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12th International Architecture Exhibition – The Biennale in Venice

guglie — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:07:25 +0000

This year the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice shall be held from August 29 till November 21, 2010 and shall have as new director the Japan architect Kazuyo Sejima. The aim of the exhibition, together with the Biennale, is to celebrate the art of building spaces and both shows no longer want to be the art of the representation and celebration and want, with optimism, to break with the past. What most strikes about this Biennale is the almost total absence of real architectural projects and examples of urban transformation whereas more weight has been given to the concepts of idea and research projected. Whereas the previous Exhibition in 2008 was characterized by a sort of pessimism, due to the smaller confidence deserved by the buildings in front of enormous and impersonal spaces, this one of 2010 is optimistic as it proposes a series of visions and real transformations of the spaces. In order to bring the Biennale back to the first place in the world, the organizers have tried to bring the world into the spaces of the Arsenale and the Giardini. The visitor must enter imagining the future of architecture on the Earth. You will see, then, suddenly, along the way, a cloud appear in a room: a sensory experience proposed by Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects, a small change within the space occupied by the cloud produces a transformation into the cloud itself and the environment. Immediately after you enter a dark space in which, at times, the water games and strobe lights by Olafur Eliasson explode: a stunning and hypnotic experience. Our Reception shall be more than pleased to let you have any additional information about all these events and invite you to visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

July 2010: Charles Aznavour, Pat Metheny and Norah Jones in concert in St.Mark’s Square

guglie — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:56:04 +0000

This summer Charles Aznavour, Pat Metheny and Norah Jones shall be in concert in St.Mark’s Square in Venice. Pierre Cardin’s show “Casanova” and Roberto Bolle will be in the city as well. The festival will start on July 12, 2010 with the world premiere of Pierre Cardin’s Production: a new musical named “Casanova, loves and deceits in Venice”, whose setting up and stage designs are by Renato Balistreri whereas the costumes are designed by the Italian French Stylist. On Friday July 16 will be the day of Charles Aznavour, who has recently published his new album registered with the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Called “Aznavoice“ with an obvious reference to Frank Sinatra, he can boast of a long carrier as a singer, song-writer and film actor. The Venice Jazz Festival shall host this year Pat Metheny, Norah Jones, Paco De Lucia and Esperanza Spalding. Pat Metheny Group will perform on the stage of St. Mark’s Square on Friday July 23 with “The Songbook Tour”. On July 24 will be the time of Norah Jones and her new album “The Fall”. For this much-winner of Grammy Awards this album represents a new sound experimentation with many other artists and with her historical artistic partner Jesse Harris too. Norah Jones will not perform with her usual piano but with her guitar, which is her favourite instrument when registering too. Other summer concerts which must not be missed will be at La Fenice Theatre, as part of the Show organized by Veneto Jazz. Esperanza Spalding, namely a double bass player, singer and composer, new firmament star of the international jazz, will play on Tuesday 27th July at the Venetian theatre. Paco De Lucia virtuous genius of the flamenco guitar will perform at La Fenice Theatre on Thursday July 29 during the third edition of Venice Jazz Festival. The artist will present you his new masterpiece “Cositas Buenas”, an album containing Spanish and Mexican music, with which he will revolutionize history once again. The date of the dancing Roberto Bolle’s show on St. Mark’s Square has not been fixed yet. Our Reception shall be more than pleased to let you have any additional information about all these events and invite you to visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

Happyspritz@Guggenheim, Nightlife in Art with MTV in Venice

guglie — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:52:59 +0000

The ritual of taking an aperitif in the Palace Venier dei Leoni, one of the most beautiful palace on the Gran Canal, sipping it in harmony with the rhythm of joyful djs and meantime admiring some wonderful works of Contemporary Art: this is Happyspritz@Guggenheim, a successful idea of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Aperol. Every Monday of May 2010, from 19:00 to 21:30 in the magic frame of the Palace Venier, the nightlife event for those who want to share a stimulating cultural moment in a funny and unique way. With only 7 Euros you can drink 2 spritz and visit the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, and in particular the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden and the exhibition “Utopia Matters. Dalle confraternite al Bauhaus”. The unique partner of this event shall be the famous music network MTV with 5 great djs, one for every single appointment: Dj Stoner, the big Frankie Hi Nrg Mc and Migule Selekta, Dj Nanou, the rapper Dargen D’Amico and finally, Electrosacher dj’s Collective. This year there shall be a lot of musical events out of Venice as well, related to the Happyspritz@Guggenheim, in Padua and in Bologna. Our Reception shall be more than pleased to let you have any additional information about the event and invite you to visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

