NOTES IN MASK – CARNIVAL CONCERT AT VILLA VALMARANA AI NANI

Villa Valmarana ai Nani in Vicenza consists of three buildings located in a large park. The Palazzina (1669), the Foresteria and the Scuderia (1720) are surrounded by rose gardens, an Italian garden with a scenic backdrop and a well, and a hornbeam.
The Palazzina and the Foresteria are frescoed by Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, called in 1757 by the owner, Giustino Valmarana. The Villa takes its name from the statues of the 17 stone dwarves, once scattered in the garden, now arranged on the wall surrounding the property. The suggestive legend of Princess Layana is linked to them. It is assumed that the real executor of the Dwarves is Francesco Uliaco and the inspirer Giandomenico Tiepolo.
Sunday 27 February 2022 Villa Valmarana ai Nani will be colored with sounds, images and delicacies to celebrate the first Carnival concert in collaboration with Be Ancient Be Cool.
Two hours of fascinating Baroque, Vicentine and Venetian music, a good glass of wine and a pleasant guided tour of the frescoed rooms of the Palazzina della Villa.
For the occasion, the trio Oblivion Soave will perform, with a soprano accompanied by archlute and baroque cello, a selection of Canzoni da Battello, a repertoire performed by Venetian gondoliers in the first half of the eighteenth century, famous for being burlesque, ironic It is funny.
At the end of the concert, everyone present will be offered a glass of wine or fruit juice, for the little ones, accompanied by biscuits from the confectionery firm Loison.
The event will end with a guided tour of the building, frescoed in the mid-1700s by Giambattista Tiepolo and his son Giandomenico.
For tickets, please visit the website: https://www.villavalmarana.com/it/carnevale
The villa can be reached from the center of Vicenza and from the Relais Santa Corona in about 15 minutes on foot.

CARNIVAL 2022

Vicenza can be the perfect destination in Veneto to reach Venice in one day in just 50 minutes by train: our Relais Santa Corona is only a few minutes’ walk from the station. The 2022 “Remenber the future” carnival includes various events in the city until March 1st; it will be a multidimensional event, in which the physicality of the traditional event in presence is integrated with the virtual part, using technology to involve the whole audience of the Carnival, including those who want to participate remotely, from all over the world. The Artistic Direction is by Massimo Checchetto, set designer of the La Fenice Theater.

“Remember the Future” is the title chosen for this edition, and is inspired by a quote from Salvador Dalì: And most of all I remember the future.

“Walking through Venice, although with a specific destination, one is forced to constantly change direction, the calli end in a turning; behind a turning point a surprise, often a wonder, almost always a future. For the theme of this year’s Venice Carnival I thought about our future, that future that this city full of past unleashes in those who live it. Just a place in constant contradiction, where dreams and reality merge ”- declares Massimo Checchetto.

Carnival is a surreal game, beyond logic. Remembering the future seems like a paradox, but precisely this responds to the most authentic spirit of Carnival: a subversion of meaning that allows you to ‘open up’ the mind and open up possible unexpected scenarios. An introspective and creative journey that everyone can undertake to discover the most hidden desires and the most secret aspects of their personality. With the freedom of anonymity, because today, behind a mask, another mask is hidden.

To be updated on all the events visit the official website: https://www.carnevale.venezia.it/

Vicenza: a widespread museum

Six works by Maestro Andrea Roggi will embellish Vicenza from 28 January to 22 August 2022 on the occasion of the exhibition “Terra Mater | Earth and Heaven ”which anticipates VIOFFGoldenGreen, scheduled from 16 to 20 March 2022.
The exhibition is proposed as a path of aesthetic and intellectual contemplation around the themes that inspire the poetics of the renowned Tuscan artist: the relationship with nature combined with the personal one with one’s own cultural roots, as well as the relationship between the individual and time, related to the protagonist. Undisputed initiative: Mother Earth.
The exhibition locations that will design an evocative artistic and cultural path are:

  • piazza dei Signori,
  • la Loggia del Capitaniato,
  • piazza delle Erbe,
  • piazzale Alcide De Gasperi,
  • piazza San Lorenzo

Our Relais Santa Corona is very close to all the locations, reachable within a few minutes on foot.

