New Year’s Eve is a wonderful time for a vacation in Venice.

Whether you’re looking for a cozy getaway or a festive party, Hotel Carlton Capri and Restaurant la Cupola offer you the opportunity to celebrate the New Year in style and serenity.

A “thousand and one nights” party – our chic St. Sylvester Gran Gala Dinner with live music and a tasty menu will bring you superb emotions and unforgettable experiences as we ring in the New Year!

Check out the special Menu and Programm for the St. Sylvester Night and also the special Early Booking Discount:

ST. SYLVESTER GRAN GALA DINNER

December 31st, 2011 – January 1st, 2012

New Year’s Eve Menu

Aperitif and small buffet of canapés
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Lobster medallion marinated in vanilla oil, late “radicchio” and oyster leaf
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Variation of cold and warm foie gras, Recioto wine Jelly, gingerbread and yellow apple
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“Fagottino” homemade fresh crepe bundles with burrata cheese, scampi and broccoli sauce with anchovy leakage
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Roast slice of turbot, artichokes and beer sauce “Duchesse”
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Lemon grass and basil sorbet
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Beef filet au gratin with walnut, candied red onion and smoked potatoes
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White chocolate ball with figs bavaroise “panettone” croutons, warm fondue and rum
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Cake of our Chef Arturo Granato
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And after Midnight … Trotter with lentils
Dancing and live music ALL NIGHT LONG!

Wines, water and coffee included.
Midnight Champagne not included.

Price Euro 250,00 per person.
Special Menu for children Euro 50,00

EARLY BOOKING SPECIAL DISCOUNT:

If you reserve before November 30th you will get 15% discount  (Euro 250,00 –> Euro 212,50);

So hurry now and book your ringside seat at La Cupola Restaurant!

In the spectacular setting of Palazzo Fortuny a glamorous exhibition is in progress (until 8 May 2011).
It is dedicated to the famous Venetian designer Giuliana Coen (1920) aka Roberta di Camerino, who reinvented the fashion for women since the ’50s.
A total look not only for clothes but replicated and involved also on different accessories using velvet, color combinations and shapes at all unusual and extravagant. And then scarves, umbrellas, luggage and bags as well (the famous “Bagonghi”, so appreciated by Princess Grace of Monaco).
Roberta di Camerino has represented a true revolution of color that brought a breath of newness and freshness in the fashion world.
She has invented the trompe-l’oeil by printing buttons, belts, lapels and pleats on materials.
After the great success of the Museum Revoltella of Trieste, the exhibition has landed in the venetian lagoon, where the famous Fortuny Museum is an ideal setting in perfect harmony of colors and styles among the paintings of Mariano Fortuny and the collection of Roberta.

Hours: daily 9:00 to 19:00.
25 December 2010 and January 1, 2011 closed.
Admission: € 9.00 €, reduced € 6.00 €. Free for children 0 / 5 years
Information and reservations: info@fmcvenezia.it

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice present an exhibition devoted entirely to Vorticism. The British literary and artistic movement formed in London in 1914.

Initially influenced by Italian Futurism and French Cubism, this avant-garde group of sharp angles and bold lines, went out of its way to reject the ‘irrelevant’ romanticism of the nineteenth century, instead stressing qualities such as violence and energy together with the increasing importance of mechanical machines in the modern world.

The term Vorticism was coined by Ezra Pound and Blast was the groups’ manifesto. It was edited by Percy Wyndham Lewis and the first issue (of two) contained two aggressive articles by Lewis.
Although Vorticism was born in London, several members were American, including sculptor Jacob Epsteinand, photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn, as well as the important patron John Quinn.
The exhibition will feature about 100 works, comprising paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and printed matter.

The Guggenheim Collection in Venice is open every day except Tuesday from 10 am to 6 pm.

Following the success of the exhibition dedicated to three of Giorgione’s most famous works, Palazzo Grimani in Venice is now featuring three works by Hieronymous Bosch.

Bosch was born c. 1450 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in Northern Brabant and, as far as we know, spent most part of his life in this isolated provincial town. His bizarre and fantastic paintings have puzzled and intrigued their viewers for centuries but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, rather like the “grotteschi” of Italian Renaissance ornament.

His work has always been hugely popular as well as controversial. His landscapes depicting humans, animals, and fabulous creatures in various states of ecstasy and misery were greatly imitated by his contemporaries and laid the foundations for the Surrealist movement of the 20th century.

These three works were part of the collection of cardinal Domenico Grimani and at the Cardinal death they were donated to the Serenissima and entered the Doge’s Palace collections.

In Bosch’s “Hermit Saints Triptych” (1510), Saints Anthony, Jerome and Giles appear there not as objects of devotion but as subjects in devotion. Neither cultic presences nor actors within significant events, they offer, through their inward attitude a model of subjective piety.

In “Visions of the Afterlife” (1500-1503), Bosch replaces the medieval Paradise and Hell, which were objective images of celestial and infernal hierarchies, with subjective visions that resemble the conceptions of the great mystics and exist only in the inner world of the soul. In their ascent into the heavenly paradise the souls are leaving the dark space of the universe and passing along a circular shaft which is already flooded with everlasting light. Intoxicated with joy, they are freeing themselves more and more from the laws of gravity and obeying the attraction of the realm of light.

The “Triptych of Saint Liberata” (1505) offers serious doubts about the iconographic interpretation. It may represent the Liberata, Virgo Fortis, condemned to the cross by her own father, the king of Portugal.

INFORMATION

Palazzo Grimani, Santa Maria Formosa, Venice
From 19th December 2010  to 20th March 2011

Opening times: daily 9am-7pm

Admission: Euro 9,00
Reduced: Euro 7,00