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Caffè Quadri (Italian pronunciation: [kafˌfɛ kˈkwaːdri]) is a coffeehouse located in the Procuratie Vecchie of Piazza San Marco, Venice. [1] It was established in 1775. The restaurant underwent a first important renovation in 1830, under the management of the Vaerini brothers, who expanded both the spaces and the activities, purchasing the ...
Venetian cuisine, from the city of Venice, Italy, [1] or more widely from the region of Veneto, has a centuries-long history and differs significantly from other cuisines of northern Italy (notably Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol), and of neighbouring Austria and of Slavic countries (notably Slovenia and Croatia ...
Piazza San Marco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjattsa san ˈmarko]; Venetian: Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
Harry's Bar Rome is a historic bar and restaurant located on the Via Veneto in Rome, Italy. It gained international fame when it was featured in La Dolce Vita, a film by Federico Fellini. Today, it operates as a bar and restaurant and attracts an upscale Roman and international crowd. [1] [2]
Solo Per Due is an Italian restaurant that claims to be the smallest restaurant in the world. It was founded in 1989 by Remo Di Claudio on the former estate of the poet Horace, near Vacone, Italy. As suggested by its name, Just for Two in English, the restaurant seats two people at a single table in a room measuring 400 square feet (37 m 2) in ...
Harry's Bar has long been frequented by famous people, and it was a favourite of Ernest Hemingway.Other notable customers have included Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, inventor Guglielmo Marconi, Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Maria Callas, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece ...
Opened in 1981 by Erminio Alajmo and his wife Rita Chimetto, [3] the restaurant gained its first Michelin star in 1992 with Chimetto as chef de cuisine. [4] Their son, Massimiliano Alajmo, took over the restaurant in 1994, [5] and only two years later in December 1996, the restaurant gained its second star and the then 22-year-old Alajmo became the youngest chef with two Michelin stars.
The Scrovegni Chapel (Italian: Cappella degli Scrovegni [kapˈpɛlla deʎʎi skroˈveɲɲi]), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The chapel and monastery are now part of the complex of the Musei Civici di Padova.