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☆ Rome Finally Gets the Modern Hotels It Deserves
  + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Laura May Todd | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The first city hotel from a company better known for its beach resort and spas, Six Senses Rome opened last spring in a historic palazzo on Piazza San Marcello, a short walk from the Pantheon. The Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola oversaw the design, keeping the graceful lines of the original structure while transforming it into a light-drenched contemporary retreat. She housed the reception and lobby bar in a glass-topped atrium, filling the space with giant potted plants. In one section of the lobby, glass flooring reveals a glimpse of an ancient subterranean baptismal pool that belongs to the neighboring church. Then there’s the spa, in many ways the centerpiece of the hotel.
Persons: Patricia Urquiola, Urquiola Locations: Piazza San, Spanish, hammam
☆ 36 Hours in Turin, Italy
  + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Seth Sherwood | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
11 a.m. Find yourself in the center of historyA panorama of Turin history unfolds around Piazza San Giovanni, a central square. To the north, see the Porta Palatina, a red-brick Roman-era gate to the city. To the east, and down some stairs, the ruins of a Roman amphitheater (free admission) hide in the shadow of the Galleria Sabauda (€15), a Neoclassical museum that houses art collected by the dukes and kings of the House of Savoy, a historic royal dynasty. Next to the museum, the tall bell tower of the Renaissance-era Cathedral of St. John the Baptist soars over the unattached main building, whose chapel holds the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot cloth bearing the faint image of a bearded man that some believe to be Jesus Christ. The cloth is not displayed to the public, but the Museum of the Shroud (€8), a short walk away, explains its history and some of the scientific studies done to determine its origins.
Persons: Piazza, of Savoy, John the, Jesus Christ Organizations: Piazza San Giovanni, of Locations: Turin, Piazza San, St, of Turin
☆ A beginner's guide to investing in art — that won't break the bank
  + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +10 min
Will Ramsay, founder and CEO of the Affordable Art Fair, which puts on exhibits worldwide, said collecting art is easier than people might think. However, contemporary art is likely to increase in value over the long term, Diament said. There's also a satisfaction in buying something from a living artist, Diament said. "Some people like color, other people like to focus on drawings without color … you have people who collect just one artist," Taylor said. Provenance — which refers to the history and ownership of a piece — is often an important consideration when buying art.
Persons: Nicholas Bowlby, Puja Bhatia, You've, Karen Taylor, Taylor, Maria Artool, Will Ramsay, Robert Diament, Diament, you'll, Tracey Emin, Carlotta Cardana, There's, Knight Frank, Knight, Ramsay, Eileen Agar, Jeff Spicer, George Romney, Voltaire, Magda Archer, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Carl Freedman, Benjamin Senior, Richard Parkes Bonington, Judith Burrows, he'd, It's, Artool, Isabelle Paagman, Sotheby's, Paagman, Shepard Fairey Organizations: CNBC, Fair, of, Bloomberg, Getty, Knight, Investment, Art Market Research, Whitechapel Gallery, Art, San, Wallace Locations: London, U.K, British, Austin, Berlin, Brisbane, Latvian, Britain, Venice, American, Europe, Italy, Paris, France
☆ Venice Minus the Mobs: A Traveler’s Guide to Its Quiet (Even Empty) Corners
  + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | Photographs Arianna Lago For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
IN SUMMERTIME, on days so sweltering that the cobblestones themselves seem to sweat, it is almost impossible to walk from Venice’s Rialto Bridge to the Piazza San Marco along the main roads. The surge of day-trippers clog the central pathways. A tourist struggling to haul a suitcase over a bridge is enough to bring a hundred people to a standstill. A 10-minute stroll—by map directions—can take half an hour or more. It’s the Venice so often described, and fairly decried, as a tourist trap: an on-rails carnival, less a city than a conglomeration of souvenir shops.
Organizations: Piazza San Marco Locations: Venice
☆ Venice kept dry as dam system wards off exceptional high tide
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] A view of St. Mark's Square during exceptional high tide as the flood barriers known as Mose are raised, in Venice, Italy, November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Manuel SilvestriVENICE, Italy, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A dam system built to protect Venice and its famous Piazza San Marco from flooding withstood the challenge of an exceptionally high tide on Tuesday as heavy rains swept across Italy. However, the Mose, a system of 78 flood gates rising from the Venetian lagoon floor, was activated in advance overnight, shielding the city from the high waters seen at sea. "If the Mose barriers had not been there, Venice would have been catastrophically under water," Italy's Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said. High tides are expected to last well into Wednesday and Thursday, with a tide of up to 140 cm forecast for both days.
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