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...The 39-suite Palazzo Roma, which opens on four floors of an aristocratic palace on the Via del Corso, is one such place....
...Director Maria Porro, who took over in 2021, trained in set design at Milan’s Brera Academy, and brings some of her background to the programme, asking David Lynch to design the headline installation....
...Great location, good (if trad-skewing) design, food and service — and easy proximity to the retail pleasures of Via del Corso and Via del Babuino Not so good for: The hipster on the hunt for a serious sui...
...Santa Maria in Via, Sant’Ignazio di Loyola and San Marcello al Corso churches are all within five minutes’ walking distance of each other....
...Here Portaluppi designed a major insurance building with (yet another) triumphal arch making a big urban statement and framing the view of the Chiesa Santa Maria presso San Satiro....
...Tucked between the Corso Venezia and Via Sant’Andrea, in the heart of Milan’s Quadrilatero fashion district, is a building that was one of Europe’s first seminaries....
...della Moda is Dolce & Gabbana’s new boutique entirely dedicated to the segment, initially housed in the brand’s palatial store in Via Monte Napoleone — which, together with Via della Spiga, Via Manzoni and Corso...
...Marchesi 1824 Via Santa Maria alla Porta 11/a, 20123 milan Good for: Coffee, cakes and panettone Not so good for: A time-limited customer — they’re always very busy here FYI: This is the original Marchesi...
...The building, established in the mid-16th century by Carlo Borromeo and long the seat of the Archdiocese of Milan, is Europe’s second-oldest seminary; its loggia – which connects Corso Venezia tothe Via...
...Food can be ordered from the restaurant downstairs, or you can eat in 10 Corso Como’s famously convivial dining rooms....
...Maria Shollenbarger Boccadasse, Italy Technically a southern suburb of Genoa, Boccadasse will be familiar to fans of Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano crime-fiction series as the home of the Sicilian...
...Sant’Eustorgio and Santa Maria delle Grazie are two of my favourites. The ’60s, ’70s and ’80s were alive with art and design, and Milan has many galleries to show for it....
...Alas, a stay here is highly improbable (the few apartments in the palazzo are all long-term lets) but the grand suites of the Residenza Napoleone, just down the Via del Corso, will bring the same pleasures...
...Over in Milan, meanwhile, Neri Baccheschi-Berti, the 29-year-old second-generation owner of Tuscany’s Castello di Vicarello, is this month opening the seven-room Vico on Corso Genova, close to the sought-after...
...If the urban jewel of Lecce is more your thing, then Palazzo Bozzi Corso should be your digs....
...In Rome’s central shopping street, Via del Corso, Maria Lipari is looking for a scarf to give to her daughter for Christmas....
...Joe met his wife, Maria Stevens, while they were both studying at St Martins. They married in 1980 and Maria worked closely with Joe, day in, day out, from the mid-1980s onwards....
...It is perhaps unsurprising that Maria Sebregondi, the woman who elevated the humble notebook to must-have status, would have sought the satisfaction of an at-home library....
...M Bardelli, Corso Magenta 13 (+3902-8645 0734; www.mbardelli.com). Coltelleria Lorenzi Milano, Corso Magenta 1 (+3902-869 2997; www.o-lorenzi.it)....
...Maria Lemos, who owns the Rainbowwave showroom, believes Paris sets the trends in jewellery....
...Her bid was supported by the PD, and she was elected, becoming the third woman in a short period to take mayoral seats in Calabria, following Maria Lanzetta in Monasterace (from 2006) and Carolina Girasole...
...My dear parents, Carmela Maria and Pasquale – he died five years ago – moved to London shortly after I was born....
...‘The Quattrocento in Rome: the Rebirth of Art from Donatello to Perugino’ is at Museo del Corso, Rome until September 7. www.museodelcorso.it...
...Cigoli was decorating a dome – it was the interior of the cupola of the Pauline Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore – and after he got hold of a telescope of his own he would send Galileo drawings of the sunspots...
...I needed help, however, so I telephoned Maria Grammatico, the Erice pastry chef who learnt her trade in an orphanage run by nuns and with whom I had written a book – surely she would be able to tell me what...
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