Weekend in Italy

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan has opened reservations for December today! Don’t miss the unique oportunity to visit one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of art, located in the refectory of the 15th century Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, so highly requested that tickets are already getting sold out.

In Florence, LAST CHANCE to visit the Vasari Corridor. The corridor will be closed from the end of this year a major restoration work scheduled to last about 3 years. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to view Florence and its artistic pleasures on this exclusive aerial way, thought to allow the granduques to move in safety without escorts, from their private residence to the government palace, and was a prestigious reason for the Medici. It contains now a collection of portraits and important collections of paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries.

In addition, Florence state museums will be opening the 2010 reservations next Monday November 16th. Please remember early booking avoids you finding sold out dates and gives you higher chances of getting the exact time you wish, so you can perfectly program your schedule while in Italy. State museums include the Uffizi and the Accademia Galleries, and Palazzo Pitti with all its galleries and gardens.

The whole Milan and surroundings is in a fermen: the end of January brings back the great Italian and International concerts, from Italian music to jazz, passing through clavicembalo concerts.

At Teatro Condominio Vittorio Gassman in Gallarate, in Varese, is in program the concert of two great artists of Italian Jazz music: Enrico Rava playing the trumpet and Stefano Bollani playing the piano. Both musicians collaborate from many years, in live exhibitions and records: following the “The Third Man” success getting the nomination as Best Jazz Album on 2008, January 2009 has just released the new CD “New York Days”, recorded in New York together with Paul Motian, Larry Grenadier and Mark Turner. This Rava and Bollani’s concert in Gallarate is already a success.

Enrico Rava does not need to be introduced: he has been one of the most famous jazz players since the 60’s, not only in Italy but in Europe too.

His ideal pupil Stefano Bollani, after cooperating with important Italian pop artists (Raf, Irene Grandi, Jovanotti) has asserted himself as a poliedric artist and jazz protagonist. Defined on 1998 the best revelation talent alternates irony and artistic capacity in his performances.

The duet Rava Bollani gives lots of emotions each time for live music lovers.

Enrico Rava and Stefano Bollani concert: purchase now the tickets online>>
March 20th 2009, 9 pm

Tickets still available for the Rava - Bollani concert: poltronissima, poltrona, galleria.
Price: from 26 euros.

If you are planning a weekend in Milan to see the Christmas markets, and doing some Christmas shopping, don’t miss the exhibition that will end immediately after the holidays.

We are talking about “Da Canaletto a Tiepolo“, the exhibition that, hosted in Palazzo Reale in Piazza Duomo, displays a selection of art works from a large and extraordinary private collection: Angelo Guido Terruzzi’s.

The exhibition, open until the beginning of January, celebrates the Venetian painting from the 18th Century. Together with paintings by Tiepolo (2 rooms), Canaletto (5 works), Marco Ricci, Francesco Zuccarelli, Gaspar van Wittel among others, some valuable furniture and porcelains from the same period.

It is also available a beautiful catalog of the exhibition.

Palazzo Reale Piazza Duomo 12, Milano Opening hours:

Monday 14.30 – 19.30
From Tuesday to Sunday 9.30-19.30
Thursday 9.30 – 22.30
Children until 5 years old, free entrance; from 6 to 14 years old reduced price ticket.

To purchase online tickets for the Tiepolo and Canaletto exhibition >>