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Rome will be hosting Formula 1 race

In 2013 there will be a Formula 1 Grand Prix on the streets of Rome. Confirmed by Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone. This added race to the calendar will come as it increases in size once again, to 20 races.

This year there are 19 Grands Prix – the highest amount in one seasonsince [...]

Eva e il pennello proibito

Eva e il pennello proibito – l’arte di essera donna, or Eve and the prohibited brush – The art of being a woman in English is a exhibition that opened this past weekend in Pisa, at the Castle of the Vicars of Lari – an exhibition entirely dedicated to female creativity.
This is a [...]

Boldini and the Italians in Paris

Chiostro del Bramante in Rome – behind Piazza Navona – usually holds a grand exhibition each winter season. This years exhibition is dedicated to the painter Giovanni Boldini and the Italian artists who lived in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century.
During the late nineteenth century, France was to lead the way in contemporary [...]

Masterpieces of Futurism in Venice

On February 20, 1909 the French magazine Le Figaro published the Manifesto of Futurism by the ‘jeune poète italien’ Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, which was to forever was to change art scene.
If going to Venice now, you still have a chance to see the big exhibition “Masterpieces of Futurism” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
The exhibition includes, [...]

L’Età della Conquista. Il fascino dell’arte greca a Roma

The Romans took a lot from the Greeks and developed into their own. Especially in art. A new exhibition at the Musei Capitolini offers you an unique collection of Greek art from early Roman days.
The works comes from one of the most significant eras for the development of all western art: the period following the [...]

Eva e il pennello proibito

Eva e il pennello proibito – l’arte di essera donna, or Eve and the prohibited brush – The art of being a woman in English is a exhibition that opened this past weekend in Pisa, at the Castle of the Vicars of Lari – an exhibition entirely dedicated to female creativity.
This is a [...]

The Last Supper

One of the most famous paintings in the world is surely The Last Supper, painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1494 to 1497. This wall painting, which can be seen in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. This fantastic painting has ‘been restored a decade ago

Alfa Miniguide – Vatican -

Vatican day
Start by visiting the biggest church in the world S.t Peter’s Basilica, and, if you want, climb the dome to get a full panorama view of the city. When done in the basilica, have lunch and then do the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. Best time to visit this part is in [...]