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Christmas at Granada, Spain

freelancer — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:51:27 +0000

Granada experiments a methamorphosis when Christmas is coming. We can fairly consider Granada as one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, but when it comes about Christmas, when Sierra Nevada is completely covered in snow, people knows how to protect themselves against the cold and iluminate the city in a marvellous way.

It’s a pleasure walk through the old streets of Granada at winter. You can see the Christmas decoration everywhere, at the roofs, streetlights, shopping centers and also the main monuments like La Alhambra are nicely decorated. Rather than spend your Christmas holiday in a big city like Barcelona or London, trying a small city like Granada as your destination, one plenty of history, art and charming spirit will be an experience you cannot regret.

Apart from the obvious differences between Granada and big cities like the ones mentioned before, there is an extra advantage, the accomodation cost. If you want to look for Hoteles en Granada Centro you will find affordable prizes and lovely hotels.

Browsing I also have found a video which ilustrates what I’m trying to say, and like we all know, an image worth more than one thousand words. And in this video, there are lots of images. Hope you all enjoy it. The music is a typical Christmas spanish song.

Christmas at Granada

Fiumicino airport first for growth in Europe

freelancer — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:59:33 +0000

In the day when the Censis certifies, with a detailed study, the absolute necessity of adapting to new market needs Hotel Aeroporto Fiumicino, because the limits of saturation. And where the mayor Alemanno urged the government to enter the airport development plan on the political agenda, also comes the slap to Moody’s Adr. But more than a critique, the rating agency’s warning seems an assist. It was not enough because the pressing of the first citizen and the President of the Region to boost Polverini Two Fiumicino. Now analysts are putting the government in default. A push, paradoxically, in the same direction in which time moves from Rome airports. “The reduction of the debt rating of Ba1 to Adr – explain – is motivated by the increased risk of the financial profile of Adr because of continuing delays in the finalization of the new regulatory framework and consequent price increases.” How to say that the situation is now unlocked. And that Sparrow and Monti must give a signal. In 2030 97 million passengers expected. Moreover Censis has spoken out. Why Leonardo da Vinci in 2030 could reach 97 million passengers, traffic that will generate 244 000 jobs in more than a value of 16.3 billion euros. Waste any time, without deciding, it would be foolish. Fiumicino is also because for the first growth in Europe (+13.6%) and not exploit the potential would be a grave mistake. For the country first. U. Man

From Mozart to Puccini: opera gala at the theater Guardassoni

freelancer — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:40:30 +0000

From Mozart to Puccini: opera gala at the theater Guardassoni
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The historic theater room Bologna, Guardassoni, opens its season on Dec. 6 with a special gala opera. S ul stage three exceptional players and a promising young emerging: the soprano Cinzia Forte, baritone Mario Cassi and tenor Christian Cremonini with mezzo Stephanie Lewis, English by birth and adoption of Bologna now with Hotel Bologna Centro

The program provides a veritable feast of bel canto arias and duets from the best-loved works by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, with a frothy operetta bet on the world – classic holiday par excellence – and other surprises. For the opportunity will be offered a toast to the public by the company with a buffet wine Gardi-Bertoni (www.tenutanasano.it)

The gala, in collaboration with Lions club Bologna and Bologna Lavino Samoggia valleys, will be aimed at raising funds to support the artistic and cultural activities of the theater Guardassoni (Association for social non-profit), in particular for the purchase of a piano that will enhance the concert and the development of young artists emerged in the competition City of Bologna – fitting with the Caniglia of Sulmona and Colzani Budrio the circuit of competitions sponsored by Benvenuto Franci of Pienza. It is from this important collaboration network, which has seen emerging talents Guardassoni also perform in other member cities, comes the young Lewis , former student of the School of the Theatre of Opera and fresh winner of the last contest of Pienza Franci last in October.

Cinzia Forte, internationally renowned soprano and artistic director of music initiatives by Guardassoni, is back after its debut as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro after being many times will soon be a popular Susanna and Anne Boleyn in Trieste, Naples Lucia di Lammermoor, Violetta Valery in La Traviata , and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in Bologna.

Mario Cassi is a very busy period, which saw him star of Two Figaro Mercadante under the direction of Riccardo Muti in Ravenna and Salzburg, the Barber of Seville at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Gem of Vergy in Bergamo, The Marriage of Figaro in Liège and The Cinderella in Valencia. Next season will be at Real Madrid again with Maestro Muti, in Palermo and then for the ‘ Elixir of Love and Stairway to Rigoletto and La Boheme . It’s already been a guest of Guardassoni, where he debuted in the role of Giorgio Germont in La Traviata staged in 2009.

