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Palace Hotel and Spa is a beautiful 5 stars luxury hotel in Anacapri , the village on the island of Capri, Italy.  The hotel stands 300 meters above sea level, overlooking the open Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Naples. The hotel is stylish and exudes modern Italian charm and is located in a quieter part of the island far from the crowds of Capri.

The Capri Palace has 85 rooms, four with their own private gardens and heated swimming pool and 5 luxuriously furnished suites.

Guest rooms are opulent in gleaming white, with chandeliers, tile and marble baths and canopy beds.

Amenities: Bar, Childcare, Cleaning Service Available, Concierge, Gym, High Speed Internet, Pool, Restaurant, Room Service and Spa.

The outdoor pool is heated and the beauty farm is just the place to indulge. 

The Capri Beauty Farm’s personalized and state-of-the-art treatments are the product of ongoing medical research.

L’Olivo, La Terrazza, La Piscina: The Palace Hotel Restaurants continue the long-established family tradition for Mediterranean food, homemade bread, pasta and desserts. In addition to the poolside terrace, a number of intimate areas have been created within the restaurant featuring fire places, book cases and easy armchairs.

Pescara – a city in the Abruzzo region of Italy, situated at sea level on the Atlantic coast. The coast is low and sandy and the beach extends untouched for some distance to both the north and the south of the river. The city has Mediterranean climate typical of Atlantic Sea with dry hot summers, rainy winters and high humidity all year round. Pescara is also city of culture, art and relax.

In this article I’m very pleased and attracted by one of the fountain in Pescara’s Della Rinascita, created by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and integrated on 14 December last year, cracked by itself. The celebration of the inauguration of Plaza Della Rinascita was attended by 10, 000 people with great expectation and participation in which citizenship has been waiting for the completion led.

The day in the square is continued with all the events planned and rebirth of Plaza Lounge has closed the concert with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara with its 55 elements entertained the audience playing known opera arias.

The fountain itself comprises 20 cubic meters of transparent acrylic material dubbed in the huge wine glass, five meter high on the two meter-square base. Passers- by heard creaking noises and the water in the tremendous bowl appeared to freeze. The monument which costs more than one million euros has been cordoned off by the police.

Relais Il Falconiere Hotel Cortona is an elegant residence, built in 1600, located between Umbria and Tuscany in the beautiful countryside of Cortona. Place for complete tranquillity, where the senses are treated to sumptuous flavours and fragrances, exquisite natural and man-made beauty. Nearly all of the frescoes, architectural features and decorative works.

The farmhouse is fashioned with a book-filled sitting room and deep sofas, and its smallish, pastel-hued bedrooms contain chestnut wardrobes and wrought-iron bedsteads.

10 guestrooms and 2 suites, resplendent with beautiful antique furniture, offer exquisite comfort.

Television with Cable, Laundry/Valet Services, Babysitting/Child Services, Bar/Lounge, Safe Deposit Box, Mini Bar, Restaurant, Free Parking, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Hairdryer in Room, Room Service, Free Newspaper. 

The hotel has a wonderful wellness center and has recently restored the beautiful Baracchi estate winery just east of Cortona.

Activities: Golf, indoor and outdoor swimming pool, Spa, Whirlpool, Sauna, Fitness, Solarium, Fango, Mud bath, mountain biking, horseback.

On February each year the residents of the small town – Ivrea, Italy, take a part in a festival with the biggest fruit fight. Its historic event celebrates the rebellion of the people against a tyrant who ruled the town in the middle ages. In the battle main weapons are the oranges. Thousands come from far to take part in the annual Battle of the Oranges, and it’s safe to say that no one leaves untouched by pulp.

It’s five-star luxury hotel and has been voted one of the 400 best hotels in the world by prestigious magazine “Forbes Traveller”. Hotel “Caruso” was reopened in summer 2005 after a complete renovation. It started in 1893 as a small pension. Then the hotel’s fans included Greta Garbo, Jackie Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Wagner, D.H.Lawrence, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf. 

Hotel Caruso is situated on a cliff top 350 m above the sea, offers a breathtaking panorama over the Amalfi coast for its guests. It’s the ideal location for the perfect romantic break overlooking the Mediterranean.   

 The hotel has 54 rooms, decorated of the pastel colors and equipped with the latest amenities to relax. Most of them have terraces with views to the Mediterranean Sea.  

In 2007 was opened a hotel’s wellness and spa center offering massages and body treatments and gym. But the major pleasant is that you can swim in the heated infinity swimming pool, just is like being suspended between sea and sky…   Hotel Caruso has cocktail, piano bar, restaurant and tennis courts. Also offers a boat excursions with which you can explore Amalfi Coast and next Positano.     Room Prices: 620 Euros for a double and 3100 Euros for the Exclusive suite.

Amedei is a boutique confectionery in the Pisan village of Pontedera, Tuscany (Italy). No place in the world takes chocolate making as seriously as Amedei Factory.

