Rome: Metallica Concert, 24th June 2009

Summer in Rome will be fired up by Metallica’s music: the world tour of the American band will arrive in Rome on June the 24th.

The concert of Metallica in the eternal city will give thousands of fans the chance to spend a low cost holiday in Rome and to listen to the songs of the latest album of the band, Death Magnetic, released in September 2008. The 9th studio album of the band, the first one to be recorded with current bass player Robert Trujillo, who was hired after the defection of Jason Newsted, has achieved a great success, hitting number one of the charts in 25 countries, including Italy, and has been described by critics as a return to the style of the beginning and to a sound which makes it similar to albums like Master of Puppets and …And Justice for All, respectively released in 1986 and 1988.

The new album has been published 27 years after the formation of the band and 25 years after the first album (Kill ‘Em All, indeed, was published in 1983), but the band seems not to suffer the passing of time: Metallica are always at work, although they have had to face various difficult moments in their career, like the death of bass player Cliff Barton in 1986, alcohol problems (in 2001 James Hetfield temporarily left the band to take part in an alcohol rehabilitation program), the change of some members of the band (besides Jason Newsted, in 1983 guitarist Kirk Hammett replaced Dave Mustaine, then founder of Megadeth, with whom the band had an argument about the authorship of some songs realised while Mustaine was still part of Metallica). In 2001 Metallica also had to deal with a lawsuit against Napster, which had distributed via internet some songs of the band for free, and this contributed in creating the image of a band only interested in money. Nonetheless Metallica are still on the crest of the wave, and each published album has achieved a great success, although many old-guard fans did not really appreciate albums like Load and Re-Load, respectively published in 1996 and in 1997, which marked a change in the style of the band, visible also in their renewed look, cleared of long hair and leather clothes. Despite criticism, Metallica have always gone on, marking three decades with songs that everyone remembers (from The Four Horsemen to Fuel, from Nothing Else Matters to Until it Sleeps, from One to St Anger, just to give few examples), and receiving important awards also 25 years after their formation (in 2009 the band was awarded with a grammy for “Best Metal Performance”).

If you want to see one of the most important bands of the last few decades at work you only need to book a 3 star hotel in Rome and enjoy the concert of Metallica, a band that can best express the power of its music live. The band’s performance, which has already convinced many fans to book a cheap guest house in Rome and to buy a ticket, will be preceded by two interesting bands: Lamb of God and Mastodon.


Tickets: 46,00 – 63,25 euro
Date: 24th June 2009
Location: Palalottomatica, Rome, Italy


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Rome: 77th International Horse Show at Piazza di Siena, from the 28th to the 31st of May 2009

Since 1922 Piazza di Siena, at Villa Borghese (one of the largest and most fascinating parks in Rome), hosts an important horse event: the International Horse Show at Piazza di Siena.

The 77th edition of the International Horse Show at Piazza di Siena will take place from May the 28th to the 31st in the eternal city, attracting many turfmen and VIPs, who will probably lodge in luxury hotels in Rome, and who will not want to miss one of the most important and fascinating horse competitions in the world.

Both the race and the location where it takes place have a long and interesting story, which dates back to the end of the 18th century, when Prince Marcantonio Borghese commissioned from the architects Mario and Antonio Asprucci the project of a space where to organise events and palios which could remind him of Siena, the city of origin of Borghese family. Although the prince died before works were finished, his son carried on his project, and Villa Borghese became an ideal place to host feasts, celebrations and spectacular events. Piazza di Siena, at Villa Borghese, its name deriving from the family’s city of origin, has hosted horse events since 1922. Six years later, in 1928, the International Horse Show at Piazza di Siena was officially held for the first time: the first edition featured races between 4 teams (France, Poland, Spain and Italy), and with the passing of time the event has hosted unforgettable challenges between some of the best riders in the world, like Bettoni, D’Inzeo brothers and Graziano Mancinelli. Since 1928 the event has taken place every year except between 1940 and 1947, achieving a great success and confirming Piazza Di Siena to be one of the “sacred” locations of Italian horse racing. An evidence of the international importance of the event is given by the fact that in 2003 the show has been inserted in the Samsung Super League, which includes the 8 best international horse shows.

The tourists who will take advantage of Rome travel deals will take part in an event where history, show and competitive spirit mix, an event that can attract up to 50,000 people, who are interested in races but also in other happenings that make the event unmissable. Besides races, in which the 8 best classified teams of the season will take part, and which will give people the possibility to admire the ability of some of the best riders in the world, Piazza di Siena will host also other interesting shows, like the famous “Carosello dei Carabinieri” (Mounted Carabinieri Display): about 145 horses and riders take part in a very suggestive historical re-enactment. Many people book a guest house in Rome and join the event just not to miss this display, which traditionally closes the event. This show remains engraved on spectators’ memory: re-enacting ancient medieval tournaments, as well as the historic battle of Pastrengo (30th of April 1848), in which mounted Carabinieri played a very important role, Carabinieri parade and perform a series of extraordinary evolutions on horse.


Tickets: 12 – 60 euro
Date: 28th – 30th March 2009
Location: Piazza di Siena, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

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Who is responsible for social media marketing?

With the massive increasing popularity of Social Media and Social Media Marketing, online marketing professionals are now asking a couple of questions:

- “who is responsible for marketing and contents in this new challenge?”

- "Does this sit entirely within the marketing department?"

Traditional marketing teams have usually managed brand and marketing campaigns within their companies.

Now it's time for a more coordinated effort.

The new culture of participation gives us the opportunity for using the new instruments of Social Network to the benefit of the whole organization.

• How does the HR team use Social Media to attract new talents?
• How does the Operational Team use the Social Network tools to stay in touch with employees and maintain engagement?
• How can Social Media help the R&D team in tapping into new ideas and testing responses to new products?
• How does the Merchandising team use Social Media to test or seed new sample product?

With so many potential and challenging oportunities companies need now to develop a new overall Social Media strategy for their business.

The next question is whether the CEO is up to date with the shift in the way consumers now interact with social media...

Find more here: Social Media: who's responsible?

Rome: God Save the Punk, from the 12th to the 24th of May 2009

Is it possible to bring punk to theatre? Is it possible to represent one of the most deflagrating music phenomena ever with the limits of a play, without losing its explosive power? The show “God Save the Punk”, in Rome from May the 12th to the 24th, is an evidence of the fact that it is possible to tell the story of punk on a theatre stage mixing words and music, images and drama.

Carmen Giardina, an Italian actress and director, had the idea of realising a play inspired to punk music and culture after having read Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain, a book that deals with punk and gives voice to those who have really experienced this world, gathering interviews and statements issued by those people who can be somehow considered as the protagonists of punk: musicians, artists, but also groupies, record industrialists and journalists. The tales gathered in Please Kill Me are very lively, and they have inspired an even more involving play, which adds music and images to narration, in order to make this phenomenon live again, a phenomenon that was born at the end of the 60s, reached its climax in the 70s and keeps having followers all over the world and influencing contemporary music, fashion and culture.

Book now a bed and breakfast in Rome and get ready to enjoy a unique play where three actors (Nicole De Leo, Fabio Gomiero and Enrico Salimbeni) play the main figures of punk, give voice to their thoughts and tell their, often tragic, stories: from Lou Reed’s shock treatment to the death of Sid Vicious, Johnny Thunder and Nico, not forgetting a wide range of other people who have come down in musical history, like Iggy Pop, Patty Smith, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Malcolm McLaren, the Clash. Actors act on an innovative, digital scene, which features only various screens where images and performances of punk musicians are projected. Planning a vacation in Rome and watching the show means immersing oneself in punk music: in such a show, indeed, music cannot but play a main role. Songs have been selected by Pivio & Aldo de Scalzi, composers of many successful soundtracks, and these songs give spectators the possibility to rediscover, if necessary, the rebel sound of those artists who were not able to play perfectly, and yet succeeded in shaking up the world of music.

