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The Venice Giardini or Giardini della Biennale is an area of parkland in the historic city of Venice which hosts the Venice Biennale Art Festival, a major part of the city's cultural Biennale.
Italian insurer Generali spent some 3 million euros ($3.5 million) to renovate the Royal Gardens adjacent to St. Mark’s Square, and will receive a tax write-off of 65% over the next three years ...
Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli ("Indro Montanelli Public Gardens"), formerly known as Giardini Pubblici and Giardini di Porta Venezia (and renamed after journalist and writer Indro Montanelli in 2002) are a major and historic city park in Milan, Italy, located in the Porta Venezia district, north-east of the city center, in the Zone 1 administrative division.
It shelters a large complex with two inner courts and acres of gardens, stables, and a garden maze. The largest room is the ballroom, where the 18th-century painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo frescoed the two-storey ceiling with a massive allegorical depiction of the Apotheosis or Glory of the Pisani family (painted 1760–1762). [ 2 ]
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The name Porta Venezia is commonly used to refer both to the gate proper and to the surrounding district , part of the Zone 3 of Milan. The Porta Venezia area is known today as the LGBT-friendly district of Milan: Via Lecco and its surroundings are Milan's "Gay Street" with LGBT or LGBT-themed bars and restaurants.
The grand suites on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which travels through Italy and Western Europe, have 24-hour butler service and marble en-suite bathrooms.. Guests occupying these suites are ...
The gardens were established by Sir Thomas Hanbury on a small, steep peninsula jutting southwards from an altitude of 103 meters down into the Mediterranean Sea.He purchased the extant Palazzo Orengo property in 1867, and over decades created the garden with the aid of pharmacologist Daniel Hanbury (his brother), the botanist and landscape designer Ludwig Winter, and scientists including ...