In San Remo Jubilmusic 2011 the international Festival of Christian Music

From November 17 to November 20 there will be the  Thirteenth edition of the the Jubilmusic, the most important Italian  Festival of Christian Music and one of the most famous one on the European scene.

For the city of San Remo this will represent four days of  grand events and everything is ready to greet on the streets and in the squares  the thousands of  young people from all the Italian Diocesi.

The theme of the edition 2011  will be “For True Love“, many popular, famous Italian and international artists of  Christian  inspiration will be present. The partecipation to all the events is free.

On Thursday 17  from 9:30 am there will be a meeting with the High Schools at the Opera Theatre of the Casinò, while on Friday 18   in the same place and at the same time there will be a meeting  with the students of  the Elementary and Middle Schools.

Friday evening at 9:00 at the Church of the Angels there will be a Prayer Vigil with the Bishop of the Diocesi .

Saturday 19 at 9:15 pm, a grand show at the Ariston Theatre in Corso Matteotti, on the stage the Festival with all its artists and singers.

 Sunday 20 at 11:15 am the Holy Mass will be celebrated in the  Cathedral of San Siro as the final conclusion of the event.

San Remo Wedding 2011

An unmissable appointment for all the couples  planning to get married, Saturday 19 and Sunday November 20 there will be the first edition of the San Remo Sposi (San Remo Wedding) held in the Palafiori in Corso Garibaldi, the fair for weddings.

A special event particularly aimed to  young couples in Liguria, Cotè Azur and  Piedmont, that will find in San Remo Wedding  a fair with hundreds of stands all concerning wedding and everything that revolves  around this ceremony.

Visitors may see wedding  dresses and suits, have informations about catering or honeymoons, passing through jewels, wedding cakes, wedding favors, invitations and perfect locations.

There will be photographers, brilliant wedding planners, florists and set designers for ceremonies and many other experts that work around this magical wedding world.

To receive  further information you can visit  the site of San Remo Sposi  2011, the opening hours for the public will be Saturday from 2:00pm to 7:00 pm and Sunday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm

On Saturday afternoon at 5:00 pm you can assist the cutting of the wedding cake offered by the Pastery Setti di Taggia, on Sunday at 3:00 pm there will be a fashion show of wedding outfits for the bride and the groom.

Our agency,  Riviera Divina Weddings, with the collaboration of leading experts, specialized in making the wedding day as special and beautiful as possible. We can organize your wedding in the most exclusive locations of  the Flower Riviera and of the nearby Cotè Azur, we can decorate beautiful yachts, luxurious villas and castles too. We provide every kind of services according to your desire and requests, from the floreal decorations to the wedding favors, passing through hairstyles and clothings, an all’inclusive service in perfect American Wedding Planner style .

A Fantastic Halloween awaits you in the Riviera! Triora or Dolceacqua, the choice is yours

In the town of witches and mystery the preparatives are bubbling for one of the most richest Halloween, full of extravagances and follies in an absolutely “dark” location where in the most scariest night of the year music and street theatre will alternately come to live an authentic “Black Night” .

The atmosphere will be Gothic Mediaval, the lights will be dimm and placed around in the old town, in every corner you’ll  find a different attraction, from the fakir on a bed of nails to a rock/dark band, passing through games and ancient Ligurian songs for young and old.

The special guests of the Black Night will be the Plan de Fuga,  a new rock band that’s going strong on the national dark scene. Constantly on air on the major radio station, this talented band will be performing in the middle of the night in the town of the witches.

Starting from Sunday  afternoon from 3:00 children can live this ghostly atmosphere with the Witch Truccabimbi (Facepainting Witch), Witches’ tales and the representation of the capture of the witches.

The challenge of the most scariest Halloween , the spear Dolceacqua, where in the most unique location throughout the Western Ligura, the Doria Castle,  the fantastic kids of Autunnero, organizers of the Halloween Gothic Fest 2010, will give the kicking start to the Fright Night 2011.

The Halloween Fright night, scheduled for Monday October 31, will take inspiration  from the great american horror films of the eighties. There will be performances, workshops and games for kids.  Main protagonists of the evening will be  some superstars  suspended between horror and humor, like Fred Kuger from Nightmare, Jason Voorhees from Friday 13 and  Michael Myers from Halloween.

