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Posted on Jun 29, 2013 in Beach and coast, Villages | 0 comments

Villa Jovis on Capri: traces of Tiberius amidst untamed nature and terraces overlooking the sea

Villa Jovis on Capri: traces of Tiberius amidst untamed nature and terraces overlooking the sea

Sometime a certain individual’s character leaves an indelible mark not only through his life and works, but also in a more concrete and tangible manner. Take, for example, Emperor Tiberius. Ancient biographers describe the second emperor of the Julius-Claudius dynasty as an introvert, not inclined to lively social interactions, and even cruel: a rather sad and suspicious person. This is a decidedly negative perspective that does not consider his bravery in battle during his youth, carried out in the shadow of Caesar and Octavius, in which he proved to have a rare military talent. Augustus governed the empire from 14 to 37 A.D. and lived a rather reserved life, whose rule was resolute and peaceful. He decided, by nature of his upbringing and character, to stay away from courtly intrigues and gossip, and lived the last ten years of his reign on the island of Capri, governing the empire far from Rome, with all the risks this involved. We mentioned above that there are places where the heart and...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Museum: Historical Museum of the Venetian Age – The interactive Fifteenth century.

Bergamo Museum: Historical Museum of the Venetian Age – The interactive Fifteenth century.

An interactive and sensorial Bergamo Museum that mixes multimedial storytellings and offers the history of the city during the crucial century under the power of Venice, the socalled “La Serenissima”. We are talking about the Historical Museum of the Venetian Age set up in an area close to the lift which takes to the Torre del Campanone (Campanone Tower). Mixing knowledge and games, intellect and emotions, the visitor is inviteted in a trip through images and sounds along the Fifteenth century, the critical century in the history of Italy, Europe and the world. The past evidences – pictures, manuscripts, maps and documents – live again thanks to the new technologies and they become sensorial storytellings, showing a concept of an active society and involved into the great history. This Bergamo Museum, with seven interactive rooms that put in contact the public with the history of the city during the Fifteenth century, with people, places, activities and commerce, is a real jewel of the latest generation. Visiting hours From October to May:...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Bergamo Tourist Guide: Smartrippin is available, the app about Bergamo.

Bergamo Tourist Guide: Smartrippin is available, the app about Bergamo.

Tablet, iPad, iPhone and smartphone have become the travel mates of the tourists around the world. People who own them can’t help travelling without some app which help to find the treasures and the splendors of a city. Smartrippin has just been born: highly innovative Bergamo Tourist Guide. Image to be in front of a church, a palace, a monument, a place, an outlook and to use your smartphone as a personal multilingual tourist guide. You will be able to geo-localize you and your position, listen to the audio-guide, look at the pictures, share digital contents with other users, recall history and also to search for information about places around, where to go nearby for lunch, accomodation, customized and geo-localized tours,always updated information. Your visit will be more interesting and exciting, without bear the weight of guidebooks and paper maps. Try to search on Google “Bergamo Tourist Guide”: you will find Smartrippin, the first tourist app that helps you to visit Bergamo, its splendors, its tourist, artistic and wine...

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Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Lower Bergamo: a tour into the throbbing core of the city of Bergamo.

Lower Bergamo: a tour into the throbbing core of the city of Bergamo.

The center of Lower Bergamo, throbbing core of the commerce of the city, was planned by Marcello Piacentini. It extends across the area of the old fair of Sant’Alessandro and it start from the so called Sentierone: a bright tree-lined avenue flanked by porchs and stone cobbled, place of the city promenade. In front of the Sentierone there is the Donizetti theater, one of the most charming theater in Italy. Before start to walk along Via XX Settembre, the center of shopping, a tour in the near Via Torquato Tasso is reccomended. This street starts near the church of San Bartolomeo which si famous beacuse there is an opera called Pala Martinengo painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1516 inside it. At the end of Via Tasso there is Piazzetta Santo Spirito. The church of Santo Spirito, in the square of the same name, shows ten chapels on the side of its only-one nave. Some of them guards artworks of considerable value, as a polyptich by Bergognone and a picture...

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