The show “God Save the Punk”, which was successfully staged in 2008, will be enacted at Vascello Theatre: every evening the show will feature a 15 minutes video called “Il video racconta il punk” (Videos tell punk), which glances at Italian punk panorama and which will be updated every evening.

Book a hotel in Rome city centre and enjoy a show that will take you to the heart of punk, and which will tell you something more about this music, social and cultural phenomenon, giving voice to the words and music of the protagonists of punk.


Date: 12th – 24th May 2009
Location: Teatro Vascelli, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostels in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Summer camp in Rome.

Rome: Letterature – International Literature Festival, from the 26th of May to the 25th of June 2009

The first summer cultural event in Rome is “Letterature”, an international literature festival that has hosted some of the best Italian and international writers since 2002.

“Letterature” will take place in the eternal city from May the 26th to June the 25th (save these dates: 26-29 May, 4, 5, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25 June), and will gather in a beautiful venue (Basilica di Massenzio at Foro Romano) 16 narrators, 8 poets and 2 scientists, besides a number of spectators, who book 3 stars hotel in Rome every year to immerse themselves in literature. The event formula is unvaried: authors, who have been chosen because of their literary importance or in virtue of the success achieved by their works, will present brand new works inspired by a common theme which has been suggested by the organisers of the event. This year the theme will be “Terra Luna, una infinita risonanza” (“Earth Moon, an endless resonance”), which gives us the possibility to think about the dichotomy ourselves-elsewhere, and which is meant to celebrate a theme that has always inspired scientists, writers and poets, from Galileo to Leopardi and Pirandello.

The festival is meant to look into the different aspects of the dichotomy earth-moon, giving space to all literary genres, from fantasy novels to poetry: literature lovers cannot miss the chance to enjoy a trip to Rome and meet some of the most appreciated Italian and international authors. The festival will kick off with an extraordinary couple: America Andrew Sean Greer, whose novel The Story of a Marriage has been very appreciated both by readers and by critics, and Margaret Mazzantini, one of the most appreciated and awarded contemporary Italian writers (Don’t Move and Venuto al Mondo are only two of her best-known novels). The festival will include also many other interesting events: “Lunar Park, scritture stralunate” will host Edoardo Albinati and Vinicio Capossela, while Swede John Ajvide Lindqvist and Italian fantasy novelist Licia Troisi will participate in the event named “L’ombra della luna, scritture dell’immaginario”. “Il verso della luna” is the name of the evening dedicated to poetry, while “La luna nel pozzo” will host Roberto Piumini, a fairy tales writer, and Andrea Vitali. Space will be given also to legal thriller, with John Grisham, the author that has sold the most during the 90s, and to crime fiction, with Swede Bjorn Larsson and American Matthew Pearl. Petros Markaris, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Ermanno Cavazioni too will take part in the event, while the physicist Carlo Rovelli and the geologist Mario Tozzi will close the festival dealing with the theme “Earth Moon” from a scientific point of view.

“Letterature” is a festival where authors read out passages of their own works, and where words and other expression means mix together: different kinds of music played by djs and bands (like Giardini di Mirò, Luna Riverse, Port Royal) will accompany the readings, and every meeting will be introduced by a trailer made up of images and music. However, the focus will always be on the main feature of the festival, i.e. on words, in particular words in tales and poetry, to highlight their importance not only as expression means, but also as matter to be moulded into art. Book now an apartment in Rome.


Tickets: free event
Date: 26th May – 25th June 2009
Location: Basilica di Massenzio, Rome, Italy


This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostels in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Bed breakfast Rome near Coliseum.

Rome: Brazil through its Artists from the 21st of April to the 23rd of May 2009

Brazil is a wonderful and fascinating country, pervaded as it is by amazing colours and landscapes and captivating music and rhythm. A melting-pot of cultures characterised by deep-rooted traditions, Brazil is one of the most longed-for travel destinations for travellers from all over the world, and it is universally appreciated and well-known for Rio Carnival, for its beaches, for the Amazon Forest, but also for the art and culture which emanate from this country.

To make people discover the best of Brazilian art, but also to present Brazil from the point of view of those artists who were born or have lived in Brazil, and who have taken inspiration from their homeland, from the 21st of April to the 23rd of May Rome will host the exhibition “Brazil through its Artists”.

The visitors of the exhibition, which will be held in the Brazilian Embassy, will take advantage of their holiday in Rome to take a journey to a more distant land, to discover landscapes which are sometimes made even more magic by the brush of some of the most appreciated Brazilian artists in the world: Roberto Burle Marx, who is considered as one of the best contemporary landscapists, and who is well-known also for having projected the UNESCO gardens in Paris; Carybé, a painter, engraver and sculptor who realised some murals for New York’s John F. Kennedy airport; João Henrique, who with his extraordinary technique in using colours has succeeded in displaying his works all over the world; Antônio Maia, whose works, which are characterised by strong colours and precise symbols, reveal the country’s folkloristic traditions; Lia Mittarakis, who is well-known for her bright works representing folkloristic scenes; Cândido Portinari, who is considered as the most important painter in Brazil, and who has also realised the murals “War” and “Peace” for the United Nations building; Marylu Prado, an abstract artist who has been dedicated various personal exhibitions also in some European cities ; Francisco Da Silva, who was awarded a prize at the Venice Biennale in 1966; Rubem Valentim, an abstract-geometrical artist who often used the signs of Afro-American rituals.

Nine artists who will convince contemporary art lovers to book an apartment in Rome and go to the eternal city to visit a unique exhibition, which mixes styles and subjects which are very different from each other, and for this reason they can perfectly describe the diversity of Brazilian landscape, characterised as it is by lush vegetation but also by conurbations, and the traditions and rituals rooted in the culture of the country. An unmissable chance to learn something more not only about Brazilian art, but also about some of Brazil’s main features: since the 16th century Brazil has been a multiethnic and multicultural country, characterised by the mix of religions and cultures of African, European and indigenous people, and able to absorb all the different influences coming from various parts of the world to create a new, typically Brazilian, culture and identity. And this Brazilian capacity of fusion is particularly evident in this exhibition, which shows how Brazilian art has assimilated and reworked some of the most important European artistic currents, like impressionism, fauvism, cubism and surrealism, but also abstractionism, expressionism and concretism.

Book now a hotel in the centre of Rome and get ready to discover Brazil.


Tickets: free event
Date: 21st April – 23rd May 2009
Location: Brazilian Embassy, Cândido Portinari Gallery, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostels in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Cheap Hotel reservations in Rome.

Rome: World Press Photo from the 8th to the 28th of May 2009

If you have a passion for photography do not miss the World Press Photo exhibition, which will be held in Rome in May, from the 8th to the 28th of May 2009.

