The five-star hotel has an enormous wine cellar and a decanter-shaped swimming pool.
After a dessert of Chantilly cream and rhubarb, we stumbled out, feeling stouter but regretting we'd come midday: an enormous wine cellar and a generous cocktail and beer menu make Againn a popular happy hour and dinner destination.
Mr. Martinoty respects current trends in emphasizing the opera's dark side — Hans Schavernoch's sets include an enormous wine cellar where much of the action takes place — but leavens it with occasional humor, especially in the Epilogue when, as the dust settles following Giovanni's demise, a statue of the rake can be made out on the urban horizon.
With its rustic brick walls, mysterious winding passages and mod burlesque theme, Micca Club, which was once an enormous wine cellar in its former life, is sure to impress trendy artist types.
Mr. Warner added an enormous terrace, a 4,000-bottle 4,000-bottleand a lot of buzz by redoing the Stonehouse restaurant (900 San Ysidro Lane; 800-368-6788; winesanysidrorancellar/dine1.cfm).
THE DETAILS: More than 40 different types of marble were used; the wine cellar holds 20,000 bottles; an enormous iron chandelier next to the library took two years to make.
The palace, which was built of wood, was destroyed by a succession of violent explosions lasting an hour, caused by the ignition of enormous quantities of ammunition stored in the cellar of the palace.
He was responsible for helping a Jewish friend Giacomo Goldenberg and his family to hide in a cellar and supported them throughout the war, despite the enormous risk involved – at one point he was even arrested and questioned by the secret police in Florence.
The complex includes an enormous artists' center under construction, as well as a climate-controlled wine cellar, where muscat, chardonnay and merlot age.
The cellar of another club was home to a reclusive old woman with an enormous wardrobe who emerged intermittently in full makeup and laden with jewelry to roam the block shrieking at passers-by.
