THINGS TO SEE IN PISTOIA: ITALY’S CAPITAL OF CULTURE FOR 2017.

Friday May 20th, 2016 , Cities of Art

Things to see in Pistoia. Detail of Baptistery of San Giovanni in Corte.

Things to see in Pistoia: Italy’s Capital of Culture for 2017.

Things to see in Pistoia. The 2016 Italian Capital of Culture is Mantua, a Renaissance masterwork, but Pistoia will be Italy’s Capital of Culture for 2017. And the city is ready to be discovered.

I talked about my journey to Mantua and things you must see in the homeland of the Gonzaga family. In 2017 I will talk about Pistoia, its Romanesque and Renaissance monuments, its museums, and its villas.

The Guggenheim Museum in Venice: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Wednesday May 18th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN VENICE: THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION

Guggenheim Venice. In 1948 Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her art collection at the first Venice Biennale arranged after World War II.
Cubist, Abstract, and Surrealist artworks, and works by contemporary artists such as Pollock and Mark Rothko were exhibited for the first time in Europe, and made the pavilion the most coherent survey of Modernism yet to have been presented in Italy.

That art collection arrived in Venice and it wouldn’t come back, because in the meantime Peggy decided she had enough of New York and it was time to go back to Europe.

RAVENNA AND SURROUNDINGS: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES, DANTE ALIGHIERI AND A LANDSCAPE FOR POETS

Saturday May 14th, 2016 , Cities of Art

Ravenna and surroundings: 8 Unesco world heritage sites, Dante Alighieri and a landscapes for poets.

Ravenna and surroundings. Ravenna and its province can be considered to be a real open-air museum.
In Ravenna there are 8 UNESCO World Heritage sites, Dante’s tomb, and precious mosaics. Ravenna and its surroundings offer a heritage and a landscape you should visit slowly.

It’s the perfect place for curious travellers.

The Louvre Museum: brief history of a museum

Thursday May 12th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

Things to know about the Louvre Museum

Louvre Museum. The Louvre Museum is the most important museum in Europe and the most visited in the world (you can find it in the list of the most visited museums in the world in 2015).
A week wouldn’t be enough to visit the whole museum, so if you go to Paris I’ll suggest that you should dedicate a whole day to visit this museum.

However, before entering, it could be useful to know the history of this extraordinary and huge museum.

Most visited museums in the world in 2015

Wednesday May 11th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

MOST VISITED MUSEUMS

List of the most visited museums in the world and in Italy in 2015

Most visited museums. The list of 10 most visited museums in the world has arrived on time even this year.
The ninth annual edition of the list compiled by il Giornale dell’arte and The Art Newspaper shows a crisis in European cultural tourism, but especially shows the crisis in those museums located in areas where political instability or terrorism risk threaten tourism.

READ ALSO: the list of 10 most visited museums in the world in 2014.

However, in this not too positive situation, it’s time for Italy to reach the top end of the table with a 6% increase in visitors.
There isn’t any Italian museum in the 2015 top ten, but maybe in 2016 there will be a surprise : )