Cristiano Cremonini , President of Theatre Guardassoni, was recently applauded at La Scala in Milan (where he returns in 2012), the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Verdi Festival in Parma, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, the Baths of Caracalla in Liège and Brussels.

At the piano Ayako Kotani . Will present the evening, Professor. Mioli Piero .

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Bologna Motor Show, we go. Open Ferrari Fisichella

freelancer — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:39:40 +0000

Start the Bologna Motor Show, the show starts. The first day of the festival motoring more waiting in Italy will give visitors many events and exhibitions which are taking place from 9.30 till 17.45. To open the 36th edition of the Motor Show will be the stuntman in “Police Academy”, coming directly from the amusement park Wonderland. The performance of the men in uniform, after the great success of previous editions, will give new spectacular stunts with cars, motorcycles and trucks to the Mobil 1 Arena for every day of the event. At 10.00 will follow the usual ribbon-cutting ceremony, and then come alive with the emotion of the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli will be divided in the morning, where you will perform the practice, and in the afternoon, which will be awarded trophies. You will see the F430 on the track, which for years have been glorious stars of the Maranello brand championship, ready to retire next year. Since 2012, in fact, steal the scene of the new 458 that will compete on the track before the public today at the Motor Show. The audience at the Mobil 1 Arena can contemplate the evolution of Freestyle Motocross. Bikers will be featured on the track with their bikes showing jumps and many other precision numbers and balance before leaving the place to one of the most anticipated events. In this first opening weekend of the Motor Show, the Ferrari pit stop will give a simulation of Formula One, complete with a “shout” of the powerful 8-cylinder engine in Maranello. This special salute to the 2011 season will be given to Giancarlo Fisichella for the occasion, will be behind the wheel of the F10 used last season by Alonso and Massa. The final event will be given to the masters of drifting that Mobil 1 always in the versatile Arena, will compete in precisely Drift Battle. All to close a day counts as a discharge of adrenaline to launch the most of this 36th edition of the Bologna Motor Show.

Thyssen Turin Safety Week 2011

freelancer — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:39:10 +0000

TURIN – begins today in Turin and will run until December 5th to the “Safety Week 2011″ , the second edition of an event commemorating the memory of the tragedy of ThyssenKrupp . To commemorate that tragic December 6, 2007 . Days of commemoration and memory that involve institutions, trade unions, INAIL ANMIL, the workers, youth, children, sports, conceived by the magazine industry in Turin, near Hotel Torino Centro “Security and Labour.”

The entire event will be held inside the stadium Cit Turin LDE . After the morning press conference on December 2, in which the events will be presented and listened to the messages of the authority, Piedmont Region, Turin province, prefecture, the week will start at 18:00 with the opening of the “Village of the gnomes workers”, hosted in garden and on the steps of the sports facility, designed by children from school football to represent the various professions and to address the issue of safety in the workplace . Opening of photo exhibition of job security, workers’ rights, occupational accidents and diseases, carried out by Security and Labour and Cit Turin. “

Following in the days following moments of celebration, conventions and sports gatherings of the “Village of the gnomes sports” targeted to the involvement of young people on issues of workplace safety, labor and women precaraio and remembrance of the tragedy of Thyssen. Sunday, December 4 at 9:00 am in the monumental cemetery of Turin memorial .
Monday, December 5th in the conference program, free entry “What is the security in the crisis? The health and safety in the workplace on the fourth anniversary of the tragedy ThyssenKrupp ” ; still presenting the exhibition “Italy who died at work” carried out by Labor Safety and Piedmont Region, in collaboration with Inail Piedmont, National Museum of Cinema, Cinemambiente .

In Verona, opened an experimental new Center for Robotic Surgery

freelancer — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:38:09 +0000

The mayor of Verona, Flavio Tosi and ‘spoke this morning at the surgery center”Peter”Confortini village of Trent, the presentation of the new Center for Experimental Surgery Robotics near Hotel Verona Centro. The establishment of the center, located in the former mansion of Cardiac Surgery, attended the Institute of Neurosurgery of the Hospital University of Verona, the NEARlab the Department of Bioengineering of the Polytechnic of Milan and the Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological Morphological and Movement of Universita ‘degli Studi di Verona.
The event was first included in the”European”Robotics Week, an initiative from 28 November to 4 December to promote the growing importance of robotics and the weight of Europe through more than 350 events organized by 128 organizations and companies’ in 19 European countries.
”This new center – said Tosi – is further confirmation of the fact that the citizens’ money was spent appropriately. This pole indeed, – said the mayor – with its 30 operating rooms, represents excellence at European level, with potential ‘exceptional going more and more’ developed through the investment and the provision of modern and sophisticated technologies. Verona and ‘able so’ to offer the best answers to the citizens of Verona but also to patients from out of town ‘, creating economies of scale, useful to our health.’ The new center also – concluded Tosi – Implements the field of neurosurgery, has always been the pride of our city”’.
The main objectives of the center are: conducting studies and research in scientific advancement and technological innovation, training of students, graduates and PhD qualified, the retention of a high cultural level of its workers and the facilitation of update their professional contacts and collaborations with the University ‘and the Polytechnic.
The peculiarity ‘of the center of Verona, which distinguishes it from other similar centers in Europe, and’ its location within the structure of clinical hospital that allows him to have a high level of operating room and research staff working usually in clinical practice.