Slitti Cioccolate e Caffe is in the small town of Monsummano Terme. Andrea Slitti, a student pours chocolate in his laboratory.

A display of various chocolates at Slitti Cioccolato e Caffe`. The caffe looks like a boutique shop with attractive boxes of chocolates lining the ornate shelves, and part cozy cafe, with espresso machines whirring behind the counter.

An assortment of tools made of chocolate at Slitti.

Chocolate shavings are added to a cauldron to be melted down at Catinari.

Catinari’s chocolates come in striking colors.

Alcantara Gorges and the Alcantara River are the most interesting natural monuments in Sicily, Italy, as a lot of tourists say. The gorges are accessible for a stretch when the waters are low, at a depth of between 50 and 200 cm. Long ago during the eruption of one of the small craters Mogo lava flows made the river-bed on the northern slope of the mount Etna. The magma, cooling off, formed prism basaltic high walls and the erosion of the river  transformed it in a canyon. The tourists will have an opportunity to see the river in all its beauty: its numerous shallows, water falls and vertical basalt cliffs of whimsical forms.
The river-bed stone cliffs rise over 50 meters above the narrow tongue of water awkwardly stretching their cumbersome beauty. Black geometric forms seem to confront each other ominously as they surge skywards. The beautiful stone cliffs tower forms pentagonal and hexagonal prisms, irregular shapes which interplay with the light, creating forms both graceful and monstrous.

During the period from May till September the water in the Alcantara river becomes lower. At this time it is possible to bathe there and many tourists use this opportunity to cool down in its pure stream. The most interesting place of the river is called Gole dell’Alcantara. The water is cold though, even in the summer. If you want to walk through part of the actual gorge, you can hire waders (similar to those used by fisherman).

The descent on foot allows a beautiful, overall view of the initial part of the gorge. Once down at the riverbed, the rock-faces are remarkable in their ambiguous beauty, squeezing a narrow strip of water between them: black, geometric structures which rise up, one facing the other. The entrance ticket costs 3Eur. There is a lift for the climb back up. A special elevator was built there to lift tourists to the field of view, which is open from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m. Free-camping is possible in the specially provided clearings.

You don’t have to be a famous musician or a millionaire to visit the one-only-elite playground of Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Sardinia is the second-largest Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

 A new airport terminal in Olbia has opened its doors adding European routes and airlines every year.

 

 A lovely rooftop view of Porto Cervo. Porto Cervo is an amazing marina, where megayachts float.

 

Toursits enjoying their vacation on the top-level terrace, one of Porto Cervo’s best kept secrets: a Moet & Chandon Champagne bar.

 

A show at the Monte di Mola Musco, Porto Cervo’s first art museum.

 

For good vibes and various crowd, try Phi Beach, an outdoor oceanfront club.

Twilight at Porto Cervo.

 

Pizza Perez Restaurant is a colorful dinning place in Syracuse, Italy. The restaurant is divided by a fiberglass in two: on one side is the fast-food area, where people can drink a beer while waiting for take-away orders to eat at home. On the other side is the slow-food area where you can sit to take your time eating pizzas and drinking wine.

 

The wall between them is also used to store and display ingredients as customer’s coats and bags. As well as all those graphics on the walls represent possible combination of pizza ingredients.

 

The restaurant is housed in the ground floor of a 70’s building in the business district of the city. The main premise is illuminated by circular and linear standard neon used in garages. The main windows are totally opened, allowing customers to use the terrace as an extension of the restaurantin the summer.

 

The pizzas are exhibited and arranged according to the season of the year. It offers an abstract overview of all the possibilities of choice.

 

 

Borgo Santo Pietro Villa is a spectacular place located in the Tuscan hillside, not so far away from Florence and Siena, Italy. The villa is dominated from the 13^th century and has 13 acres of enchanting gardens. A resting place for wanderers on road to Rome 800 years ago, this ancient place continues to provide asylum to its guests today.

This villa is just fantastic. Elegant designed interiors provide the perfect mood for all visitors. There’re a world class cuisine created from the organic gardens, a cellar of fine international and Italian wines, Spa treatments, impeccable service and passionate attention to details.

Each room has been designed with its own unique character with warm colors of the Tuscan landscape. All double rooms, junior suites and suites have an i-pod docking station, a hidden LCD satellite plazma television, well-researched bed furnishing to give you great comfort.

The extensive grounds at Borgo Santo Pietro include an orchard, organic fruit and vegetable gardens, tranquil lawns and beautiful pool. There’re also a tennis and basketball court for the more active.

Something very interesting about the outstanding swimming pool is that it has been designed to seamlessly blend into the beautiful landscape, ensuring a truly carefree and stunning spot to soak up the surrounding views.

If you are like those guests who need a little refreshment stroll, a five minute walk along the villa will take you to the local village of Palazzetto, a small community of extremely friendly people. Tourists can also try the local pizzeria or to experience local rivalry.