For more informations:

https://www.vicenzatoday.it/eventi/opere-arte-centro-storico-di-vicenza.html

http://www.andrearoggi.it/

Vicenza, the perfect base to visit Padua

It is the heart and historical seat of the University, which has been housed there since the end of the fifteenth century. It has the world’s first stable anatomical theater, completed in 1595: it is the world’s first example of a permanent structure created for teaching anatomy through the dissection of cadavers. This technique, which evolved hand in hand with the development of medical science, became recurrent in the fifteenth century: the documents of the time testify to the widespread construction of temporary structures, which were assembled and disassembled when necessary, in which the anatomists kept their lessons and performed the interventions. Their shape resembled that of the Roman amphitheaters. The bodies for autopsies were delivered to the University by the judicial authorities: they were often, but not always, executed. For more info visit the website https://www.unipd.it/teatro-anatomico

Vicenza and our Relais Santa Corona are the ideal starting points for visiting the Veneto, Padua is only 15 minutes away by fast regional train!

Vicenza and our Relais Santa Corona are the ideal starting points for visiting the Veneto, Padua is only 15 minutes away by fast regional train!

Il Teatro anatomico di Padova: il più antico nel suo genere - OUBLIETTE  MAGAZINE

Corona Virus

Causa Coronavirus il Relais Santa Corona adotta le seguenti norme al fine di evitare qualsiasi contatto e mettere in sicurezza gli ospiti e gli operatori:

il check-in verrà fatto o in presenza del personale o in autonomia dall’ospite a seconda della preferenza, con prelievo della chiave elettronica da una cassetta di sicurezza posta nell’androne e accessibile nelle 24 ore. Il documento verrà richiesto al momento della prenotazione così come la carta di credito a garanzia.

Al check-out l’ospite potrà lasciare la chiave in camera ed uscire in completa autonomia.

Per maggiore sicurezza le chiavi magnetiche, i telecomandi, le pulsantiere verranno protette da pellicole monouso o sempre sanificate adeguatamente.

Le stanze vengono occupate solo se rimaste inutilizzate ed arieggiate almeno 3 giorni, il giorno prima dell’arrivo dell’sopite vengono preparate e sanificate.

 

Due to Coronavirus, the Relais Santa Corona adopts the following rules in order to avoid any contact and make guests and operators safe.

The check-in will be done in the present of the staff or independently by the guest depending oon the preference with the collection of the electronic key from a safe located in the entrance hall and accessible within 24 hours. The document will be requested at the time of booking as well as the credit card as guarantee.

Upon check-out, the guest can leave the key in the room and exit independently.

For greater safety, magnetic keys, remote controls and push-button panels will be protected by disposable films or sanitize after use.

The rooms are occupied only if they have been left unused and aired for at least 3 days, the day before the arrival of the guest they are prepared and sanitized.

PORTRAIT OF WOMAN new exhibition – Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza

“Portrait of a woman. The dream of the Twenties and the look of Ubaldo Oppi”.

From 6 December 2019 to 13 April 2020, the Municipality of Vicenza will inaugurate the first of a series of 3 exhibitions planned over the next few years in the beautiful setting of the Palladian Basilica. The exhibition is curated by Stefania Portinari, researcher of contemporary art stories at the Cà Foscari University of Venice. As the title suggests, the theme will be given by the painter Ubaldo Oppi, from Vicenza by adoption (in reality he was born in Bologna in 1889). But not only Oppi: Klimt, Picasso, Modigliani, Sironi and Casorati are other artists who came into contact with Oppi, whose works can be admired in an unprecedented narration of a controversial era, the 1920s, in which many changes contribute to creating modernity, through an evolution of social roles, taste and art. The main protagonists of these changes are women and this exhibition is dedicated to them in particular. Images of great charm (about a hundred works on display, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, dresses and jewels) that will win over the visitors of the exhibition in an unpublished tale of the modernity of the Twenties, represented by the icons of Ubaldo Oppi’s women. Our Relais Santa Corona is the ideal point to discover our beautiful city of Vicenza and its center.

