unity of the Country and the Freedom of its People.
The big complex was built using a thousand tons of candid marble from Lombardy, the northern region of Italy.
Before the construction began an entire medieval area of Rome was demolished to find the space for it, and that was the ...
Since the 17th century pope Gregory XII, Angelo Correr from Venice 1406-1415, had expressed his desire to connect the two levels , about twenty metres high, separating the
current Piazza di Spagna from the Church of Trinita’ dei Monti, Trinity of the Hills, built in 1585 by pope Sixtus V, attached to the Convent of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in 1494.
The slope was left untouched and the area was left abandoned for ages ...
Heat, sun, sea. Nature is the real queen in this part of the Earth rising between two seas, which has as its centre the noble Lecce. Respecting traditions, it is an oasis of culture framed by uncontaminated sea, white beaches, indented coasts, wild nature and hills covered with olive trees.
Lecce is the heart of Salento region, a city to discover with the nose turned-up. The eyes are enchanted by the flowers in the limestone rock ...
Literally clinging to the rock of a hill sloping down to the sea, about half way between Genova and France, there is Cervo: a network of terraces, arches, stairways, rooftops and alleyways, white medieval houses (arranged in rows, two or three floors, with still visible - on the ground floor - the large arches of the arcades) and Baroque palaces, creating incomparable views, in the warm light of the Mediterranean Sea, the delight of painters ...
Francesco Bagnara (1784-1866) is remembered as a great designer who, since about 1810, created for the theater “La Fenice” in Venice more than a thousand scenarios.
His work also interested in scenic design for "English gardens" for some noble venetian families.
To Bagnara was given the task of designing the garden to Tolentini in Venice, the villa's garden Revedin Bolasco in Castelfranco Veneto, the two gardens in Mottinello Nuovo and in Galliera Veneta for Comello's family and ...
A special artwork is built every year with the ice like an igloo.
The largest hotel in the world on a site with the cold Arctic climate, the northern lights and midnight sun.
Each year, the freezed river becomes a unique place that allows to develope peculiar architecture offering an ice-sensual experience and challenges with art, nature and food.
Every season we create a menu that involves the many Swedish Lapland's flavors .
Each year, attracting visitors from all around the world ...
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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The ...
31 May, 2013 at 7:41 pm | on Museums
Genius and innovation. The new Museum creates added value for Tuscany.
The renovation of the Museo Leonardiano, one of the most important collections dedicated to the Genius from Tuscany, is ...
31 May, 2013 at 6:57 pm | on Museums
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the ...
1 January, 2013 at 8:22 pm | on Museums
Built in a historic area near temple of Gawdawpalin, on the banks of Ayeyarwaddy, a few steps away from Old Bagan Archaeological Museum.
The architect has combined influences that reflect the ancient and ...
Bottega Artigianale Lavacca is an artisanal workshop where love for wood, culture and respect for the traditions of master artisan Mario and his son Libero manifests in creations designed and made entirely ...