So Borgo Santo Pietro for sure offers ultimate quality with the personal touch for a truly exclusive escape in the breathtaking surroundings of Tuscany.

This splendid hotel has central location in Florence just next to the Ponte Vecchio with breathtaking view over the River Arno )))!Guests will be very delighted by the Continentale’s open areas, filled with spectral drapes and light pink, lemon and pistachio green tones, crafting a bright, almost shimmering effect.

The hotel has 43 rooms including one Penthouse suite, all of them with window seats, leather furniture and desks give you the opportunity to write, relax or think. Time plays a subtle role in the design philosophy of the Continentale hotel and its scattered collection of clocks and watches will help you remember to take a break, whichever time-zone your body is currently in.

The marvellous hotel also owns home Theater Lounge, Relax Room, Roof top lounge terrace, Fitness & Wellness center with sauna, massage room and exercise room. Dear trvellers this is yours hot spot.

Sitted on the southern coast of Sicily with beautiful sea view and approximately 120km from Catania, Italy. The house has historical position and provide to visitors modern relaxation. Near by the holiday house is located ”Club House” just on 200 m from the shore where travellers can enjoyed a rich number of services.

In addition to its ancient location and natural amenities, the Falconara Charming House offers 64 bedrooms, most of them with a wonderful sea view.

The “Club House” also features a complete spa, including massage areas, Turkish bath and gym facilities. But the real emphasis is on careful, attentive craftsmanship, whether new or old, allowing guests to feel themselves coddled by experienced hands as they take in the southern Mediterranean in all its glory.

The Falconara Charming House offers a style breakfast as well as dinner service in the restaurant. For lunch a variety of snacks and light lunches are served at the terrace and pool bar. The house is designed by Antonio Vitale – B. Castrense and Roberto e Antonella Chiaramonte Bordonaro.

Santa Teresa Resort is located throughout on the island Pantelleria. The island is the largest one of the Sicilian islands and is just 8 km away from the local airport. This warm island is very close to the African coast.

The resort has a collection of 18 bungalow buildings separated into 4 mini villages. Each one accomodate from 2 to 4 people in individually furnished style. The resort has a really Afro-European atmosphere slice of the Sicilian archipelago.

As well as each mini-village has its own swimming-pool, except for one in Monastero located in a in the crystal blue southern waters is a few minutes away by car.

Food features “Pantelleria pesto”, the freshest of fish, and couscous and Arabic sweets. Once evening comes, the resort’s Arabian garden is the ideal place to relax sipping a drink. Bed and breakfast basis, breakfast is served in the Arabian Garden in Sibà or at the beautiful terrace in Monastero.

Events, like Wine Tasting, are planned during the stay of the guests.

La Coluccia Resort is perfectly sitted just on the delightful sandy beach on the north coast of Sardinia, Italy. The neighbouring seaside resort is Porto Pozzo just on 4km away. As well as there are other resort near by, such as Santa Teresa Gallura, Palau, Porto Cervo and the Costa Smeralda.

The resort owns glamorous greenery blended with art and architecture. In 45 villas with gentle matural tones and flowing forms, La Coluccia resort is a place, where guests will rediscover the pleasure of sea, air and time in an excellent atmosphere of beauty.

Each room is equipped with hairdryer, shower, satellite TV, air-conditioning, direct dial phone, internet connection point, minibar, in-room safe.

Bar & restaurant offering local & international specialities and wines.The wide terrace overlooking the sea and the pool is available for ‘á la carte’ meals.

The hotel offer Space Comfort Zone with 2 massage rooms, Turkish bath, gym and relaxation zone, outdoor free-form swimming pool, bike, scooter and car hire, pedalos, canoes and rubber boats for rental at the beach.

The Chedi Milan Hotel is located in Milan’s residential Bovisa district. The hotel is in 5 minutes walk to the train station in Milan and 5 minutes to Fiera City. Also a distance from Malpensa airport is 35km, a distance from Linate airport is 14km and from Orio al Serio airport is 54km. It is great palce to stay for business and pleasure.

Chedi Milan Hotel is a mix of Southern Europe and East Asian stylies. There’re 250 rooms, all of them very warm and stylish. Each room owned air conditioning and individual room comfort control, LCD flat screen TV, mini bar and personal safe, high quality cotton bed linen and hypoallergenic duvets and pillows, plush velour bathrobes and slippers, telephone with voice mail facility, in-room wireless and cable Internet connection.

The hotel also offers car parking for 188 cars, daily newspapers, airport transfers, business centre, 24-hour room service, laundry and dry cleaning, 15 rooms have been specially designed for disabled guests.

The restaurant and bar lounge are on the ground floor and the atmosphere is very peaceful and private. The restaurant serves world-class Asian and Italian cusine. There’re beautiful gardens and counrtyard. Everything is very fresh and it’s much more business..!