HTS HOTELS NEWS

Ponte Vecchio Challenge 2009/ December 18th, 19th and 20th

htshotels — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:18:58 +0000

Would you like to spend a very unforgettable day? From 18^th to 20^th December in Florence there will be the 10^th Edition of “Ponte Vecchio Challenge”, where the river Arno will be turned into a golf course! It will be a special opportunity in the heart of the main city of Tuscany to see a fantastic sport event, and to spend a very delightful time in there! Every part of Florence is decorated in this period of the year, and all the biggest champions will compete each other for the best approaches competition of the world, from the Ponte Vecchio arches to the anchored green in the river Arno.

Do you want to be there?

If you do not want to miss this event, please check the special offer reserved only for you in Florence!

ALESSANDRA AMOROSO –SASCHALL – 29th January

htshotels — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:38:58 +0000

Alessandra Amoroso is going to come in Florence! Her concert will take Place on Friday 29^th January to the Saschall in Florence! 200.000 copies has been sold and she won the double platinum award, too. She has been in competition with big Italian and international stars. During last summer Alessandra gave her first concerts all around Italy, she was always surrounded by all her hearty fans. After her brilliant start of career, she is now always busy and going to achieve success. Alessandra Amoroso is now ready to show her first album called “Senza Nuvole” full of new songs, came out the 25^th September and immediately on the top chart. She can now to be considered an international star, like Madonna.

Cost of the concert:

Numbered sit:

1^st section audience, Euro 28.50

2^nd section audience and circle Euro 24.50

3^rd section and circle Euro 20.00

Would you like to be present to her concert?

If you do not want to miss it, please check the availability for a stay in Florence Hotels!

New Year’s Eve with hts hotels in Florence

htshotels — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:36:25 +0000

Would you like to celebrate the New Year 2010 in Florence? The HTS First Hotel offers its guests an unforgettable special offer!

This is the menu of the New Year’s Eve Dinner:

Piccolo sformato di melanzane con cuori di calamaro ripieno
Ravioli di patate con fonduta di parmigiano e petali di porcino
Filetto di manzo lardellato
Patate fondenti e spinaci all’aglietto
Tiepido al cioccolato con salsa vaniglia e chicchi di uva del buono augurio
Caffè con friandises

Midnight Buffet:

Lenticchie e scalogno con cotechino di Modena
Dolci natalizi e brindisi al nuovo anno
“Brecce rosse”La Cura
“Prosecco di Valdobbiadene” Sant’Appiano
“Premium Pinot” Fontanafredda

If you don’t want to miss a magic night and enjoy the New Year’s Eve dinner in Florence, please check the availability for your stay in the surroundings of Florence!

Eros Ramazzotti “Ali e Radici” – 15th December – Mandela Forum

htshotels — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:42:36 +0000

On Tuesday 15th December at 9 pm Eros Ramazzotti will be finally on tour in Florence, at the Nelson Mandela Forum!A new album “Ali e Radici” composed by 11 new songs. It has a double musical view: besides Ramazzotti and Guidetti there is another genius of electronic: Michele Canova Lorfida. Comparing to the previous works, this one is much more concentrated on social topics like: the incommunicability among people, violence on the mankind and the rest of the nature. The lyrics reflect all the Ramazzotti walk of life, and also his artistic career. As a whole, the album Ali e Radici has international sounds, which range from the emphatic arches of “Parla con Me” to the overwhelming ones of “Appunti e Note”. The electronic adrenalin of “Non Possiamo Chiudere gli Occhi”, the six octave ballad “Il cammino” and the solemn R&B of “Controvento”, the rock accents of “Bucaneve”, “Ali e Radici” and of the lilting piano pop of “Affetti Personali”, the vigorous “Nessuno Escluso” and the classic pop of “Come Gioielli”.

Here are the ticket costs:

Rates: 1st stand 65€/ 2nd stand 45€/ 3rd stand 35€/ Standing room 30€

Would you like to spend a magic night?

If you wish you be there, please check the availability for a stay in the Florence Hotels!

Hamlet – 12th – 15th November 2009 – Teatro Verdi

htshotels — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:11:37 +0000

Would you like to spend a special moment? From Thursday 12^th November to Sunday 15^th November you can see a very magic show at Teatro Verdi in Florence: Hamlet!

Staging Hamlet is an attempt to explain, using strong words as Shakespeare used to, something that concerns all of us and the time we are living in, our time. Powerness and weakness, impulsiveness and reasonableness, sensitiveness and reflection: in the tragic history of Hamlet everything is extreme. The show is full of idealism and producers highlight both the personal drama and the conflict and ambitions of a young contemporary man, who has to test the corruptivity of humans life. This tragedy also underlines the theme of the innate conflict between ouster fathers and their sons. Fathers cannot accept the transition, and they impose their children an old society. Whereas, the new generation tries not to let them overwhelm by huge expectation and unattainable ambitions. Through Hamlet, the actor Alessandro Preziosi wants to talk about the contemporary time in order to take the classic theatre and art back to their fundamental role: they are the mirror in the world we are living. Hamlet is an intellectual in the dumps, he becomes current, because nowadays that kind of literary man loses power, and he is not able to “feel” and to cause a reaction to his spectators. Comparing the more classic versions, this new set intends to offer a different reading. This show is a way to find a politic and metaphorical sense in the Shakespeare plot.

Show hours:

12^th – 13^th- 14^th November : 8.45 pm

15^th November: 4.45 pm.

Via Ghibellina, 99/R 50122 Firenze

If you want to be present at this particular show, please check the availability for a stay in Florence!