The festival will open in the early afternoon on Monday with Magus in Fabula, a show presented by the magician and actor Beppe Brondino and the fortune teller Madame Zorà, which will do a performance of alchimery on one side in Gandalf  and Lord Of The Rings’s style   and of palmistry and transformism  on the other.

In the charming glass room of the Castle of Dolceacqua a series of meetings on the theme “The night of the Monsters”: the origins of Halloween, told halfway between folkore and movie variation, following the show “L’incubo del Giullare” (Joker’s nightmare)  about  fire and illusion will steal the scene.

Fudamental is the music part where the stage will be shared by the Blaemon, authors of many soundtracks of the Italian Horror  Guru Dario Argento and the Spiral69 which will present their new album No Paint on the Wall.

The whole day will be delighted with the most delicious street food in the sweet and salty version to satisfy all the tastebuds!!

As  for all the events, we offer the opportunity to book the combined  tourist package, a night in hotel and the evening at only  €59,00 per person in double room accomodation and breakfast. The two nights in special offer at  € 99,00 per person in double room accomodation with breakfast included.

Now you really have all the elements for an authentic scary Halloween, the choice is yours!!

In Genoa from November the exhibition “Van Gogh and Gauguin’s journey”

It will take place on November 12 in the Palazzo Ducale (Ducal Palace) of Genoa, in the exhibition rooms of the Doge, the grand thematic exhibition entitled “Van Gogh and Gauguin’s journey”.

The organization has been edited by  Marco Goldin, a Trevisian art historian that will bring to Genoa a batch of eighty masterpieces of  European and American Art of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

The main theme will be the journey, seen as a discovery of new territories, the exploration and the navigation but also as an interior and artistic insight.

You can see some original letters and forty masterpieces of Van Gogh, other works  by Hopper, Turner, Morandi, Kandinsky, Monet and various artists of the European and American scene of the past century.

It will be exhibited for the second time in Europe  Paul Gauguin’s painting  ”Da dove veniamo? Chi siamo? Dove andiamo?” (Where are we from?, Who are we? Where are we going?)  from Boston.

The exhibition will be open until April 15 aprile 2012 with the following opening hours, from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 8pm.

The exhibitions of the San Remo Tango Festival

The Nyala Hotel is the home of two prestigous exhibitions that will take place during the third edition of the San Remo Tango Festival. It’s about a photo exhibition entitled “Sombras de Tango” by Rossana Capasso – the most famous Euopean  deejay of  Tango – and a painting exhibition “Corpi e colori nel Tango Argentino”  (Bodies and colors in the Argentine Tango), by the dancer and teacher Dorella Gigliotti. Both exhibitions will take place within the prestigous Art rooms of the Nyala Hotel and are curated by the art critic  Giorgia Cassini.  In the photo exhibition “Sombras de Tango” by Rossana Capasso, the Argentine Tango appears syntheseized in the extreme contrast between black and white. It’s the enchantment of a dance that seems to be danced with a shadow (www.rossanacapasso.it). “Sombras  de Tango” – underlines Rossana Capasso -gathers a selection of  shots realized in 2010 in the milongs of center and nothern Italy. Photos where the light and the shade swallows the context and part of the portraited subjects, bringing to life an intensive dance in the dark, in the company of ghosts”. The painting exhibition “Corpi e colori nel Tango argentino” by Dorella  Gigliotti initially seems a work on colors, to mark the intensive passages of the moviments of the dance  (www.dorellagigliotti.it). Slowly as the couple comes to life - adds Dorella Gigliotti -the twisting of the bodies, the sparkle of the jewel leads us to a flashback of the evening and transforms the dancers in a suspended moment, never frozen. The intense passion is combined with the technique coloring with emotions the performance, the perfect step leaves the pace to a compromise with the carnality, the figures blend together, are exasperated and clash. The bodies , which measure the intensity of the emotions, were born in an environement where its importance was fundemental and just because it was so important for such a long time, now they need to free themselves from today’s claustrophic concept of aesthetic emptied by the emotional meaning ( breathe, glances, embrace). In the eternal struggle (in the painting as in life), I find a new light that is redefined in new aesthetic rules”.

Until October 9.

