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A Contemporary Art Museum in Imperia

Inaugurated on February 6th the new Contemporary Art Museum in Imperia is hosted in Villa Faravelli, a historical beautiful 1930 villa.

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The museum will quickly become an important destination for contemporary art, nationally and beyond, thanks to its unique permanent collection donated by Lino Invernizzi and his wife to the City of Imperia.

The prestigious collection – of great cultural as well as economic value – consists of sixty works by the most esteemed authors of post-war contemporary art. It will add Imperia, already widely known for its extravirgin gourmet olive oil production, to the list of Italian art cities definitely worth a visit.

An architect from Genoa, Lino Invernizzi owned some of the greatest works of contemporary art with artists as renowned as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni with its “Achrome”, Marino Marini with “Cavallo e cavaliere”, Piero Dorazio, and Mario Radice, abstract art founder. Furthermore, the permanent collection includes works by Frank Kupka, Russian Cubo-Futurism exponent, Robert Delaunay, Orphism founder, Serge Poliakoff, Joseph Albers, Max Bill and Victor Vasarely, and the Ligurian abstractionist work by Rocco Borella.

VILLA FARAVELLI – Viale Matteotti, 151  – Imperia

Opening times:

Thursday 4-7pm

Saturday 9.30am-12.30pm and 4-7pm

Sunday 9.30am-12.30pm

Ticket: Euro 8, reduced fare Euro 5, free for children aged under 6 years

Pédaler sur la riviera italienne

DE SAN REMO À IMPERIA, LA DOLCE VITA À VÉLO

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Une échappée belle sur la Riviera italienne pour sortir des sentiers battus. La piste cyclable entre San Remo et San Lorenzo, c’est « le » bon plan « famille » de la rédac’.
Direction San Remo, à moins d’une heure de Nice par l’autoroute. Un grand parking à l’entrée de la ville permet de laisser sa voiture. Autre point de départ pratique: Ospedaletti, et le parking du port. Des loueurs proposent des vélospour petits et grands, des Rosalie…

Une fois équipé, il n’y a plus qu’à tailler la route. Pédaler sur ce parcours plat et sécurisé de 24 km, tracé sur l’ancienne voie ferrée. Profiter d’une vue somptueuse sur la mer, traverser des jardins, s’arrêter en terrasse pour savourerun cappuccino. La dolce vita…

Les anciennes gares et maisons de garde barrières ont été converties en buvettes, restaurants. «C’est ravissant de bout en bout, témoigne Chrystelle Burlot. Il y a des points d’eau tout le long et des endroits pour pique-niquer».

Conquis par cette « pista ciclabile », notre photographe Eric Ottino est, lui aussi, un habitué. Il aime l’ambiance familiale de ce parcours. «La piste est utilisée pardes promeneurs, des touristes,des familles, des enfants, des papis et mamies, des sportifs, toustrouvent leur place.»

Source: Nice Matin

San Remo Music Festival 2016

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The SanRemo Festival lands in a colorful, amusing and floral city from February 9th.

Finally! The most awaited-for week for Italian music fans is here. From February 9th to 13th, Italy stops to watch Sanremo festival, one of the main shows of Italy and worldwide. It is amusing to watch it from home, live on the TV.

While it is exciting to see it live, enveloped in the festive climate that livens up the entire city. Among the audience of Ariston theatre, walking around the shopping streets, on the boardwalk, at the Casino, parks or other areas that welcome the stars, singers, guests and tourists: the magical festive climate is everywhere.

On the stage, with Carlo Conti, Virginia Raffaele, Madalina Ghenea e Gabriel Garko. And also the top Italian singers, with many stars like Elisa, Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini. And the typical international surprise stars, from Ellie Goulding to Sir Elton John.

The final show on the 13th of February will see the election of the winner, who will have the right to represent Italy at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm.

The Festival will be on air on Rai 1, Rai HD, Eurovision and Radio 1, Radio 2.

Olioliva: the olive oil festival in Imperia

The Olioliva event will take place in the 13th – 15th November weekend in the historical centre of Imperia Oneglia.

Extra virgin olive oil is not just a local food specialty any more: it is rather an element of the Ligurian culture itself. Head to Imperia, world oil capital, from 13th to 15th November, for a whole weekend dedicated to this precious green gold. This is going to be a three-day celebration: the streets in the Oneglia city centre (from via Bonfante to largo Ghiglia, up to the charming calata Cuneo, which will be closed to traffic for the occasion) will welcome a real showcase for extra virgin olive oil and typical Ligurian products, which you can taste and buy.

The great celebrations will take place from 9 am to sunset on these two days.

An exhibition pavilion will be set up in calata Cuneo (port dock) just in front of our local office. LiguriaHomes Casamare | Knight Frank in Imperia is situated on Piazza De Amicis n. 15

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Olioliva Imperia

More info: www.promimperia.it/it/eventi/olioliva/

Wine in Sanremo, the wine festival from 10 to 12 October

‘Taste the emotions’: this is the slogan that will accompany the first edition of Wine in Sanremo, event to be held in the city of flowers, October 10 to 12 2015; for experts in the field as well as fans with the intent to promote a broad and multi-faceted culture of wine characterized by one common denominator: the thrill of tasting and discovery.

The heart of the event will be in the Palafiori where, starting from October 10, 11 a.m. , the Wine Salon in Sanremo will open to the public and will host more than 100 producers from various regions of Italy and over 600 wines for tasting.

Invited companies were selected from the excellence of Italian wine, a selection deliberately diversified by origin and type of the producers involved, in order to offer the visitor the widest overview in the world of wine. And it is in this light that the Palafiori hosts a calendar of important tastings led by a sommelier AIS and FISAR, unique opportunities to get to know some excellence of the Italian wine scene: among the leaders we have the Rossese of Dolceacqua and the Muscat of Taggia, pearls of Imperia’s territory, but also a tasting dedicated to the combination of grappa and cheese by ONAF and dedicated to the thirty years of the famous Barbera Bricco Uccellone.

Wine in Sanremo also offers a full program of events beside the expo designed to build a dialogue around wine. The program includes a retrospective of the films of Jonathan Nossiter Mondovino and Natural Resistance but also presentations and conferences devoted to wine and health. From cinema to research, from sports to wellness: Wine in Sanremo, through a program of rich events offers the audience a wide range of ideas to look at wine from new and different perspectives.

The complete program is available online at: www.wineinsanremo.it

From: ItalyRivieraAlps

From October 2nd to 4th, everybody on the beach in Diano Marina

WINDFESTIVAL, WIND AND SEA ARE THE PROTAGONISTS

Diano Marina is preparing to live 3 unforgettable days. The Windfestival, now at its fourth edition, is the biggest Italian event linked to wind and sea action sports, which sees the attendance of the most important brands of the windsurf, surf and sup spheres, that will present and let you test all the 2016 novelties.

Many different events with a single goal: have fun together! There will be contests like the “Terza Coppa Italia di Windsurf Freestyle Tow-In” and the “WF15 International Sup Challenge”, exclusive parties on the beach with exciting music until late night, national gatherings and free lessons to approach sea and wind sports, for all ages. Fitness on the beach will also be offered and Capoeira dancers will perform in the streets of the centre… in Diano, summer carries on!

To know more: http://2015.windfestival.it/