Contest: “Funny Travel with your family”

Summer means sun, sea and holidays. And the holidays bring photos. Capturing a happy moment and detail of our lives to share it with friends and family is one of the little pleasures in everyone's life.
And it is to share with many people these moments of happiness that the blog "Mamma Giramondo", in collaboration with our hotel, has launched a photo contest named "Funny Travel with your family."

Joining is very simple: just upload a picture portraying a fun time in your family holiday on the board of the Hotel Montemezzi Facebook page, entering in the description "Mammagiramondo" and the title chosen. Then send an email to both mammagiramondo@gmail.com and marketing@hotelmontemezzi.it with your data and the title of the photo, et voilà, you're done. (Here's the complete rules)

 
And, as in any contest worthy of the name, there's also a nice prize… the winning picture will in fact become part of the collage that makes the cover image of the Hotel Montemezzi Facebook page and, in return for the provision of service and as recognition of personal merit, the winner will receive a free coupon for a 2-night stay in the Hotel's Funny Room, including a gift ticket for a theme park of their choice among Movieland, Parco Natura Viva, Parco Sigurtà or Gardaland, which will be delivered upon arrival at the hotel!

The contest will end at 23:59 on July 30, 2012, do not wait until the carriage turns back into a pumpkin, show us your idea of fun before it's too late!

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Verona: a tour of the city. Unusual places

In the last post we mentioned the landmarks which you can not miss during your visit. This time we'll talk about some places a little more unusual and less traveled, though as beautiful as the others.

Out first destination are the so-called "Arche Scaligere", funerary monuments of the greatest rulers of the family that ruled over Verona. They are located next to the church of Santa Maria Antica, near the Piazza dei Signori. The most important (and first in time) to be buried in one of those graves was Cangrande (1291-1329), just the one to whom Dante dedicated the Paradise for the kindness which he received from him during his exile from Florence. Other successors are today in these monumental decorated sarcophagi, impossible to miss them!

Another place to remember is Castelvecchio. Built between 1354 and 1357 by Cangrande II della Scala to protect his court in a tumultuous period of war, over the centuries the castle has undergone several shifts of use, first as an arsenal and barracks, then as a prison, until in 1923 it became the museum that we know today. In our day it's in fact the Civic Museum of the city of Verona, an art gallery and library.

Connected to Castelvecchio by the amazing Ponte Scaligero, there's the Austrian arsenal, built between 1840 and 1861, different from the Habsburg era buildings it resembles a Romanesque Revival medieval castle. It's built on an area of 62,000 square meters, and consists of separate structures for warehouses, stores and workshops, all immersed in lush green vegetation.

Only ten minutes from the Arena, there is a magic place that takes the visitor back to the calm and tranquility forgotten in today's life: Giardino Giusti. The first part goes back to the 15th century and, over the centuries, has been expanded and enriched with fountains, acoustic grottos, a maze of hedges among the most ancient in Europe and an avenue decorated by cypresses, at the end of which a ladder leads you to one of the most breathtaking view of the city.

These are just some of the magical places that are enclosed in this beautiful city. Many others are just waiting to be discovered.

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Verona: a tour of the city. First Part

Not only romance and operas, Verona is much more.
As early as 2000, UNESCO included it among the World Heritage Cities, a very well deserved acknowledgement for a city that hosts, in a few square kilometers, history and beauties that are way too often underestimated.
How not to start our tour from Piazza Brà, a sea of architectonic works that can not but leave its first time visitors breathless. From here we can admire and visit the Arena, build in the first century after Christ using the marble extracted from the quarries of the province and still fully functional so as to accommodate more than 600,000 spectators each year during what is the world's most important opera season.

Let's continue then with Piazza Erbe, for several years  the hub of social and economic life of the city. A set of styles different in type and age but wonderfully balanced. In short, one of the finest squares in Italy.

A must stop is also the famous Juliet's house, where you can visit the balcony from where she secretly talked with her Romeo. And don't forget to give a rub to the right breast of the statue! It is said to bring luck in love and not only…
And why not, a stop at Romeo's house can only get you involved even more in the romantic city.