Everday from 10:00 a.m to 7:00 p.m.

Free admittance.

The San Remo Derby of Flowers

Horse contests in San Remo

During the weekend of October 7-9, it will take place  the horse show of international importance , the CSI Derby Of Flowers (Derby dei fiori).

At the Solaro Horse Pitch (Campo ippico del Solaro) in the City of  Flowers the best and the most talented riders of the moment will challenge.

The Derby Of Flowers is a race with spectacular shades which leads to San Remo thousands of people including athletes, companions and public, is organized by the San Remo Horse Society, supported by the City of San Remo and by several sponsors.

The contest of October is one of the events of excellence organized by the San Remo Horse Society that can boast valid sport facilities, an excellent federal riding school and can count on athletes like Rafael Amaral Rodrigues and Maddalena Valenzano Menada. 

There will be over 250 horses and 150 riders present in the contest from many nations. Besides Italy, countries like France Belgium, Brasile, Chile, Great Britain, the Principality of Monaco, which often sees the young Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of  Princess Caroline of Monaco, will be well represented.

The Derby is a steeplechase  contest that is held for  part of the contest on an indoor field and part on an outdoor field, the competition also  faces very intensive stretches, very exciting both for the public and for the partecipants.

The Derby of Flowers will be televised  by the Horse TV,  Sky channel 221 . For further information, please visit the site www.societaippicasanremo.com

3rd Tango Festival San Remo Nyala Suite Hotel

The city of San Remo and the Nyala Hotel will become for the third time the prestigous stage of theTango Festival Of San Remo.

 From Friday September 30 to Sunday October 2 there will  a weekend rich of argentine atmosphere and grand sensuality related to tango.

The official seat of the event like for the previous editions will be the Hyala Hotel, along with other locations like theAriston Theatre and the Theatre Of  The Workers of Via Corradi (Teatro della Società Operaia di via Corradi).

The 2011 edition will have as the main theme the idea of the “couple”, expressed in all their facets and dynamics.

The programms  of these  three days will be intense and rich, with tango lessons, performances of worldwide famous dancers, apertifs at the tango rythm and fashion shows in theme.

To discover in detail all the surprises of this intense weekened we invite you to visit the site of  the Festival Tango San Remo.

The event is inserted in a carnet of high quality events  that the City of Flowers offers all year long, the festival can boast a  mix of entertainment and culture that satisfies an international audience that grows every year. 

The 20011 edition will give again as always space to vary side events, the halls of the Nyala Suite Hotel will host a photo exhibition  intitled “Sombras de Tango”, by Rosanna Capasso and a painting exhibition of the artist Dorella Gigliotti, “Corpi e Colori nel tango argentino” (Bodies and Colors in the Argentine Tango).

A family holiday in San Remo

Last year three thousand families have chosen our hotel in San Remo for their holidays.

The panoramic position of the Nyala Hotel in San Remo

San Remo is a perfect place to bring children all year long: the healthy and unique climate of the Flower City made it become the main resort of the Mediterranean from 1860 to 1940, where royals and aristocratic  habitually  frequented it for long or short periods of convalescence.

The peculiarity of the climate is still the same today and it’s also certified by a recent Canadian research which has elected  San Remo as the town  with the best climate in the world. The rarity of the San Remo climate lies in the limited temperature range between day and night and between summer and winter.

Playground of the Nyala Hotel in San Remo

The panoramic location of our hotel, surrounded by nature, at 80 m above sea level is perfect also for the health of your children as it protects them against pollution and particulate matter of the busy via Aurelia that crosses the entire city, as well as mitigating the humid effects of the sea. It’s not a case that the Solaro area was preferred by many aristocrats that built luxurious nineteenth century villas, with the park of one of them that now is the setting for our pool.

By choosing our hotel for the holidays, you’ll find a staff accustomed to work with children and that are aware of their needs, besides a special hospitality in the scene of the Flower Riviera, with bigger traditional rooms above the average and a substantial number of   junior suites with dimensions and comfort of the upper class, which are going through a complete renewal in these weeks.

Playroom of the Nyala Suite Hotel in San Remo

Our programs for 2011 also include a mini club service with assistance during the period of the school holidays: April 22-25, from June 26 to September 3 and from December 28  to January 6.

