Travel to Germany: the beatiful Hamburg

Hamburg is the capital of the Hanseatic League which united the northern merchant towns is a beautiful, wide town, half of which consists of parks and canals and accounts nowadays as the third touristic destination in Germany. Why? Because Hamburg it is a elegant destinations that offer to the travelers many hotels, bed and breakfast, full of art and history, only some 100 kilometers from the northern sea. Over 2000 bridges cross  the Elba river and  some 65 kilometers of piers accompany the river, over 100 consulates are present in the town, no other town in the world equals this record.

If some years ago the exciting aspect of Hamburg was represented the ‘red lights district’ of St Pauli, the town. State of Hamburg (Land)  offers today not only theatres, but also galleries and museums, many attractions and you can find several Hamburg hotels. Main characteristic of the town are the town lakes called Aussenalster and Binnenalster together with the cathedral of St Jacobi and the baroc church of St Michael., the fishmarket and the special  district of Speicherstadt.

Although the main activity is still the harbour (the second in Euroipe after Rotterdam and the first in Germany) it is one of the most interesting towns in Germany and certainly worth a visit. For your next travel in Hamburg it’s better book in advance a hotel in Hamburg.

Holidays for pets

The tailor-made demand for pet holidays is constantly growing all over the world. There are travel packages including your four legged friends and organizations that allow you to leave your pet at a neighbours’ care, farm houses and hotels specialized in animals’ hospitality, guest houses for pets and full time dog sitters.

Summer is coming and people are getting more and more worried about their pet’s holidays. But the number of solutions is growing day by day.

On the web for instance, prontohotel.com allows you to choose hotels all over the world knowing easily and in advance if your pet will be welcome and if it could spend the whole summer time with you.

An Archeological Jewel South of Naples: Paestum!

During our short holiday in Campania we could not miss this precious jewel named Paestum well known for its spectacular Doric temples. According to the legend these temples where built by the Argonauts, but history says that Paestum was founded in the VII century b.C. by the inhabitants of Sibari. Its first name was Poseidonia and it soon became a flourishing business centre of the Mediterranean sea. The archeological park consists of three Doric temples built in the V century b.C. facing the sea and are really well preserved: the Temple of Neptune, the Basilica and the Temple of Cerere. The almost 5 kilometers circuit of fortified walls is amongst the best preserved of all the Magna Graecia. If you happen to be there in Summer, don’t miss a night visit to the area, maybe after having tasted a delicious buffalo mozzarella.

In the whale belly

Coming through the Leviathan’s entrance, a narrow boat long 22 metres, you can’t avoid to think to Giona and the white whale belly or to Antoni Gaudi’s Battlò house in Barcelona. The boat Leviathan has been built by Mr. Simon Birtwistle and his partner Al Acaster, but they said not to have kept in contact with their Spanish colleague. When they bought the boat, it was used to carry coal and was very run-down. They have chosen a tradition design for the external parts and to create a real house in the interiors spaces. You can often see the Leviathan sailing the Kenneth and Avon Canal, famous water-way the cross Somerset Country, in the South of England.

Borghese gallery. A monographic exhibition of Correggio Paintings dealing about antique

Attending exhibitions can be the right way to discover some wonderful museums, like Borghese gallery in Rome, Piazzale Scipione Borghese, 5, from 22 of May 08 to 14 of September 08.

Twentyfive Correggio’s masterpieces are shown in Rome at Borghese gallery with astonish news: for the first time you can see Correggio’s mythological painting all together. There is the “Jupiter loves” collection, four creations drawing love scenes inspired to Ovidio’s Metamorphosis, ordered to Coreggio by Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. These paintings had been conceived like a whole piece of art but it was shared in four different paintings when donated to Charles V, King of Spain. Borghese gallery already own “Danae” painting; “Leda” has arrived from Berlin Gemäldegalerie, “Io and Ganimede” from Wien Kunsthistorisches. Other Correggio’s masterpieces will be exposed with Love series: “Educazione di Amore” has arrived from London National Gallery and “Venere e Cupido con un Satiro” from Paris Louvre.

Correggio exhibition is a part of Borghese gallery program that schedules a Francis Bacon’s and Caravaggio’s paintings exhibition in 2009; a Dosso Dossi’s in 2010, a Tiziano’s one in 2011, a Cranach’s in 2012, a Bernini’s in 2013, a Domenichino’s in 2014 and the big last one in 2015 dealing about Borghese’s family and its relationship with ancient times.

The exhibition is open every day but Monday from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm.
Mandatory reservation

€ 10,50 Full price (reservation fee included)

€ 7,25 (reservation fee included) Reduced for European citizens aged between 18 and 25 years old and European full-time school teachers.