World Press Photo is a non-profit organization created in Amsterdam in 1955, and it is meant to promote high-level photojournalism and contribute to the free exchange of information. The famous, homonymous photo contest is one of the main activities organised by the association, and for over 50 years it has awarded prizes to the best photos realised by press photographers from all over the world. Nowadays it is considered as the largest and most prestigious press photography contest in the world, an evidence of this being given by the numbers of the contest, which in this edition has reached record levels: 5,508 professional photographers coming from 124 different countries have presented their works (96,000 images). Moreover a great number of Asian photographers (Chinese and Indians in particular) have taken part in this year’s edition, 14% more than the previous edition. All photos have been divided into 10 categories (Spot News, General News, People in the News, Sports Action, Sports Features, Contemporary Issues, Daily Life, Portraits, Arts and Entertainment, Nature) and have undergone the evaluation of an international jury, which has awarded prizes to 62 photographers coming from 27 different counties, confirming that images, more than any other means of communication, can go beyond geographical, cultural and language boundaries.

The photos that are awarded a prize are always published in a book and displayed all over the world: also this year the World Press Photo exhibition, after being held in Amsterdam, will be set up in many other cities, like Rome: book now a hotel in Rome and find the time to watch some of the best and most representative photos of 2008, images that have been describing the most meaningful events of the year. The visitors who are planning a trip to Rome will have the possibility to admire the image that has been awarded the first prize: the picture, which was took by American Anthony Suau, is a black and white image featuring an officer in an apartment in Cleveland, Ohio. The man holds a gun and walks in a chaotic room, as if it was a war image. In fact the officer is simply checking that the people who have been turned out of their home have left the apartment, but the fact that the image reminds us of war is very meaningful, and the photo has been awarded because it is a sort of symbol of the world crisis, which brings war into the houses of those who cannot pay their debts. Also in this edition, then, the jury has awarded the main prize to a photographer who uses his ability to portray important contemporary issues.

Spend some days in the eternal city (you can stay in a campsite in Rome), and watch the photos taken by Italian photographers. Many Italian photographers have been awarded this year: Giulio Di Sturco, Davide Monteleone, Paolo Verzone, Massimo Siragusa, Mattia Insolera, Carlo Gianferro.


Tickets: 5,50 euro, reduced 4,00
Date: 8 – 28 May 2009
Location: Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, Italy


This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostels in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Holiday apartments in Rome.

Moesi5Essence. A restyling concept of International Moesi’s Channels

A web presence dedicated to the youngest of the Moesi Divisions, "Furnishing Fragrances, Colours and Forms". It starts with Moesi5Essence.com, the restyling concept project of the international channels linked to the Moesi brand.

Moesi5Essence.com is the website dedicated to the Fragrances and Essences of Moesi Handmade in Italy. "In the coming weeks" – says Simone Zoccarato, MD Moesi s.n.c. – " there will be on line dedicated versions by Country, starting with the Italian version to pass further on to the French one, and lastly to the Russian reference website". The basis for this web investment "is the need to organize our international presence on the web in a single concept" – the MD continues – "creating a reference network for easy navigation and consultation depending on the needs of the users".

 

The new concept, developed by Comminact LLC – PR and Web Communication Company – is a broad comprehensive project "involving different solutions, both traditional and Web 2.0" - explains Daniele Antoniani, Project Development for Comminact LLC – "from the organization of a homogeneous web path to the utilization of the API of Google Maps, through e-Bay, Twitter and Facebook" . A dynamic international web presence in progress, flexible and "able to adapt itself to the ROI and to any consequent eventual changes in priorities "- Daniele Antoniani says – "with the aim of an optimal design output for the achievement of the medium / long-term targets as set by Moesi".

Moesi5Essence (Quintessenza) the new Division of Moesi Handmade In Italy dedicated to natural essences and fragrances for the well-being at home. In a sector where the Made in China is very popular, Moesi is able to offer a range of products Made in Italy availing itself of perfumes and natural components (with no added colouring) for the creation of essences and fragrances entirely produced in Italy and matched with very original objects that allow the new Division of Moesi to enter the market of essences and perfumes as useful and original gifts. Furnishing Fragrances, Colours and Forms presented by Sensation, Mediterraneo and Imagination mother lines.

Moesi is interior design items in glass design, ceramics design, contemporary decorative objects and bijoux accessories. Moesi proposes innovative items, result of the artisan care with which they have been made. The interior design objects and the jewels of the bijoux lines in Murano’s glass are the work of skilled craftsmen. Unique objects on account of refinement and elegance of the materials selected, entirely Made in Italy. Productions devoted to the sectors of interior design furnishings, gift items, wedding cadeaux and high-quality bijoux.

For more informations:

skype MOESI_Italy
Tel No. +39.049.5565953
Fax No. +39.049.9217571
mail info [at] moesi.com
corporate site www.moesi.com

Low cost Meridiana-Eurofly flights to Cagliari

Meridiana-Eurofly offers more national and international flights to meet the needs of customers guaranteing low cost prices and a regular service: Rome Fco - Cagliari at 61 € one way all included. 4500 seats from June to September 2009.

Cagliari is the capital of Sardinia, in Classical Age, it was called Kalares, in latin Càralis, and in Sardinian Castèddu. With Meridiana-Eurofly you can leave from Rome to arrive at Elmas Airport, from where you can reach hotel, flats or bed and breakfast to enjoy a city rich of history and natural beauty.

Cagliari is, in fact, an important cultural centre, seat of University, churches and ancient building, like San Saturnino, the most ancient church of Sardinia.

About sea, the famous Poetto beach is very charming, it is long about eight kilometres from Sella del Diavolo to Quartu Sant’Elena coast.

You can enjoy night life walking along the little roads of downtown and you can taste good fish and above all the delicious Sardinian food: malloreddu, seadas, porcetto and more.

Surrounding, you can find the beautiful Costa Rei and some of the most famous places of Sardinia, Villasimius and Santa Margherita of Pula, for a vacation in a beautiful sea.

Meridiana-Eurofly reminds you web check-in service available for everyone leaving from Cagliari, starting from May the first, 2009 .

Rome: Depeche Mode Concert, 16th June 2009

Not many bands succeed in going through decades and music trends always achieving success and being appreciated both by critics and by different generations of music lovers, as if the passing of time, exactly as happens for wine, could only bring advantages to them. Depeche Mode certainly belong to this category.

Depeche Mode, born in 1980, have been one of the most important bands of that decade, and they have been able to renew themselves without rejecting their past, realising successful records also in the 90s and succeeding in carrying their music into the new millennium. With the publication of the new album Sounds of the Universe, this year in April, the band is celebrating an almost 30 years long career (the first album, Speak & Spell, was published in 1981), 30 years marked by ups and downs, by great success, by songs and concerts that went down in history but also by crisis, abandonment and recommencements, 30 years that have turned the band into a landmark in world’s music panorama.

To listen to the songs of the new album, which has hit charts at number one in 20 countries in the first week after its publication, while in other 10 countries (even in the United States, a traditionally difficult market for British bands, but not for Depeche Mode) it has moved up to the first 3 positions, the fans of the band will take part in one of the concerts of the long promotional tour of the new album: the “Tour of the Universe” will kick off in Tel Aviv on May 10th (the band was supposed to play in Israel during their previous tour in 2006, but the event was cancelled due to war), and will then go on all over the world. Italian fans shall book a guest house in Rome on June the 16th: the band will play at the Olimpico Stadium (in Italy they will also perform in Milan on June the 18th), for a concert that is expected to be unforgettable: Depeche Mode are very appreciated not only for their records, but also for their live exhibitions, and in this sense Italy seems to bring them luck, as in 2006, during the “Touring the Angel” tour, they chose an Italian city, Milan, to record a date of their tour and realise a DVD (Touring the Angel: Live in Milan).

