Inside the towering iron gates of Green Acres, a Beverly Hills estate built in the nineteen-twenties by the silent-film actor Harold Lloyd, a narrow road climbs through eight acres of lawns and gardens to a mansion modelled on the Villa Palmieri, the Florentine palazzo where Boccaccio set the "Decameron".
I don't want to be stupid!" Inside the towering iron gates of Green Acres, a Beverly Hills estate built in the nineteen-twenties by the silent-film actor Harold Lloyd, a narrow road climbs through eight acres of lawns and gardens to a mansion modelled on the Villa Palmieri, the Florentine palazzo where Boccaccio set the "Decameron".
The Palazzo Italia is set to be a permanent installation, even after the Milan Expo ends.
This 19th palazzo-turned-hotel has a lot going for it starting with its Palace District setting surrounded by outdoor cafes, leafy cobbled streets, and that authentic Budapest vibe.
In Rome, I visited the Basilica di Sant'Andrea della Valle, where the first act was set, and the Palazzo Farnese and Castel Sant'Angelo, Puccini's settings for the second and third acts, so I could get an impression of the space and design for the staging.
"The Etruscans," a major exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi here through July 1, sets out to demonstrate that there really is no such enigma.
Back in 2004, the film director bought the 19th-century hilltop palazzo (palazzomargherita.com; rates not yet set) in Bernalda, where his grandfather was born, as a private holiday home.
In a sense, Mr. Stingel has merged two forms of local architecture, turning a formerly residential palazzo into a setting for religious art after purifying it with the high, sometimes religious, art of another culture.
The Ackermann show was in the Palazzo Corsini, where long tables were set in a salon as if for a feast, and guests were seated on velvet sofas, Biedermeier chairs and Regency settees.
But the moment visitors set foot inside the palazzo, they forget that effort, said Raphael T. Harris Jr., owner of World Real Estate Immobiliare, an agency in Messina, Italy, representing the current owners in the sale.