The TEDx of Florence

freelancer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:20:52 +0000

The TED Conference (Entertainment Technology Design) have been born in the United States with the objective of giving prominence to the “ideas that deserve of being diffuse” and – from some time they are landed also in Italy. Only little weeks it has been a TEDx to Reggio Emilia (a TEDx is an event managed in independent and completely independent way from the parent company but to it connected or for structure that for “poetica”) and 12 November we will assist to a new edition of the TED conference estern in those of Florence, in Bed and Breakfast a Firenze.

If the event of Reggio Emilia has been contraddistinto from participations that they wanted to answer to the question “We are a country with a great future to the shoulders” that one of Florence asks the speakers that they will crowd from the Hall of the 1500′s of Old Palace from the 14:30 to the 19:30 of next 12 November to concentrate itself on two essential topics: innovation and optimism.

As in the classic style of the TED Conference the speakers invited to speak they are personages of I not only enunciate of the technological universe, but of the world of the art and the culture; draft of intellectuals who have something to say on what mean innovation and on as can themselves be continued to cultivate optimism.

The structure of the event is always the same one: the speakers they will have 18 minuteren to head in order to expose to own thought, the minutaggio has been established or based on desire to offer a time that concurred the presentation of a completed reasoning, or based on the necessity to always hold the threshold of attention of the public to highest levels.

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4 November: events and concerts, thus Rome celebrates festivity Armed Forces

freelancer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:10:31 +0000

In the 150° of the Unita’ d’ Italy, the Festivity of the Armed Forces assumes this year assumes a deep meaning piu’. They are numerous, in Bed and Breakfast a Roma, the attivita’ that they will take the way on the territory after the ceremony of State that terra’ tomorrow near the Altar of the Native land, to the presence of the President of the Republic, Gorgio Napolitano, and the deposition of the crown of bay on tomba of the Unknown Milite in memory of the fallen of the all the international Wars and missions, which fara’ followed the passage of National the Crobatic Patrol.

They are in program exposures, barracks and areas of training opened the public, official ceremonies and concerts in the main public squares of Happen them. Sara’ tomorrow possible to visit in the Lazio 28 military structures between barracks, airports and ships. Al the Maximum Circus, after the ceremony of Alza Flag that svolgera’ to the 9,45, the exposure of crews and means of Army, marine, Aeronautical, police officers and Financial police, verra’ inaugurated to the 10, from the Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, from the president of the Region Lazio, Renata Polverini, from the president of the Province of Rome, Nicholas zingaretti, and the Military Commander of Happens them.

In the course of the day potra’ to assist to two exhibitions of the Fanfara of B. Bersaglieres “Garibaldi”. To Public square of Popolo, instead, with beginning to the 20,50 potra’ to assist itself to the exhibition of the Fanfara of the Police officers. Alle 21 is previewed the exhibition of Ennio Morricone and its orchestra

The Treasures of Raffaello to Barberini Palace

freelancer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:08:49 +0000

One of forehead to the other, is observed for the first time, and seems to trapassarsi with their acute look, all playing on penetrating vitality of the dark eyes. On one side the “Portrait of young person”, from the other the “Fornarina”, the two capolavori of Raffaello, legacies from a psychological affinity, than are revealed in an unknown one duetto. “Raffaello meets Raffaello” is the espositivo event that goes in scene from today to 29 January to the national Gallery of ancient art of Barberini Palace, thanks to the exceptional loan arrived from the Museum Thyssen Bornemisza di Madrid, within an exchange between the two illustrious cultural institutions. “Portrait of young person” of Raffaello, in fact, disembarks to Rome to the place of the “Christ and Adultera” of the Tintoretto flown to the Spanish museum for the extension “Arquitecturas Pintadas”.