Sacred and beauty in Russian art, exhibition at Palazzo Leoni Montanari in Vicenza

Until 26 January 2020, in the Baroque setting of the splendid Palazzo Leoni Montanari, next to our Relais Santa Corona, the exhibition “Kandinskij, Gončarova, Chagall. Sacred and beauty in Russian art” will be held.

The masterpieces of Russian artists are around 45 and interact with the precious collection of icons of Intesa San Paolo. A series of works, many of which have never been seen in Italy, mostly from the main museum of Russian art in Moscow, the Tretyakov Gallery, and also from the museums of Yaroslavl, Astrakhan, from the MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art ) And the Bakhrushin Museum of Performing Arts in Moscow, as well as the Musée Natiònal Marc Chagall in Nice and the Museum of Modern Art Costakis collection in Thessaloniki.

The Russian art world renews its interest in icons in the 20th century, even though by the 1800s many artists had shown interest in this kind of sacred art, but it is with the avant-gardes that the apotheosis is noted. For the Russian people – as Kandinsky constantly repeats – beauty is a sort of inner necessity that comes from experiencing, in everyday life (byt), even the invisible (nevidimoe).

Visiting the museum is an opportunity to learn more about Vicenza and all its surrounding beauties!

For info on entry methods and tickets, please consult the website https://www.gallerieditalia.com/it/vicenza/mostra-kandinskij-goncarova-chagall/

The great success of the Budapest Orchestra and Vicenza Opera Festival

The second edition of the Vicenza Opera Festival, strongly backed by the Società del Quartetto, Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico, in collaboration with the Budapest Orchestra conducted by maestro Ivàn Fischer who founded it in 1983 and made it over the years, thanks to the approach innovative, one of the most important in the world.

The program included three performances of the opera “La favola di Orfeo” written by Claudio Monteverdi and a concert with music by Haydn, Handel and Mozart.

The protagonists of the work were guests at our Relais Santa Corona: VALERIO CONTALDO interpreted Orfeo, EMŐKE BARÁTH Euridice, MICHAL CZERNIAWSKI the first pastor.

For more information, please visit https://vicenzaoperafestival.com

VILLA LA ROTONDA TOUR IN VICENZA BY NIGHT

New appointment with guided tours held by the Vicenza guides, Saturday 28 September at 6.15 pm to discover the most famous Palladian villa, the Rotonda.

The garden, the noble floor and also for the occasion the ground floor and kitchens, usually closed, will be visited. True stories, chronicles of the villa and of the Vicenza society of the time.

A visit to the villa is an excellent opportunity to discover the city of Vicenza, a UNESCO heritage site.

For reservations, please write to our reception of our Relais Santa Corona at info@relaissantacorona.it

http://www.villalarotonda.it/it/homepage.htm

The Villa:

Villa Almerico Capra called La Rotonda (also known as Villa Capra Valmarana) is a Venetian villa with a central layout located near the city of Vicenza, not far from the road of the Riviera Berica. Built by Paolo Almerico, who commissioned it from Andrea Palladio in 1566-1567, it was completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi in 1605 for the two Capra brothers, who had acquired the building in 1591.

La Rotonda, as it later became known, is one of the most famous and imitated buildings in the history of modern architecture; it is undoubtedly the most famous villa of Palladio and, probably, of all the Venetian villas. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1994.

MEDIOEVAL TOWER IN PIAZZA CASTELLO – VICENZA CENTRE

Located in Piazza Castello in the heart of the historic center of Vicenza, a stone’s throw from our Relais Santa Corona, the tower has undergone recent restoration work and will host temporary contemporary art exhibitions. The first exhibition, which will present a series of unpublished works, including paintings and drawings by Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy, specially designed for the Torrione spaces, represents the possibility of approaching the work of two key figures in the international painting scene of the last decades. Their experience is strongly linked to the city of Leipzig, where, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 2000s, a figurative language was formed which formed an important school of painting (the Leipzig school, in fact) that involved several generations of German artists. The current exhibition will end on 08/31/19.

https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/vicenza/politica/18_gennaio_04/torrione-apre-gratis-186-scalini-vedere-citta-quasi-inedita-40ebd8ee-f140-11e7-ab7e-62c7abcefb56.shtml