During the whole year the hotel offers a fenced playground surrounded by greenery with a slide, swings and spring toys and a nearby area with football table, ping pong, giant chess and checkers. A 15 sq.m. playroom with wooden toys, board games, children’s books , DVDs  with cartoons and video games.

Our restaurant is equipped with high chairs and cushions  for younger kids and cutlery  and glasses for children. Our chefs will offer a different baby menu everyday and will always be ready to prepare meals  for small children. For mom and dad there’s a small equipped kitchen at their disposal for the preparation of  baby food  just like at home in any moment of the day or night.

On our site you can find all the information for a pleasant family holiday in San Remo and our  special rates for  families with kids from 0 to 17 years old! Our hotel is member of the Italy Family Hotels, the National Consortium  that  unites hotels  for families with kids and adheres to the services brochure.

La posizione panoramica del Nyala Hotel di Sanremo

Advance of summer in the City of Flowers

Sanremo is ready to welcome you for the first weekend of summer, a beautiful start for the season in which you can discover the City of Flowers starting from the long weekend of June 2!

It could be a fantastic occasion to know about or rediscover the thousands of shades of the Riviera of Flowers , the many attractions that Sanremo  encloses and  a small walk from the Cote Azure and from Monaco to experience fairy tale emotions.

The peaceful and equipped beaches, the crystal clear and refreshing sea are ready for your dive in a bath of sunlight even in June!

For sport lovers and for families with kids there’s nothing better than a wonderful cycle ride along the bike path overlooking the sea that crosses the City of Flowers which connects Ospedaletti to San Lorenzo al Mare.

Food lovers will find a large selection of restaurants on the sea to enjoy fresh seafood and the many specialties of the Ligurian Riviera.

For those instead that love to discover the hinterland and the mountains close to the sea, they’ll be in the right place! You can quickly arrive at the nearby village of SanRomolo, surrounded by chestnuts and from which you can enjoy a breathtaking  view  of the Gulf  of Sanremo, sipping a drink far form the heat of the coast.

For those who love to discover enchanted villages after San Romolo, you can continue  for Bajardo also known as ” the town of the fairies” …to be discovered and to remain enchanted of!

To the eternal insatiable we would like to reveal a secret… in the territory of SanRemo there’s a peak that reaches 1299 metres, Mount Bignone that is situated in the Natural Park of San Romolo and Mount Bignone, on the mountain top there’s the most highest defensive building of the district built by Liguri Intemelii.

In the clear days from the summit of  Mount Bignone you can embrace a magnificent view and it will gift you with the view of the sun that sets behind the hills of the Cotè Azur….. spectacle strictly offered by the City of Sanremo!

To fully enjoy this occasion, discover the interesting offers that Nyala Wonder Travel has in reserve for you with its  exclusive packages for the City of Flowers!

Have a good holiday!

Villa Regina Margherita in Bordighera becomes Museum

Grand event Sunday 19 June, for the inauguration  of the museum  of  Villa Regina in Bordigihera, this residence will house inside many work arts  belonging to the Terruzzi  Foundation, that along with the province of Imperia, have carried out the restoration and creation of this important museum complex of  western Liguria.

The villa was built on the Roman Road, commissioned by Queen Margherita of Savoy, according to the progect of the archtect Luigi Brogli in barocchino style  of the eighteenth century by Lombard inspiration, between 1914 and 1916.

The Queen frequently stayed in the City of the Palms and the construction of the Villa  crowned one of her dreams , to have a steady residence in Bordighera.   Right in “ her beloved  villa of Bordighera”, as she loved to call it,  she died in 1926.

The museum will house the paintings of the Terrazzi Collection, the most biggest Italian private collection which include about a  thousand of works of great artists such as Luca Giordano, Paola De Matteis, Oreste and Giorgio De Ferrari…

The museum of Villa Margherita will also house oriental porcelain and a library with over 4000 books of art available to the public,  temporally one can also visit a section that gathers the work arts from the Collection of the Quirnal.

The  Museum Pole of  Villa Margherita in Bordighera will also have areas to host cultural and artistic events and will certainly bring in Riviera  flows of tourists passionate of art and historic residences.

As always you can see  here our tour package , which includes,  among the other attractions, also the new Villa Queen Margherita