Giacomo Balla: the story of an artist on exhibition in Milan

Until 2nd June 2008 Palazzo Reale in Milan will host an exceptional exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest representatives of Italian Futurism: Giacomo Balla.

At the exhibition called “Giacomo Balla - La Modernità Futurista” (”Giacomo Balla - The Futurist Modernity“) it will be possible admire the whole Balla’s futuristic production, movement to which the artist conformed later than his contemporaries. The exhibition is founded on the study and the analysis of his futuristic artworks, true fount of energy.

Virtuosities of shapes and colours, broken shapes which give movement to the pictures. Artworks which still talk about sensations and shivers, maybe because of Balla’s previous artworks.

Spectators can admire about 200 artworks on exhibition, and for this occasion they will have the chance to retrace the whole artistic itinerary of the painter, highlighting the crucial moments of change.

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Disney on Ice comes to Italy

“Disney on Ice” comes to Italy, the great show on ice which has as protagonists the most famous and beloved personages of fantasy.

This year “Disney on Ice” celebrates its 100th birthday and for the occasion it decided to involve in celebrations also the hearty Italian audience. Infact Minnie, Mickey Mouse, the Disney princesses and many other personages, arrive at “Palalottomatica” (the major sport palace in Rome) between 23 and 27 April, giving as a gift their audience a wonderful show on ice.

Adults and kids will be called to jump in the world of fairytales which for this occasion come back to life, and which, between music and dance, inscribe on ice a magic dreaming atmosphere.

The great Disney on Ice Musical is an event not to miss and it’s an occasion to persuade children in believing in fairytales, and also to persuade us that we weren’t wrong to believe it when we were children!

Before Rome, the musical will reach first the city of Milan (9 and 13 April - Palasharp), and then, Turin (16 and 20 April - Mazda Palace), therefore if you don’t want renounce to an evening of music and entertainment, and you desire to have all the information about the cities which will host the musical, visit our websites about Rome, Turin and Milan.

Don’t hesitate to go and see the musical…. you can live in a magic fairytale once only!

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An Exhibition for Women’s Art

Until 6th April in “Palazzo Reale” of Milan an original exhibition will take place, and it’s entirely dedicated to the pictorial production of women, “L’Arte delle Donne dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo” (”Women’s Art from Renaissance to Surrealism”).

Infact this time tourists will not see artworks whose subjects are women, or rather not only…. because all exhibited pictures are painted by female painters, artists who deeply etched on Art History from Renaissance to Surrealism.

The exhibition’s aim is to highlight and to give the woman role a new value in the field of art, by proposing a scenery of the most important feminine artworks which belong to the last five centuries. (more…)

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Let’s Run! StraMilano starts again

On next 6th April the most expected sport event by the runners of our country comes back: ‘Stramilano 2008‘.

‘StraMilano’ is the most famous extracity in Italy, an event which, from 1972, gives as a gift to the city of Milan an entirely day dedicated to sport, to health, to solidarity, and to entertainment.

This year StraMilano is scheduled on 6th April, and once again, it will include professional and amateurs athletes who come from all over the world. StraMilano is dedicated to everyone, with no age, sex or “speed” discrimination.

Infact, the marathon, for its participants, divides itself into three! Right, because during the day of 6th April there will be three different itineraries which will go through the city: ‘StraMilano of 50,000′, ‘StraMilano Agonistica Internazionale’ (International Agonistic Stramilano) and ‘Stramilanina’ (The little StraMilano).

‘StraMilano of 50,000‘ is the no-competion run which took place along (more…)

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Discovering Milan and its Navigli

“Milano dell’acqua” (”Milan & Waters”) is the name of a particular and suggestive event which takes place in these days in Milan and is born to value and appreciate the landscape and the history around the city of Milan, sometimes unknown by its own inhabitants.

The event has started on 14th February and is divided into a list of appointments which will give foreigners and people from Milan the opportunity to discover the territorial waters of the city through an unusual and suggestive itinerary, from the city Aquarium, to the Navigli and covered water channels of the city.

There will be 20 appointments which will lead all the participants in the historic, artistic and cultural reconstruction of the hidden part of Milan, certainly the most beautiful and interesting one.

Among many cultural projects, there are also lots of events for kids, and for all the participants there’s a brochure of the route full of images of the most beautiful water places.