International Movies Festival in Rome – 15th-23rd October 2009

htshotels — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:07:38 +0000

The 4^th edition of “International Movies Festival” will take place in Rome from 15^th to 23^rd October 2009! Many activities will include an immediate subdivision between movies in contest and previews; a lot of guests like Meryl Streep, Richard Gere, Helen Mirren and Stefania Sandrelli participate to a program with movies, flashbacks, meetings, events and concerts. The competition is composed by 14 movies, concerning the official selection: 3 of these movies are Italian productions: ”Alza la Testa” by Alessandro Angelini, ”L’uomo che verrà” by Giorgio Diritti and ”Viola di mare” by Donatella Maiorca. Some of the movies which are out of the competition- preview are: ”Julie & Julia” by Nora Ephron, the last film written by Coen brothers ”A Serious Man”, ”Le Concert” by Radu Mihaileanu, ”The City of Your Final Destination” by James Ivory. Italian movies are: ”Oggi sposi” by Luca Lucini and ”Christine Cristina” by Stefania Sandrelli.

Festival internazionale del film di Roma
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Viale Pietro De Coubertin,10
Dal 15 al 23 Ottobre 2009
Per informazioni:06 40401900

Would you like to spend unforgettable moments? Please, check the availability for your stay in Rome!

50 days of International Cinema in Florence: 29th October- 18the December

htshotels — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:10:27 +0000

The third edition of the greatest Italian festival is going to be in Florence. “50 Giorni di Cinema Internazionale a Firenze” : 9 international festivals will take place in the famous Odeon cinema, a deco-style building, which is located in the historical center of Florence. This spectacular event will start on Thursday 29^th October and it will end on Friday 18^th December. This edition promises to have a very wide program, with a lot of news about cinema: movie proposals, documentaries, previews, discussions, meetings with producers and actors.

This is the program:

France Odeon. Festival del Cinema Francese di Firenze (29th – 31st October)
Festival dei Popoli. Festival Internazionale del Film Documentario (1st – 7th November)
Festival Internazionale di Cinema & Donne (17th – 22nd November)
Lo schermo dell’Arte (23rd – 26th November)
Florence Queer Festival (27th Novembre – 3rd December)
River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival (4th – 10th December)
Premio N.I.C.E. Città di Firenze (11th December)
Immagini & suoni del mondo. Festival del Film Etnomusicale (12th – 13th December)

Special events:

25 years of GMM (8th November)
Occhi aperti su Kubrick (11th November)
Florence International Film Festival (12th November)
Una finestra sul Nord. Rassegna di cinema finlandese (13th – 15th november)

If you wish to take part to one of these great events, please check the availability for a stay in Florence!

La città degli Uffizi: Oratorio di Santa Caterina all’Antella e i suoi pittori – 19th September/31st December 2009

htshotels — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:21:43 +0000

Would you like to spend a special and different day? From Saturday 19^th September to Thursday 31^st December you can’t really miss the exhibition “La città degli Uffizi: L’Oratorio di Santa Caterina all’Antella e i suoi pittori”. It is located in the magic Chianti shire landscape, not so far from the city of Florence. Art, tradition and culture are blend in a great project that promotes and increases the value of the Florentine area. It talks about itself through the great past masters and thanks to the current protagonists with a lot of suggestive tales and real facts of the history. This special event takes place in such a magic place: the Oratorio di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria nel Piviere dell’Antella! The oratory will show twelve masterpieces coming from Galleria degli Uffizi reserve, from the Museo dell’Opera di santa Croce, from the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Lucca, from the Museo d’Arte Sacra di Incisa Valdarno, and from private collections, too.

Tickets and bookings

Opening hours:

Mondays from 3 pm to 7 pm. From Tuesdays to Sundays: from 9am to 1pm, from 3 pm to 7 pm

25^th December: closed

31^st December: from 9 am to 1 pm

Ticket rates:

5 euro, full price

3.50 euro, group special price (min 10 people), over 65, Coop members

2 Euro, for students, school groups and families with less than 14year-old children

FREE, teachers with students, group leader of package tours with less than 10 people, journalists with badge, children less than 6, invalid people with tutors, tour leaders, PS operators.

Other information:

Giuliana Righi, Roberta Tucci, tel. 055 6390357
Silvia Meli, tel. 055 6390373
oratoriosantacaterina@lacittadegliuffizi.it

Promoters of the exhibition:

Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco/Comune di Bagno a Ripoli/Provincia di Firenze/Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali.

If you want to partecipate, please check the availability for a stay in Florence!

Cinderella takes place in Rome – 17th – 22nd November 2009

htshotels — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:21 +0000

Would you like to spend a magic night and “feel like a child”?

From Tuesday 17th November to Sunday 22nd November, the Cinderella musical will take place at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome!

10 years since the last Walt Disney cinematic version, Cinderella musical is going to be shown for the first time in Italy!

If you wish to go there, please check the availability for a stay in Rome!

15 years with Emergency:

htshotels — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:07:48 +0000

Emergency is turning 15 years! After Fanano, San Marino, Orvieto, and Riccione, the 8th edition of the National Emergency Volunteer meeting will take place this year at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence.

The date will offer again exhibitions, movies, meetings, special guests on a foreign mission, national and international people who will be there to celebrate the Emergency birthday!

Every evening the celebration will show a lot of artistic, musical an cultural events in order to let everybody know all those people who contributed to work on this project, how to take part in it, and how to participate.

Would you like ti partecipate? Please, check the availability for your stay in one of the Florence hotels!