This is a unique chance to visit Rome and take part in one of the most important music events of this summer at once, an event that will most probably be sold out (you’d better hurry up if you want to buy the last tickets and find a lodging in Rome), a concert that will give the fans of Depeche Mode the possibility to listen to old and new songs, like the singles taken from the new album, Wrong and Peace. Moreover the “Tour of the Universe” is the first ever stadium tour of the band, and also for this reason it is expected to attract a huge number of people and to match, and maybe surpass, the record of sold tickets in Europe during their previous tour.


Tickets: 41,40 – 57,50 euro
Date: 16th June 2009
Location: Olimpico Stadium, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Youth Hostel in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Cheap Guest House in Rome.

Rome: Art and Advertising. Italian Advertisement and Avant-Gardes 1920-1940, from the 26th of February to the 24th of May 2009

From the 26th of February to the 24th of May the exhibition “Art and Advertising. Italian Advertisement and Avant-Gardes 1920-1940” will be held in Rome. The exhibitory spaces of Casino dei Principi, in Musei di Villa Torlonia, will host about 100 posters realised between the 20s and the 40s, which show the connection between art and advertising and between advertising and industrial and economic development.

The first forms of advertisements date back centuries: on the walls of some houses in Pompei, which was destroyed by the volcano eruption, some writings have been found, which announced events, shows and competitions or persuaded people to vote for a given candidate. However, before the print invention, advertising was made through oral channels, like barkers and criers. With the print invention, in the 15th century, the first advertisements were published in newspapers, but it was during the Industrial Revolution, thus with the increase in production, products variety and competition between entrepreneurs, that the need of promoting products and informing customers arose, contributing to the birth of a type of advertising which was very similar to nowadays advertisements. In Italy, which was industrially and economically underdeveloped if compared to other countries, the first advertisements began to be widespread between the middle of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, both in newspapers and through posters, which soon became the main means of mass communication, and in the first half of the 20th century they were considered not only as an instrument to promote products, but also as a means of artistic expression.

Between the 20s and the 40s Italy underwent a particular period, characterised by political and social changes and industrial development. These years were marked by mass culture and production, fascism and propaganda, conquests and enthusiasm for modernity. In this period advertisements, which spread rapidly, became also a field of research and experimentation for artists: in this period some of the most important 20th century’s artists, like Adolfo Wild, Duilio Cambellotti, Mario Sironi, Lucio Fontana and the futurists Balla, Depero and Prampolini, realised advertisements.

The exhibition “Art and Advertising. Italian Advertisement and Avant-Gardes 1920-1940” is meant to show the evolution of art in advertising displaying books, posters and sketches realised in the first half of the 20th century: book now a 2 star hotel in Rome and visit the 6 sections of the exhibition, to discover how art and advertisement have changed through time, from the graphic refinement of the beginning of the century to the colouring of Futurism, to expressionism and rationalism. Taking advantage of Rome travel deals you will have the possibility to discover how in those years political propaganda mixed with art experimentation, revealing the communication and symbolic power of advertisements, but you will appreciate the displayed posters not only in virtue of their artistic value, but also for their historical importance: advertisements, indeed, tell us something more about Italy’s politics, habits, and industrial and economic development in the 20th century.

Do not miss this interesting exhibition: book now a cheap bed and breakfast in Rome.


Date: 26th February – 24th May 2009
Location: Musei di Villa Torlonia - Casino dei Principi, Rome, Italy


This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostel in Rome. For any information, please visit Holidays in Rome or for travel information have a look to 3 stars Hotels in Rome.

Rome: Tekfestival from the 7th to the 11th of May 2009

From the 7th to the 11th of May Rome hosts Tekfestival, an independent and social documentary festival, which celebrates its 8th edition this year.

The Tekfestival, which will be held in the three rooms of the new Aquila Cinema in Rome, will then take place also in Frascati (on the 12th and 13th of May), in the Cultural Centre “Zip”, invading the two cities with a number of interesting films, accompanied by special events, exhibitions, discussions and meetings with directors, which attract about 4000 cinema lovers in the campsites of Rome and surroundings every year. Although it is a fairly young happening, indeed, Tekfestival has already achieved a great success, and it is already considered as very important in the field of Italian and international film promotion.

An evidence of this is given by the fact that Tekfestival hosts every year the projection of important films, many of them having already been awarded prestigious prizes in other festivals, and some international, Italian or regional previews. The projection of meaningful and prestigious films during the festival is also due to a continuous work of research, which includes the participation in other important international festivals and having relationships with culture associations, production houses, authors and filmmakers. All this is meant to achieve precise aims: to offer a selection of the best international works to Italian and international visitors, who travel to Rome every year; to support Italian social documentary; to give visitors the possibility to meet authors; to widely promote documentary cinema producing a DVD of a film presented in the previous edition of the festival.

A peculiarity of the festival, which makes it even more special, is its heterogeneity: the festival, indeed, is a mix of different genres and subjects, and an evidence of this variety is also given by the number of sections that the festival includes. This year about 80 films representing the best of Italian and international social and independent cinema will be divided in the following sections: “Panorami” (Overview), which features 20 films and documentaries dealing with outstanding, topical subjects that have already been presented in some of the most important Italian and international festivals; “Zoom it”, i.e. the section dedicated to Italian emerging documentarists; “Rassegna di cinema delle donne” (A Review of Women’s Cinema), a section which is meant to make people discover the works realised by outstanding women in the field of contemporary cinema; “1989-2009: la memoria del presente è la visione”, (1989-2009: the memory of the present is vision), a section which, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is intended to analyse how the memory and perception of this epochal event has changed in time both in Italy and all over Europe; “Agender”, which provides a starting point for discussions about subjects like gender identity and sexual orientation; “Pericolosamente ad Est” (Dangerously at East), which includes films and documentary coming from East Europe; “Banda larga” (Wide Band), a section dedicated to the new generations who live and grow up in the era of globalisation and temporary employment, to their dreams and problems.

The festival hosts many special events, which enrich the programme of the festival and which convince many people to book a guest house in Rome: one of the most interesting events of this new edition is the exhibition of political and social bills realised by the draughtswoman Teresa Sdralevich, who has realised campaigns against accidents at work and violence against women and children, as well as bills for cultural events and cinema festivals.


Date: 7th – 11th May 2009
Location: Aquila Cinema, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap Hostels in Rome for any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to 2 stars Hotels in Rome.

Rome: Race for the Cure, 17th of May 2009

Since 2000 Rome has hosted “Race for the Cure”, a short, 5 km marathon which is mainly meant to raise funds for the prevention and the cure of breast cancer.

The marathon “Race for the Cure” was first held in 1982 in the United States, and was then exported to many other countries, like Italy: on the 17th of May Rome will host the 20th edition of the race, that has taken place for two years also in Bari and in Bologna (this year the marathon will be held in the two Italian cities on the 24th of May and on the 27th of September respectively). The event is a good mix of sport, entertainment and solidarity, which persuades every year a number of sportspeople, but not only them, to spend a low cost weekend in Rome: while the first edition which took place in Italy’s capital city attracted about 5,000 people, with the passing of time the event has grown, and last year it set the record of 37,000 participants. According to the organisers, this number is expected to increase in 2009, as this year the 10th edition of the race will be celebrated.

One of the reasons of the success of the event is the variety of spaces and happenings that it includes, which are meant to meet everyone’s needs and desires and to combine perfectly solidarity, discussions on important issues and entertaining. The ones who love sport, marathon in particular, will enjoy the race: professional runners will have the possibility to take part in a real competition (both individually and as part of a group), and to be awarded (prizes include awards for the first 10 classified men, the first ten classified women, the first 10 groups and the first 10 “pink ladies”, i.e. women who have faced or are fighting against breast cancer, and who will wear a pink t-shirt and cap), but also people who have not practised or who simply prefer to take a walk will participate in the event, taking part in a 2 km walk which takes place through some of the most beautiful areas of Rome. This is also a good chance for families to book a family hotel in Rome and spend a day outdoors in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and children will also have the possibility to have fun in a wide and equipped fun area.