Another mandatory one is Ponte Pietra (lit: Stone Bridge), build in the first century BC to replace an earlier wooden bridge, it is thus the most ancient Roman monument in Verona and a vantage point for an overview on the river Adige.

Next week we'll take you to get to know other unmissable places in the beautiful Verona, that’s not far from Hotel Montemezzi!

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"The Fun Hotel" presents: Strange signs and well-known fictional characters at Montemezzi's

Keep your eyes open if you decided to stay at The Fun Hotel. After the previews that we showed you on the Facebook page, it's time to introduce new games and absurd signboards in the hotel.



 
Do you remember Edward Scissorhands? And the Hulk?

The Smurfs and the Lilliputians?

 

 

So while you're waiting at the reception, you're going to take the elevator or go into one of the five Funny Rooms, you can run into these well-known fictional characters and participate in fun games.

Inside the Funny Rooms and passageways in the hotel, you can participate in "Magic Mirror" (sounds like a tongue twister) and "Picture ShapeShifter".

"Magic Mirror"
Are you tired of the usual post-vacation photos? Do you feel more like an Indian, a singer, a Mexican or a magician? Put yourself in front of a Magic Mirror, turn into one of the four characters and take a picture of you. Again, after publishing the picture on our page, I suggest you go and tell the receptionist you participated in "Magic Mirror".

"Picture ShapeShifter"
In this game you have to recognize which shape, animal or object, hides "in” the framework. The stereogram is a two dimensional image that creates an illusion of depth. As if there was a framework inside the 3D object. It's simple, needed only a little training :)
However if you guessed the object and commented on our facebook page, I suggest you go and tell the receptionist that you participated in the "Picture ShapeShifter".

Oh sure, I take the opportunity to remind you of "Find the difference"!

Italians do it better... obviously the carnival potato gnocchi

Today's the day of Bacanal del Gnoco, now in its 481 th edition, which like every year will bring enthusiasm and joy amont the presents. Leading the parade, traditionally ending in Piazza Zeno, there will be the Papà del Gnoco, King for a day in Verona, that will pay homage to the presents with potato gnocchi, tipical of Venerdì Gnocolar. To prepare the recipe for potato gnocchi of Verona (which are prepared by thousands of Veronesi in these days) it takes skill and wisdom, but if you want to start training for next year, we present you the main steps.

Ingredients:
1 kg "floury consistency potatoes"
1 "egg"
300 g "00 flour"
salt to taste

Preparation
Wash the potatoes and boil in water, peel and mash, then mix with the flour whichwas previously added to the egg and salt. Stir the mixture until it is soft, spraying, ifnecessary with a little flour the work surface. Form of a small loaf one or two cm high, cutin small pieces about 3 cm in length and then slid them down on the grating by pressing lightly. Pour in boiling salted water and catching them as they arise on the surface. Season to taste (though many would say "strictly tomato").

A "Kiss Mob" for Valentine's Day in Verona

They've been well talked about in the recent years. If you have not partecipated, surely you've heard of them at least once at the news. We are talking about one of the methods. We are taking about one of the most fashionable methods to meet and express one's creativity in this period: the Flash Mob.





This word means a sudden and rapid performance of a large number of people who enact public spaces in an unusual action for a short period of time.
Perhaps it's because one can partecipate with everyone else in something that breaks the normal routine, maybe because they are organized by word of mouth, which is spread on the web through blogs, forums and social networks, in fact flash mob managed to clear through customs perfromance that were once made only be small groups of artists, to the amusement of all.
Among the most copied, and most organized, performances there are for example the pillow battle, or the freeze, in which everyone remain on hold for several minutes, and the group kiss.



If for example you wanted to participate with your sweetheart to a group kiss what would be the day and the city where you would like to do? It would probably be Valentine's Day in Verona.... or so the organizers of VeronaInLove thought, planning an event for those who want to celebrate Valentine's Day in a special way in one of the most romantic cities in Italy.
Un Cuore di Baci (literally: "a heart of kisses"), is an event internal to the VeronaInLove experience, in which all of the couples were invited via web to appear on the impressive staircase of Palazzo Barbieri, illuminated in red, to seal their love with a over-a-minute kiss.
Don't you want to show everyone how much you love each other in a fun and a little different than usual way?