And for the occasion the special Soprintendenza to the roman museale pole makes festivity. In homage to a “encounter” a lot over a long time span dreammed from the critic and the students, Barberini Palace will be opened today free of charge, offering an entire day of visits guided with historians of the art to the discovery of the secrets of the two Raffaello, thanks to the support of Gioco of the Lottery.

A special Sunday – the supervising Rossella Vodret says – and if it will be happening we count to more often reply it. The objective is to deepen the acquaintance of this extraordinary collection “. A riscoperto patrimony thanks to the restorations. Only to past june the ten were inaugurated know them of according to plan with two hundred paintings, escapes for the first time from the warehouses, datable between the end of the 1600′s and the 1700′s. Distance that joined the refined ones knows them of the flat opened earth and the noble plan in 2010 after the escape of official scene of the Circle, saving tests of estro architectonic between Bernini and Borromini, till the apotheosis of the hall of the “Divine providence” of Peter from Cortona.

In all, today, they can be visited thirty-four beginning from knows them with capolavori XI the century, than of it they make a museum comparable nearly to the Prado di Madrid.
To see the “Portrait of young person” beside the “Fornarina” is an only suggestion. “Both go back to the last activity of Raffaello – tell the director Anna the White man – and their fascination derives from the thin line of mystery on the subject portrait. For the “Fornarina”, we are of forehead to the child loved from the artist. In the Spanish table, to the young person rampollo of a great family”. The chronology of the picture oscillates between 1518 and 1519: they have been formulated several hypotheses, and that verosimile one would attribute the portrait to Pier Luigi Farnese (15031547), because the details of the work coincide with the seicentesco inventory of the Conte Giulio Cesar Gonzaga di Novellara.

“The intensity of expression of the portrait Thyssen induces however to imagine a frequentation to us between the young model and the author – the White man reflects – than of it picks in full load the essence of the appearance and the character. Enough only that slightly sfrontato look of who has all the life davanti”. And the stay could give been strange: “For the “Portrait of young person” it is believed to a collaborator – Vodret announces – I I see a hand single. For this I would want to ask diagnostic Thyssen for being able to carry out surveying and to make light on the capolavoro”.

Christmas, discounted hotels in the program

freelancer — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:44:36 +0000

Caserta – Royal Palace The vanvitellina, cross and delight of the Caserta area, these days, once again the center of controversy, should be the real attraction of Christmas 2011. Conditional mandatory, as is usual for events held in Caserta, generally characterized by uncertain and approximate timelines that turn into ineffective programs in Hotel Napoli Centro. For three weeks, the movie which tells the story of the Palace, 257 meters projected on the facade of the building, could be one of the highlights of the larger project developed by the working group, headed by the Chamber of Commerce and including Confindustria also, City, State and associations. Provided that the project is not any different to put in perhaps the same projection. “Still there are technical difficulties to overcome,” warns Mario D’Anna, president of Ascom, the organizing group and that does not lose even this opportunity to remember the idea, never implemented, to report to the Royal Palace with signs on the highway network to hoc

Meanwhile, the program of Christmas has been defined and includes, as usual, the big tree (whose power is scheduled for November 12) in Piazza Dante, the lights, the ice rink, shows and performances by artists of road. Initiatives to Christmas will also alongside those produced by synthesis, the company of the Chamber of Commerce, on the basis of the tourism masterplan commissioned and developed the company Fourtourism of Turin. In addition to the identification of the “brand Caserta,” which will be used to “sign” all efforts made in Caserta, organized by the Chamber of Commerce, but also by the City and County, you will put in place an extensive promotion of the product at the main Caserta Italian railway stations (Florence, Rome, Naples, Bari and Pescara, to begin with) where you will set up stands in mid-November and throughout the Christmas period. “Those who choose Caserta on the weekend of November 12 and onwards, you’ll enjoy staying in Caserta hotels at discounted rates. The offer is completed with the guarantee of services and quality products, free for children under 12 and free tickets for entry to the Royal Palace of Caserta, “says the president of Synthesis, Pasquale Russo.

Meanwhile, the controversy of recent days, also spoke Nicholas Caputo , Regional Councillor and chairman of the Transparency PD, suggesting: “We try to manage our cultural heritage as is done abroad: public funds but also a membership program that allows administer sites with logical business can create value. The Royal Palace of Caserta – Caputo says – has been abandoned, the site of Carditello real danger of being lost forever. ” As they continue to waste funds underperforming initiatives, such as the EPT of Caserta, “that these days will be in London and New York to make known to the international markets attractions Caserta, who, then, tourists may find it closed.”

So Campbell announces plans to “launch other initiatives in the Regional Council, by yet another beginning question (the fourth) to try to prevent that the only resources are deleted from the neglect of Campania, degradation and mismanagement.”