If you wish to take part in the race book an apartment in Rome city centre: the start is set at 10:00 o’clock at the “Nando Martellini” Stadium, Terme di Caracalla, where many stalls and special spaces will be set up for those who prefer not to take part in the marathon: live music, stalls of the sponsors and much more. However, the event is mainly meant to raise funds for research and cure (participants in the marathon will pay at least a 10 euro contribution) and to promote prevention: early diagnosis, indeed, can increase the chance of survival up to 90%. To give a concrete help and signal, on the 16th of May a “Prevention Village” will be set up and here, giving priority to the most disadvantaged women, women will have the chance to undergo free breast examinations, echographies and mammographies.


Tickets: 10 euro
Date: 17th May 2009
Location: “Nando Martellini” Stadium, Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Cheap hotels in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Discount campsite in Rome.

Rome: Futurism Avant-garde – Avant-gardes, from 20th of February to 24th of May 2009

On the 20th of February, exactly 100 years after the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism in Le Figaro by Tommaso Marinetti, the exhibition “Futurism Avant-garde – Avant-gardes” has been opened in Rome.

The exhibition, which will be held at the Scuderie del Quirinale until the 24th of May (you still have few weeks time to book a cheap hotel in Rome and visit the exhibition), is considered as one of the most important international art events of the year, as an unmissable chance to learn something more about an art movement that marked the 20th century. The exhibitory space of the Scuderie del Quirinale, indeed, will host 77 works coming from museums and private collections from all over the world, which will help the visitors who will spend their holiday in Rome to understand how Futurism has upset the rules of art and has influenced many other art movements. The exhibition features several rare paintings and many masterpieces realised by some of the most important artists of the 20th century, which are now considered as classic, like Umberto Boccioni’s “La risata” and Carlo Carrà’s “I funerali dell’anarchico Galli”, from the Museum of Modern Art of New York, George Braque’s “Le grand nu” and Pablo Picasso’s “La femme assise dans un fauteuil” from the Centre Pompidou, Carlo Carrà’s “La stazione di Milano” and Gino Severini’s “Le voci della mia stanza” from the Staatsgalerie of Stuttgart, Umberto Boccioni’s “Volumi orizzontali” from Munich picture gallery.

The exhibition, which has already been held in Paris (from October 2008 to January 2009), and will take place also in London (from June to September 2009), highlighting the importance that this art movement has had all over Europe, is made special by an interesting exhibitory path, which characterises the three venues of the exhibition: works have been displayed with philological care, trying to reconstruct the futurist exhibition that took place in 1912 in Paris, at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery, an event that presented the futuristic philosophy to the world, highlighting the contrast between Futurism and pre-existing art rules, and which caused an outcry and contributed to the diffusion of the ideas of speed and dynamism, which are typical of Futurism.

The innovation brought by Futurism influenced also many other art movements, and the exhibition is meant to highlight how this avant-garde helped to reformulate the vocabulary of art, focusing on the connections between Futurism and Cubism, another important art movement of the 20th century (a section of the exhibition will be dedicated to cubist paintings), as well as between Futurism and other avant-gardes, like Russian Cubo-Futurism, British Vorticism and American Synchronism.

If you book a youth hostel in Rome and visit the exhibition, you will certainly be impressed by the originality and power of the works of Futurism, a movement which touched all artistic genres, but which through painting succeeded in expressing entirely its philosophy, a philosophy which fascinated generations and which has preserved its appeal to the present day. To make also younger generations discover Futurism, children from 3 to 11 years old will have the possibility to take part in special paths, featuring animated visit and art workshops.


Tickets: 10 euro, reduced tickets 7.50 euro
Date: 20th February – 24th May 2009
Location: Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Youth Hostel in Rome. For any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Cheap B&B in Rome.

Meridiana-Eurofly: from Cagliari, web check-in users increase.

From the first informations about check-in users in the airport of Cagliari there is a clear preference for the web-check-in, considering business travellers flying to Rome and to Linate. If you travel for business timing is more important and crossing the lines at the traditional check, becomes a true plus.

The service of web check-in of Meridiana-Eurofly, already active on the airports of Catania, Florence, Milan Linate, Naples, Olbia and Rome Fiumicino, is active from 1° the May for all the passengers in departure from Mameli Airport of Cagliari.

Rome: American Roadside Architecture from 27th of March to 3rd of May 2009

From the famous Route 66 to Kerouac’s On the Road, not forgetting many cult movies like Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, American highways are become part of the public imagination and a symbol for travel and adventure.

Some of the features of American highways, like gas stations, diners and motels, are very familiar also for the people who have never been to the United States, and this is due above all to the great number of movies which have been set in these places. However, if these buildings are well-known by many people, this is due also to the creativity and imagination of the first “roadside entrepreneurs”, who built bizarre motels, gas stations and restaurants, and who vied each other to catch the driver’s attention and get them to stop. If you wish to see these peculiar buildings, which are now disappearing, but you do not have the possibility to travel throughout the United States, you can plan a budget holiday in Rome and visit the exhibition “American Roadside Architecture”, from the 27th of March to the 3rd of May at the H.C. Andersen Museum: you still have few weeks time to book a 1 star hotel in Rome and visit the exhibition, which includes 55 pictures realised by John Margolies, a photographer, architect, author of books, lecturer, expert and historian of architecture, who has travelled throughout the United States for about 30 years, looking for the most unusual and picturesque buildings.

From his pictures a very interesting image of America in the first half of the 20th century emerge: in that period, also because of the spread of cars, more streets and highways began to be built, while a new category of people, that of travellers, began to come into sight, and they had new requests: stopping and sleeping near the highway, refuelling and eating something. For this reason American highways began to host motels, restaurants and gas stations characterised by huge and bizarre-shaped signs, which were meant to catch the drivers’ attention: gigantic hot dog-, ice cream-shaped signs, or signs representing some of the symbols of the regions where these buildings arose, but in some cases the shapes of signs and buildings were simply born of the imagination of the new roadside entrepreneurs.

The Rome exhibition is divided into 3 sections: gas station, diners and lodging, and all the sections will amaze the visitors and will make them plunger into the past and discover a feature of American architecture which is not always taken into consideration, but which is very useful as it can tell us something more about American society.

The exhibition is an unmissable event for all those who have rented a holiday house in Rome also because it is not so easy to admire these picturesque buildings in loco, as they are gradually disappearing or are in decline: this is due to the great chains of restaurants and hotels which are replacing the old diners and motels, which were mainly family run, to the building of a new system of fast relief roads, but also to the removal of the old petrol pumps as a consequence of some laws for the environment safeguard.


Tickets: free event
Date: 27th March – 3rd May 2009
Location: H.C. Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy

This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from Youth Hostel in Rome for any information, please visit Travel in Rome or for travel information have a look to Discount Apartments in Rome.

Eurotech present today the new ACS-5125 PC/104 Plus MIL-Rated 25W Power Supply module

Eurotech announces the new 25W isolated PC/104 power supply for military ground vehicle and aircraft installed systems that meets the system requirements of military vehicle, aircraft, machine or vessel installations

Amaro (Italy), May 29, 2009 - Eurotech presents today the ACS-5125, a new MIL-rated PC/104 Plus power supply. The ACS-5125 is a 25W isolated module designed to meet the system requirements of military vehicle, aircraft, machine or vessel installations. The module supplies +5V @ 5A with overload protection and without any de-rating.