Capturing Emotions, the 5th International Dance Festival of Venice

guglie — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:27:50 +0000

Capturing Emotions is the name of the 2010 International Dance Festival of Venice, from next 26th May to 12th June 2010. The name of the festival wants to underline the deepest meaning of the dance, described as a workshop of human emotions and shared visions. This year Venice will presents the works of the most innovative national and international choreographers with a special attention to Canada and Quebec, New Zealand and Australia. The program is very big as it counts 36 performances, 5 world premières, 7 European premières and 8 new performances directly from Italy. 20 choreographers, 16 companies, a new off section dedicated to unknown performances, in addition to all the others workshops and meetings with the artists. The Festival shall start at the Teatro alle Tese with Oxigen, namely the new choreography by Ismael Ivo, that will engage the young dancers of the Arsenale della Danza. Soon afterwards it will be the turn of Le Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal with Le Sacre Printemps, which has been revised by Stijn Celis, and two jewels by Jirì Kyliàn: Bella Figura and Six Dances. On 3rd June the Monumental by Ros Warby shall be on the stage and afterwards it shall be followed by 3 European premières of the Sydney Dance Company and Roadkill of Splintergroup. Lemi Ponifasio, from the New Zealand, will bring “Tempest without a body” on 5th and 6th June. The Golden Lion for the career will be given to the American choreographer William Forsythe, a leading figure in dance since the Nineties. Our Reception shall be more than pleased to let you have any additional information about the Dance Festival and invite you to visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

Superior quality Books and Events in Venice

guglie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:59:10 +0000

In Venice, San Marco 3717, you may find the editorial company Lineadacqua that, with more than 20.000 books sold every year, is an an innovative company whose philosophy is founded on the idea of a combination of diverse elements: quality and innovation, culture and passion, friendship and fine wine. Lineadacqua’s products include books and events of superior quality, both in content and in form. Some examples are “Venice Food and Wine” of M. E. Chojnacka, an unique trip in the the preparation and enjoyment of seafood in Venice, a city on the sea and of the sea; for Venetians the sea has historically represented nothing less than freedom: freedom to move by boat through the city and beyond, freedom from invasion, and freedom from hunger. The Venice of today is a mix of tradition and innovation, and this book is a celebration of that combination. With its recipes and reflections on fish and wine, this book offers you the chance to bring a bit of Venice into your kitchen and onto your table. And as you enjoy these dishes with family and friends, remember that you are sharing in the story of the Adriatic Sea, its bounty, its history and its crown jewel, Venice itself. And again “When Venice Floods” of Giannandrea Mencini, dedicated to the Venetian tides; because of its exceptional morphology, built inside a lagoon, Venice has always been sensitive to this happening. The city is deluged by water several times a year, particularly between October and February when low pressure and cyclonic disturbances are more frequent. For all the others books we invite you to visit www.venicebooks.it, we remind you that all the books can be bought in the Hotel Alle Guglie as well, and that we are more than pleased to let you have any information you need about our prices and special offer for the next seasons.

Natural History Museum at Fondaco dei Turchi Venice

guglie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:34:02 +0000

The Natural History Museum of Venice is going to open again from March 10, 2010 with a restored and welcoming venue for the scientific and naturalistic education of new generations in particular. This new and fascinating exhibition is held at the Fondaco dei Turchi in Venice, very closed to the Hotel Alle Guglie, and has new eleven rooms, a new reception area and big garden outside the building. A museological approach and a museological system, both of them with a modern and original scheme. After the total restoration carried out over the last few years, which led to the reorganisation and updating of the museum system, and after the complete restoration of the collections (which cover a chronological scale spanning 700 million years, with two million exhibits; zoological, entomological and botanic collections; fossils and anatomical preparations, as well as ethnographic collections, “wonders”, and a library containing forty thousand works), another important phase of the new refurbishment has been finished. What is opening to the public today in one of the most famous palaces in the city, the Fondaco dei Turchi, that is radically restored museum, on the one hand reclaims and develops its scientific and educational tradition and on the other appraises and proposes new tools and methods in terms of its contents and the exhibition layout. All of this is the fruition of the work of a committed group, which sees architects and communication professionals working alongside the museum’s scientific directors. We shall be more than pleased to let you have any additional information about the Museum and invite you to visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

Zoran Music, Extreme Figure at Palazzo Franchetti, Venice

guglie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:51:48 +0000

The city of Venice is paying a tribute to Zoran Music, the Dalmatian artist considered among the most important personalities of the Twentieth century, with a great exhibition hosted at Palazzo Franchetti from 3rd December 2009 to 7th March 2010. ‘Zoran Music. Estreme figure’ celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth and it is made of more than eighty works, among which oil paintings and works on paper, some of which are unknown and exhibited for the first time. In particular the latest thirty years of the artist’s painting career are the object of a study, when his stripped representation has become extreme. Music’s works, going through nearly all the last century, actually show, in their rough and simple mark, a stripping journey towards the attainment of the essence. Unfailing are the images of an interior and extremely intimate Venice, where the artist lived after the end of the Second World War, alternating it with Paris. Venice is the town where Music feels free and which, in his latest years, appears as enveloped in an ink darkness or in the orange glow of an oil pastel: there are the evocative visions of the Punta della Dogana, the Canale della Giudecca, the Molino Stucky and St. Mark’s Square.