“Milano dell’acqua” is part of the project “Cento Milano” (”One Hundred Milan”) and, as expected, it represents the fourth event, which will be followed in May by (more…)

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Milan between ritual and Oh Bej Oh Bej

Every year, on the 7th of Dicember the city of Milan celebrates the day dedicated to St. Ambrogio, saint and patron of the city.

This day represents an event very significant for all the citizens, who are involved in celebrations both religious and popular.

The 7th of Dicember, in fact, people goes to the special mess in honour of the saint, celebrated by the Archbishop of Milan in the Basilica dedicated to the city’s Patron. The Ambrosian Ritual originates even before the Saint, and has a duration and some characteristics different from the Roman Ritual.

But what makes this celebration a special event and recalls every year not only the Milaneses, is the fair of the “Oh Bej, Oh Bej”. (more…)

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WAITING FOR CHRISTMAS TO LEARN ITALIAN LANGUAGE

The “Leonardo da Vinci Italian School” for next Christmas has decided to dedicate to its students a “Special Christmas Course”.
This is particular course because it gives them not only the possibility of learning to speak Italian, but also to live a typical Italian Christmas, by coming in contact with the most popular Italian traditions during Christmas time.

In Italy Christmas time goes from the 8th of December to the 6th of Genuary, and it is characterized by many strange and particular traditions which make this feast unique.

In this period, in fact, all the Italian people decorate their houses in a special way: they are dedicated to the preparation of the typical Presepe Napoletano’s but especially they spend a lot of time by preparing (more…)

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Comiconvention returns in Milan

The city of Milan welcomes its annual appointment with Comiconvention, famous comics Fair which celebrates this year its XVIII° edition.

On 29th and 30th of September the comics’ protagonists will appear inside the Quark Centro Congressi.

Started in 1990, Comiconvention celebrates this year its 18th birthday.
It represents one of the most expected events for comics fans and collectors, who every year rush here to admire and take rare and unique pieces. (more…)

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Events of the Milanese summer

After the very animated summer 2006, this year the Milan’s municipality offers to the citizens staying at home and to all the tourists visiting the city, a more “moderate” summer, putting in the calendar a series of concerts and cultural events with the aim of delighting, but without shocking, the hot nights of this big Italian chief town. 15 exhibitions, more than 76 concerts, 6 musical reviews, 24 theatrical performances for 95 projections and 4 thematic film reviews are the numbers of this Milanese summer, which takes the name of “La Bella Estate”.

From a cultural point of view, the summer program is rich and varied. Several film reviews have already been projected, which wanted to be tributes to the big Italian cinema and literature’s personalities, such as the tribute to Alberto Moravia on the occasion of his birth’s centenary.
City sights like Vilaggio Barona, the Grassi Theatre, the Studio Theatre, Leonardo Theatre and Libero Theatre, represent this year the main nightlife centres, by housing theatre reviews and recitals. Among the others, the “Machbeth” play comes up directed by Corrado D’Elia, a great success performed again in this days at the Libero Theatre, from 3rd to 21st of July.
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Milan: discover the Navigli of Leonardo

Thanks to About Milan and Paesionline.com in the last few days we rediscovered the beauty and the historical and scientific importance of the Navigli of Milan. To our astonishment we have discovered that there is a company that organizes, as a result of the last year’s success, excursions on the Navigli of Leonardo during the whole summer.

In fact, until 30th September it is possible to book an excursion on the Navigli on three different routes:

• The Valley Line: from Alzaia Naviglio Grande 4 to dam “Conchetta”, passing along Darsena of Milan;
• The line Delizie: along the route Robecco sul Naviglio - Castelletto di Cuggiono;
• The line Parco Sud that unravels along the path that connects Milan with Gaggiano.

It is very unusual that the term “Navigli”, in Milan, is identified with only the two opened routes of Navigio Grande and Naviglio Pavese and in more general sense the area between the two navigable canals characterized by the presence of numerous nightspots.

In fact, many people don’t know, and here we come to the usual fact, that the Navigli were used not only to transport different kinds of merchandise to Milan, but also to transport the marble of Candoglia used in the construction of Milan’s Cathedral, and in more recent times, to transport the rolls of paper used by the typewriters of Corriere della Sera.

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