The ACS-5125 is compliant with EC low voltage directives and consists of a DC/DC converter and an optional EMC filter. The DC/DC converter meets the requirements for conducted emission and immunity of MIL-STD-461E (EMC performance) and of MIL-STD-810F (environmental performance). When the optional EMC filter is also mounted, the ACS-5125 additionally complies with MIL-STD-1275A/B/C & MIL-STD-704 (emission and immunity performance).

Additional features of the ACS-5125 DC/DC converter are well-controlled outputs with no overshoot and control functions such as voltage trim, remote sense and inhibit. It can also generate an over temperature warning signal (at 102°C) that gives user control over the temperature shutdown function of the converter via an I2C interface. The optional EMC filter adds protection against conducted susceptibilities, surges and spikes.
Resistance to high levels of shock and vibration are a result of the mechanical solutions adopted in this ruggedised PC/104-Plus footprint compliant module: these include the use of the PCB for heat dissipation, component selection and extensive use of SMD components.

In addition, the power supply construction allows for the EMI filter, DC/DC converter and the heat dissipating protection devices to be mounted on the top or on the bottom side of the board. This allows for the maximum configuration flexibility when integrating the ACS-5125 in a system and easily supports the use of structural heat sinking, enabling reliable temperature operation (-40 to +85 °C) without any active cooling.

EUROTECH GROUP HEADQUARTERS

EUROTECH S.p.A.
Via F. Solari 3/a
33020 Amaro (UD) - ITALY
Tel. +39 / 0433 485411
Fax. +39 / 0433 4854499

www.eurotech.com
sales-it@eurotech.com

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Meridiana-Eurofly: new online service to buy checked-in baggage and equipments sport.

Now you can buy online the golf bag, the transportations of dogs into the hold, the excess baggageor the baggage which is previewed from the Company.


From today no more lines at the airport check-in to buy the transportation of special baggage as sport equipments (bikes, surf, golf bags, etc…), for dogs or for excess baggage Company’s allowance.


You can plan and buy online all these services on the web site Meridiana-Eurofly, when you buy the ticket or also later, recalling with a few easy clicks the reservation already did.


You can buy online also the baggage for flights in code share with other carriers which apply the rule of into the hold baggage sale. For example on the flights between Rome and Catania or Palermo and between Verona and Catania, where Meridiana has a code sharing agreement with Wind Jet, company that previews the purchasing of baggage into the hold transportation.


Purchasing online application, of all services connected to into the hold transportation, is thought to meet the special necessities of passengers, avoiding to lose precious time in the airport.


For all passengers that have the Vip Fly Pass card, the fees are dedicated to prize the most faithful customers of Meridiana-Eurofly.


More web, less lines, it’s easier to fly Meridiana-Eurofly.

Tickets Uffizi Gallery | Florence:

Museum-ticket.it is pleased to communicate the extraordinary opening of the state museums in Florence implemented by a ministerial project
and by the voluntary availability of the staff, on Monday 1st of June 2009. Do not miss this event that gives you the opportunity to visit Florence as precious temple of art, culture and beauty and its museums as custodians of invaluable treasures.

For booking tickets please visite www.museum-ticket.it

Meridiana-Eurofly: flight to New York at 363 € round trip.

A journey to New York is an unforgettable experience: thanks to Meridiana-Eurofly, the opportunity to fly in the Big Apple becomes a real possibility for everyone.

Your low cost trip starts with a fly ticket at 363 € (3000 seats) round trip all inclusive. You can fly from Naples, Palermo and Rome Fiumicino, from the 21th of May to the 16th of October 2009.

But Meridiana-Eurofly has a long eye, the low cost flight is a choice also for who doesn’t want to renounce to a first class accomodation in the centre of Manhattan as at Plaza Hotel, at Roosvelt, at Bedford, at Helmsley or at Radisson Lexington. You can go to New York with a very low budget, the rest of the trip is all for you!

New web check-in free service from Cagliari

Web Check-in service of Meridiana-Eurofly, already working on the airport of Catania, Florence, Milan Linate, Naples, Olbia and Rome Fiumicino, today is available for all passengers departuring from the Mameli Airport in Cagliari.

Following easy steps, all passengers with ticket purchased on the web site Meridiana-Eurofly and registered on the web check-in section can choose the sit on board, do the check-in online for their flight reservation and print their own board paper.
Making the web check-in, it’s possible to choose the sit on board in advance, from one week until three hour before the flight.
Passengers that use web check-in Service the day of the departure can go directly to the security control and to access straight to the board gate.

Today Meridiana-Eurofly offers this service through his web site for all flights departuring from Cagliari, except the ones operated from ATR42 aircrafts, but soon they will be filled in the list for the available check-in online.

Sardinia luxury resorts

For more info
Sardinia luxury Resorts Hotel Flamingo.

The leading portable toilets producer Armal increments its sales network in Cyprus

Armal Portable Toilets is pleased to announce the opening of the second Showroom and Goods Distribution Centre in Nicosia.

After the winning first Dealer's Showroom in the UK, the portable toilets producer Armal continues to expand his sales network by choosing the second location in which the distributor has inaugurated the Showroom.
Cyprus is a strategically important market for Armal. Thanks to a very successful business relationship for years , both managements have decided to ally their leadership and market competency and set up the second Showroom in Nicosia.

GRESON TOOLS LTD.
10 Ammochostou Avenue, 2102, Aglatzia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel. 00357 22 349082 - Fax. 00357 22 344130
greson(at)armal.biz - www.armal.biz

The distributor will be pleased to arrange your visit of the new Showroom and present the whole Armal product range which has been importantly increased by the last few months. We encourage you to speak to GRESON TOOLS LTD. for your next purchases, technical or sales related questions, assistance and instant supply of products.
You will soon see how you can simplify your efforts and reduce your costs to access our products, assembly and spare parts in any quantity and at any time. You will deal with responsive and experts sales people.

The company

Armal is a leading company in the production and supply of a vast range of high quality products, competently designed with superior professionalism and targeting portable toilet rental companies for the construction industry, the events and sports meetings management, agriculture, transport and the emergencies resulting from situations of crisis and environmental disasters.
Nowadays Armal benefits from many years of experience in the automated production of portable toilets and of the products essential for their maintenance. Armal has a reputation for being a highly technological innovator able to provide unique logistic solutions specially conceived for the portable toilet industry. Along with the new portable toilet TOP LINE, Armal offers products which can be customized to the client’s needs.
Armal conducts all its research and production development internally achieving high quality standards. Armal invests in human resources and counts on strongly motivated personnel in all its departments led by a creative management team with solid business principles.

Contacts

Armal Srl
Via Fiorentina 109 - 50052 Certaldo Firenze (Italy)
Tel. +39 0571 665 305
Fax +39 0571 651 260

www.armal.biz

Sylvia Cassarà
Sales Director
sylvia(at)armal.biz

Francesco Franza
Marketing & Sales Manager
franza(at)armal.biz

Shopping Bags by Zetatre

Zetatre Srl was born in 2006, in a very complex market. Despite this, Zetatre has quickly become leader in packaging products, thanks to a young team- up and coming and qualified- which has succeeded in fixing the assets of QUALITY, FLEXIBILITY AND SERVICE in the market.