Sensation 2010, the Venice Carnival

guglie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:02:49 +0000

The Venice Carnival is the most important and largest Venetian festival, a sparkling cocktail of tradition, entertainment, history and transgression in this unique city and a festival that attracts thousands of people from all around the world every year. The Carnival has very old origins, in fact it celebrates the passage from winter into spring, a time when seemingly anything is possible, including the illusion where the most humble of classes become the most powerful by wearing masks on their faces. The official start of the Venice Carnival dates back to 1296, when the Senate of the Republic made the Carnival official with an edict declaring the day before Lent a public holiday. After an interruption lasting almost two centuries, the tradition of Carnival was rediscovered by the Municipality in 1980 and since then it has taken place every year with huge success. The Venice Carnival 2010 shall be a “Sensation” Carnival again: to be heard, to be seen, to be touched, to be tasted and to be imagined. A new Venice Carnival, concerning the five senses plus one, the mind, thought as the place of the soul: each sense will be located in a Venetian sestiere with the sixth one in St. Mark’s Square directly. Our Hotel Alle Guglie, being in Cannaregio district, shall be in the middle of the sense of “taste” that shall be the focus of the food and beverage events in all the sestiere, with lots of presentations dedicated to the theme along the streets and just in front of our hotel and the Guglie Bridge. This Carnival format will keep of course the events of its tradition, such as the flight of the Dove, the Feast of the Maries and all the streets and palaces fantastic and exciting parties but will decisively break off with the past as well, with the aim to join the city to all the sensations and feelings of the people. Should you want to have additional information about the Venice Carnival Sensation 2010, fell free to contact our team at the Hotel Alle Guglie; we shall be all more than pleased to provide you with the official program and with our best offer to spend an exciting break in Venice.

LOVE 2010 New Year Celebration in St. Mark’s Square in Venice

guglie — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:29:33 +0000

On December 31^st, Love 2010, the sensual Venetian way of celebrating the beginning of the New Year, returns to St. Mark’s Square, ready to set the heart of the city and fire the senses of all the people and beating the most important night of the year. Once again, St. Mark’s Square shall host the New Year celebrations with a lot of music, toasts and fireworks that shall end in a huge and sensual common kiss: just one unanimous kiss to send a message of love, peace and brotherhood to the world and to transform Venice for one night into the world capital of Love. The show shall begin at 22:00 with a lot of music and with Doug Jack, Jessica Polsky and the Venezia Suona Big Band and an exciting lesson of kiss held by Prince Maurice with a lot of suggestion to obtain the Perfect Kiss with a test of kiss at the end of the lesson. At 24:00 the countdown and the big fantastic kiss to welcome 2010 with the notes of “the miracle of Love”! At 00:05 a Bellini toast just in front of the Doge’s Palace offered by the Canella Wine Factory and then the marvelous firework under the unique frame of the basin of St. Mark’s Square. After that music, dance and kisses again in Venice! Visit our offer page to discover our prices and availability for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.

Prendergast In Italy – Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

guglie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:25:09 +0000

From Saturday October 10, 2009 to January 3, 2010 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is been hosting for the first time in Italy the exhibition ‘Prendergast in Italy’ that gives the public the opportunity to admire the works by the American Post-Impressionist artist who depicted the lagoon town and Italy in its whole in a huge number of artworks. Prendergast made all his works after two important trips in Italy, the first in 1898 when he stopped also in Padova, Firenze, Siena ,Assisi, Orvieto, Roma, Napoli and Capri, and the other in 1911. The display deals with the group of artworks dedicated to Venice, fixed by the artist in its modernity, through vivacious episodes of daily life. In fact Prendergast, as an American chronicler of a modern Venice, is fascinated by the modern nature of the Serenissima, with its rich and fashionable visitors, its parades and feasts which were, on the one hand, the representation of the historical tradition and, on the other one, the reply to international tourism, all this being depicted by means of picturesque impressionist views crowded with coloured multitudes of pedestrians going along calli, bridges and squares.
The 50 works on display, among watercolours, oil paintings and monotypes, beside photos, films, guidebook and travel advertisements, place the artist’s creations inside a new visual culture shared by the Americans at the beginning of the Twentieth century and contribute to create a strong impression of the topography, the habits and the Italian populations of ancient times. Visit all our Special Offer to discover our prices for your next holiday in Venice at the Hotel Alle Guglie.