The urban legend of Arena di Verona

Once upon a time, there was a rich man who was imprisoned and sentenced to death because of slanderous accusation, no longer he hoped to be saved. On the eve of execution, in his cell he received the visit of the devil himself, and from him, he received a weird advice. Since the biggest desire of Verona was to have a huge theater, he would have had to build one, to gain freedom.

The condemned man remarked that no man was capable of so much in the short time of one night. So saying, however, he fell into the trap of the devil. Of course he had the power needed to build a building in one night, but on one condition...



as soon as the man sold his soul to the devil, one thousand demons began feverishly working to build a huge theater. The man, now regretting the deal, turned desperately to the Holy Virgin to ask her forgiveness, and spent his last night in prayer. Shortly before dawn, while the demons were about to complete the work, the bells of the Angelus suddenly pierced the sky still dark.

Touched by the sincere repentance of the condemned man, the Virgin had sent Her angels to stop the work. A huge amphitheater was standing in the city, beautiful but unfinished, it established the defeat of the devil, the realization of the desire of Verona and the liberation of the rich man.

The colors of Veronese Plain

Many thanks to our special guests: you are the great value for the Montemezzi hotel!!!

Thank you very much to our guests which spent last weekend in Verona.

We do our best everyday to ensure a nice and restful stay to all our guests.

It is not a easy job, but we work with passion and faith to make Verona one of the most appreciated town all around the World.

Thanks so much guys!

Maurizio
Hotel Manager

The discovery of Venetian villas in "veronese" plain

Living these wonderful days and the time to get a ride into the green and beautiful countryside in Verona. Riding between Venetian villas, ancient villages, rivers, canals, farms and fields of wheat, corn and tobacco is a good way to reconciliate with Nature. Here we show you one of the many routes you could find in the Verona plain: a not well known part of our region where you can wild nature crosses fields worked by farmes.

Take a little rest in September and enjoy the calm and silence of veronese plain.

Maurizio

Montemezzi Staff

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"Letters to Juliet" carries Verona to the World

The love story between Romeo & Juliet is living another time in the new romantic movie entirely pictured in Verona last year: "Letters to Juliet"!
The movie is coming soon in all Italian cinemas at the end of this month and it have already been seen from the people of U.S. and England in July 2010. It is going to be a really block buster and bring Verona and its beautiful landscapes all around the World.
So guys, discover our beautiful town and all its treasures watching "Letters to Juliet" at the cinema and then come to our land to live personally the most famous Love Story.
Watch the official HD trailer and gain more information about your trip to Verona through http://www.hotelmontemezzi.it/.

Visiting RDA Koeln Fair to keep in touch with World

Last week our Sales&Marketing Staff visited the RDA Koeln fair in Colon, the most important group and coach operators exhibition in Germany.
We spent two days meeting our best cooperators and discovering new interesting relationships.
Keep in touch with the World of tourism is the best way to promote Verona and its province.
Have an intensive work with our customers and partners to join all the skills and resources to offer the best experience and facilities to people who want to come to our beautiful town.

This is the beliving of Montemezzi hotel Staff: Keep in touch with the World!!!

Maurizio
Montemezzi Crew

Your holiday in August: special discount if you choose the right days!

We select a number of special days in which we ensure the Best Internet Rate if you book through our Official Web site!
Do not give up your vacations, we offer you the possibility to visit one fo the most famous art city in Italy
with a very special price.

Maurizio

Montemezzi hotel Staff

New Tools on Montemezzi Blog

Hi to everyone!

Some new tools have been added today in our blog.
Become a FOLLOWER and keep in touch everytime with our
news and offers.
Wacth VIDEOS ON ANIMOTO and discover the highlight in Verona and its beautiful province: Opera season, local party called "sagre", the Garda Lake with is impressive landscape and so on...
Through JUST.IN TV we are going to stream all the events, special dinners and everyday life of our "small invisible town".

See you soon :-)

Maurizio

Montemezzi blog is now on-line

Hi Guys!

The Montemezzi hotel blog is now on-line.
Another tool to keep in touch with our guest, discover your opinion, share all experience in Verona, its beautiful sorroundings and parks.

Let's follow us in this new experience...we hope it could be great ;-)

Maurizio
Hotel Manager