Zetatre Srl manufactures paper carrier bags for shops and producers of shoes, clothes, jewellery, etc. We also supply polythene bags, tissue and wrapping papers, ribbons and boxes.
Our capacity and our presence all over Europe make us the ideal partner for both wholesalers and retailers.


URL: http://www.zetatre.com
http://www.shoppingphilosophy.com
e-mail: info@shoppingphilosophy.com
Phone: 0039.049.945.36.11
Fax: 0039.049.945.36.00

Ross Hotels: a new hotel company for Chianti and Tuscany

With the opportunity of the forthcoming opening of Palazzo San Lorenzo, a new, magnificent four-star hotel converted from an old palace in the historical center of Colle Val d'Elsa, the family Rossinelli decided to capitalize on its decade of experience in the field of hospitality by creating a new brand, the Ross Hotels Group.

The Adventure of the family Rossinelli in the hotel began in 1996 with the opening of the "Ultimo Mulino", a charming hotel in Gaiole in Chianti and continues in 2001 and 2005 with the openings of Palazzo Leopoldo and Palazzo San Niccolò, two structures of considerable charm, produced in buildings of great historical value in the heart of Radda in Chianti. The idea that push the family Rossinelli was to enter in the hospitality business with Chianti Hotels, offering suitable accommodations, respecting and reflecting the natural elegance of the territory and right to receive different types of tourists interested in visiting these areas.
The love of the family for the hospitality led in the short time the three structures to reach a wide reputation internationally, especially for the quality of hospitality and services, also testified by the consistently achieved top positions in web-sites become absolute reference points for travelers, as Tripadvisor.

Ross Hotels Group was established with the dual intention of becoming a reference point for people who look for relax, comfort and functionality in a Hotel Tuscany, and a guarantee of quality for all travelers who wish to live the Chianti in its highest intensity. The company does not offer a hospitality with generic standards of service, but the group exists thanks to the territory and the love for it, letting the guests know and live it every moment of his stay with extremely personalized services and treatments for each guest in order to offer to everyone the highest quality of hospitality.

The structure of Colle val d'Elsa fits perfectly in this project, with the careful renovation of a building of historical value in the heart of the fortified city and services designed for every need, including a spa of 420 sqm, with a location central to all the major points of attraction of Tuscany, including San Gimignano, Siena and Florence.

For more information:

Ross Hotels Group

Tel: +39 0577/738181
Fax: + 39 0577/738031
Web: www.rosshotels.com
E-Mail: info[at]rosshotels.com

Fltying to Tel Aviv by Eurofly

Israel, the charming state of Middle East. The capital Tel Aviv - a cosmopolitan city full of culture, amusements and Business - is a focus destination to discover the close East.

From the 17th of December, Eurofly - by Meridiana Group - flyes to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport from Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Verona Villafranca (Catullo) , offering five weekly departures: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from Milan, Wednesday from Rome and Thursday from Verona.

The rates start from 135 euros, one way, tax inclused and the connections will be operated by Airbus A320, with 180 economy class sits, all comfort inclused.

Meridiana-Eurofly: chocolate and discounts for flyers to Sicily

Meridiana-Eurofly offers to their flyers to Sicily, a tablet of Modica’s Chocolate and a 20% discount card that can be used in affiliated restaurants and stores. In fact, from the 30th of April until the 3th of May, you will have this great gift just showing the flight ticket to the Info Point of the “Chocobarocco at Modica” event.


The event, of which Meridiana-Eurofly is the official carrier, is organized by the Fine Chocolate Organization from Perugia, that collects the Italian chocolate masters to promote the Italian high-quality handcraft chocolate in Italy and abroad. The event aims to promote the Sicilian baroque art of Modica and its chocolate art proposing an agenda of roots for eno-gastronomy, tastings, expositions and museums.


Many are the chances to reach the Sicily by Meridiana-Eurofly flights, which land at Catania from Bologna, Florence, Lampedusa, Milan Linate, Rome Fiumicino, Turin and Verona; at Palermo from Bologna, Cagliari, Lampedusa, Milan Linate, New York, Pantelleria, Parigi, Rome Fiumicino, Trapani and Verona; at Lampedusa from Catania and Palermo; at Pantelleria from Palermo, Trapani and Verona.

Bijoux Collection 2009 - The Bright of Fashion

Moesi presents its new Spring/Summer 2009 Bijoux Collection which has been designed taking into account women's needs, moment by moment. The Bright of Fashion is the Collection designed for the elegant and sophisticated woman … it is the Collection designed for the sporty and casual woman … it is the glass design that adapts itself to everyday single moments.

Fifty new models designed to remark the little Great Moments of everyday life. Sets of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings, and also collars, long necklaces, necklaces with Charms as well as with central pendants, in pearls as well as in metal matched with Glass, or exclusively in Glass. Murano glass. These are only some of the proposals of  The Bright Of Fashion, the Bijoux Collection designed to accompany those important moments when the dominant theme is to search a strong visual impact…

as well as those simple moments of everyday life underlined with the harmony and niceness of a gesture, of an emotion.

"This Collection has been produced in close collaboration with our master glassmakers." – says Monica Pellizzari, Bijoux Designer for Bright Of Fashion - "Together with them we developed new pearls and pendants, giving life to original and modern necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings. The most elegant pearls have been forged with gold inside. We have exploited the transparency and reflections of glass skilfully combining them with dressy details, drawing inspiration from the geometric shapes more trendy with the needs of women".

The Bright Of Fashion Catalogue for Distributors and Dealers is available for free in PDF via the Accounter Area of Moesi.com. Overview at on-line Catologues.

Moesi is interior design items in glass design, ceramics design, contemporary decorative objects and bijoux accessories. Moesi proposes innovative items, result of the artisan care with which they have been made. The interior design objects and the jewels of the bijoux lines in Murano glass are the work of skilled craftsmen. Unique objects on account of refinement and elegance of the materials selected, entirely Made in Italy. Productions devoted to the sectors of interior design furnishings, gift items, wedding cadeaux and high-quality bijoux.

For more information:

Web www.moesi.com, www.moesi.it
Mail info [at] moesi.com
Tel No. +39.049.5565953
Fax No. +39.049.9217571

Sorrento luxury hotels: Grand Hotel Riveira

Between all Hotels in Sorrento, one of the most complete in quality of services and range of offers is Grand Hotel Riviera.

Placed in a strategic position that allows to have a private beach, with panoramic view on Naples and Sorrento gulf, and the possibility of additional services of renting and boat chater. Hotel Riviera, one of the most appreciated sorrento hotels, allow you to spend a relaxing holidays in Sorrento in contact with paesaggistic beauties.

The main feature of Hotel Riviera is the closeness both the beach and the centre of Sorrento : in fact it is just over 1 Km far from the main square, and it has the great advantage to be immersed in a wonderful and peaced place. This is demonstrated immediatenly when you arrive and admire the beautiful garden that makes an entrance for the structure.

And between all prerogative, Grand Hotel Riviera has the privilege to be one of the most searched Hotel for all weddings celebrated in Sorrento and Amalfi Coast, recognized all over Italy, and it attracts every year a mass of european and international tourists looking for an unforgettable holiday among the wonders of Italy. To get more info about special offers available for hotel visit website hotelriviera.com

Travel in Venice - Best web blogs

For travel in Venice visit this web blogs:

1. http://hot08ala.blog.com/
2. http://www.freeblog.org.uk/venice08ala/
3. http://hotala09.myblogsite.com/

Good luck!

Moto Guzzi Stelvio raid road trip through Tunisia

Stelvio RAID in Tunisia

Link: http://motoguzziworldclub.it/content/view/113/75/lang,en

Stelvio Raid is a successful Raid Road Trip through Tunisia, in a land with a continuous changing landscape. Over the last years many participants and enthusiasts run this raid and often it was their first time in Africa! 
An exciting runalong  Tunisian roads, from North to South, from the city of Tunis to the hairpin turnsof the mountain oasis of  Chebica, Tamerza and Mides. Then the arrival to Tozeur and to the long back straight going through and dividing Chott el Djerid lake. Then again on the move, on the asphalt strip between El Farouar, Sabria and Douz dunes. The bends and the bumps in Dahar Hills will follow us until Chenini and Tatauine,  before we reach the sea in front of Hammamet.
The raid is open to any motorbike, with passenger too, and is basically planned on the road, with the (optional) possibility of reaching off-road tracks with amazing panorama.

Info

Tunisia is a welcoming and safe country with stunning scenic drives and many ancient monuments. Spoken languages are Arabic and French in Tunisia, as well as Italian is in big cities and hotels. The national currency is the Tunisian dinar: 1 dinar = € 0.65 (you have to change your money locally when disembarking). Satellite GSM phones work almost everywhere in Tunisia. Your passport must have at least six months validity before travelling to Tunisia. National driving licences are valid. It may be advisable to have a certified photographic copy of your identity documents and make sure you have copies of papers that prove the bike is yours. Ensure that passports are up to date and valid before leaving. Tunisia is in the same time zone as Italy. On April temperature fluctuates between 10 degree during the night and 22/30 degrees during the day. 

Programme Timing

April 25 Meeting point: Genova Imbarchi Cotunav at 14:00 Boarding and cabin assignment. Dinner on board.
April 26 Breakfast and briefing, landing in Tunis, passengers customs and transfer to the enchanting Hammamet. Overnight stay in hotel.
April 27 Moving on to the South through villages and mountains, visit to Romans ruins at Sbeitla and overnight stay in hotel at Tozeur Oasis.
April 28 Riding over mountain roads towards Chebika and Tamerza, then crossing over on the Chott. Overnight stay in hotel in front of the dunes of Douz and the African sunset. 
April 29 Reaching Ksar Ghilane oasis, bathing in the warm spring or visiting to the huge palm grove, enjoying the sunset on the dunes, the dinner and.... the surprise overnight stay!
April 30 Back to northwards, at first along the mountains with stop off at Matmata to visit its troglodyte architecture, then in direction of Hammamet for a visit to the Roman amphitheatre of El Jem and finally back to the Hotel.
May 1 Complete tour in the city of Hammamet in the morning, with a visit to the beautiful and ancient Medina. Moving away in the direction of the port of Tunis where boarding at 16:00. Cabin assignment. Dinner and overnight stay on board.
May 2 Going ashore at Genoa at 13:00

Registration

Registration fee: Rider + Motorcycle; 1,400 Euro 
Entry fee Passenger: 1,300 Euro 
Maximum Number of Participants: 50 - Not less than 15

Registration fee includes: Round trip ticket in double bed cabin. Dinner, lunch, breakfast on-board. Overnight stay, dinner, breakfast in hotel (double bedroom). Packed lunches. Motorcycle maintenance support. Medical assistance. Full support services. Motorcycle escort. Europ Assistance Insurance.
Registration DOES NOT include: Fuel consumption (petrol costs about Euro 0, 70 per litre). Drinks. Anything not specified in the programme is to be considered as additional cost.

Insurance

Europ Assistance Multirischi Viaggi Nonstop is the multi-risk insurance policy covering the participants. It would be advisable to print the specific PDF form in order to examine it carefully. Other personal insurance policies can be taken out (optional). 

Wearing apparel

Technical wearing road apparel Don't forget your waterproof suit and the bumbag 
Normal clothing : A pair of long trousers and a pair of short ones T-shirts A fleece jumper or a strong sweatshirt A pair of very comfortable shoes A pair of slippers or sandals Bathing suit Underware

Motorcycle

Motorcycles must be in good order, according to the highway code and must be in perfect shape (the event promoter reserves the right to refuse to authorize the departure of any unsuitable motorcycle). Technical support staff can help both on the way and in the evening, for an emergency repair service. Insurance is mandatory as well as the green card valid for Tunisia (please check it). Please remember to hold in reserve your motorcycle and trunks keys. Motorcycles must be registered (test plates are not allowed). If the driver borrowed the motorcycle he must be given a written proxy bythe owner. Motorcycles will be stored in the hotel secure parking at night time. 

Vehicles

Van for your luggage transport (one single hand luggage per person; maximum size.80 x40x35 cm.) Four-wheel drive car

Staff

Motorcycle tour guide, technical crew, doctor

For further information please contact

 TuttoMoto Brescia - Mr. Bruno Birbes
TEL.: 030.305251 FAX.: 030.301228
www.tuttomotobrescia.it / info@tuttomotobrescia.it


Tom 42 - La Spezia (SP)
Tel +39 0187280483 - Fax +39 0187 520232

www.tom42.it / tonimerendino@tom42.it / gianluca@tom42.it

Offers Easter 2009 holidays in Sardinia Italy

Easter 2009 is coming, the lovely bridge that begin April 11 and ends on the day of Easter Monday, April 13, will be perfect and will enjoy the excellent climate that already in these days we are welcome in Italy.
The most popular destination in Italy is always Sardinia, for lovers of sea, sun and beaches.
During the weekend Easter events are many folk who can be found.
Easter is a deeply felt, in all the villages in the South of Sardinia, in particular, there are many events that recall the Passion of Christ.
In Cagliari for the Easter weekend you can not miss the Procession of the Mysteries, celebration beginning on Friday before Palm Sunday.
Since now you can book a low cost flight with Ryanair and EasyJet, which connect the airport of Cagliari with a lot of Italian airports truly exceptional prices.
We raccomanded a excellent hotel near Cagliari Airport: HOTEL FLAMINGO RESORT.
This is offer Easter 2009 Hotel Flamingo Resort: different packages offere starting with one night's stay until the package of three nights stay.

Your Holidays in Sardinia: Prices down by 20%

The Island of Sardinia with its stunning sandy beaches and the Kristal clear waters it has always been one of the favourite destinations of the Mediterranean sea. Over the past decades Sardinia's fame has grown mostly as a very expensive VIP hot spot.

Thanks to the Credit Crunch Sardinia is now much more approachable! You can fly there for as little as 40 gbp with Ryanair and Easyjet and if you want to come by car, both Tirrenia and Moby are offering free tickets for the car.

A self-catering accommodation it is still the best option especially if you are a small family or a group of friends. In this period, Explore Sardinia (Leading accommodation provider) is offering up to 20% discounts on Villas and apartments. You can roam around the offers visiting the website: www.exploresardinia.co.uk

"We realized that in order to meet the demands of the over 7500 clients that every year trust us with their holidays we needed to take into account the deep financial crisis that have hit us all. We have therefore decided to radically cut prices of our holiday Villas, in order to being able to put together a compelling offer that in some cases reaches £ 15 per person per night" says Erika Faggiano, Incoming Manager at Explore Sardinia.

Explore Sardinia RE is a Real Estate Company with a clear focus in Touristic properties . The company is registered with FIAIP and is the only Sardinian company registered with the Association of International Property Professionals (AIPP). Over 7500 clients choose us every year choosing between a Portfolio of over 1000 self-catering acomodation and property investments.

For more information:

Mrs Erika Faggiano
Incoming Manager
email: erika@exploresardinia.it
www.exploresardinia.it