When you first come to the Bellagio, the first think you will notice is the dancing fountains in the front of the resort. This free show of music, lights, and water, will surely thrill and even entrance you.

Hotel

The Bellagio has 3,933 guest rooms and suites in the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning hotel. Whether you are someone looking for a simple room to take a break from the tables or something more refined, you can find it at the Bellagio.

The Bellagio’s standard guest rooms will rival many standard 4 and 5 star hotel chain rooms. They offer twice daily housekeeping, Italian marble tubs with a glass enclosed shower, automatic draperies, mini-bar, and even a work station with high speed internet and multi-line phone.

If you want something more elegant, you can check out the suites of Bellagio. They offer nine different styles of suites ranging from simple all the way to their Presidential suite. The Presidential suite includes a 24 hour butler service, outdoor solarium, private elevator access, and a formal dining room.

For the ultimate experience, check out the Villas at Bellagio. These 6,500 to 8,000 square foot Villas feature their own workout room, massage room, a dry sauna, private kitchen, fully stocked bar, two bedrooms, his and hers bathrooms, and 24 hour butler service.

Casino

Once you are ready to try your luck out at the tables, Bellagio offers one of the best casino experiences in all of Las Vegas. Whether you like to play slot machines, blackjack, or try your hand at some poker, you can find it all at Bellagio.

The Bellagio poker room is the largest rooms in Vegas and offers some of the highest limits in the United States for poker. Bellagio is also the home of the history Bobby’s Room. Named after former WSOP Champion and Poker Hall of Famer Bobby Baldwin, this room serves as host to highest poker stakes in live poker.

If horse racing or sports betting is your thing, check out the race and sports books. There are 150 screen total with 99 individual racing monitors. Bellagio also offers all of the standard table games that you would expect to find in a casino. You can play blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, three card poker, Pai Gow poker, Let it Ride, and Pai Gow.

For those that want to experience high stakes gambling at Bellagio outside of the poker room, check out Club Prive. This is Bellagio’s high limit lounge. The club allows players to experience high stakes gambling in relative privacy and offers them a speakeasy-style bar for their added enjoyment.

Entertainment

If you are not a gambler, or you want a break from the tables, the Bellagio offers numerous amenities and entertainment options. The Bellagio offers one of the most inviting pools in all of Las Vegas complete with a garden vista cafe, private cabanas, and even poolside massage.

For art enthusiasts, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is a must see on your visit. If you are looking for a game of golf, the Bellagio offers you the opportunity to play at their Shadow Creek course. The course was designed by Tom Fazio and offers some of the best scenery in all of Vegas. Those that choose to play at the course receive limousine transportation to the course as well as a personal caddie for their round of golf.

Cirque du Soleil offers daily performances of their timeless production “O”. It is an “aquatic tapestry of artistry, surrealism, and theatrical romance”. It is complete with world-class acrobats, divers, and synchronized swimmers. It is an experience reminiscent of a European opera house.

If you are more of a night owl, the Bellagio has a hopping nightlife. The Fontana bar is nestled beside the 8 acre lake of Bellagio and serves as a great spot to watch the dancing fountains. This club offers some of the best entertainment and has a huge dance floor.

Other options for nightlife include The Bank, Caramel, the Baccarat Bar, the Pool Bar, and the Petrossian Lounge.  The Petrossian Lunge is one of the best hotels bars in America according to Sante Magazine. If you have ever wanted to experience European flavor mixed with the old school feel provided by live piano music, this is the place to go.

Food and Shopping

Regardless of your tastes of pallets, you can find something at Bellagio. If you are looking for something light or are in a hurry, you can check out the Cafe Gelato, the Cafe Bellagio, or even the Bellagio Buffet.

If fine dining is more your style, check out Jasmine’s lake-view restaurant, or even the Prime Steakhouse. If you prefer to take in the outdoors while dining, you can check out the outdoor options at Picasso, Olives, or even the Pool Cafe. Overall, the are dozens of options available at the Bellagio with something for everyone.

If shopping is more your thing, you have several options. With Bellagio at Home, you can purchase items that you see at the hotel that you can integrate into your own home. Via Bellagio and Vio Fiore are fashion and home decor stores that are the epitome of style and elegance. If you want to remember your Cirque du Soleil experience from the Bellagio, check out the Cirque du Soleil store. Finally, take a stroll in the pool promenade for more selection of items.

As you can see, the Bellagio is much more than just slots and roulette. It is a full service luxury resort that can really be described as more of an experience than a destination.
Whether you are returning to Vegas for fun, or going for your first time, give the Bellagio Resort and Casino a visit. You will not be disappointed.

“During the visit to the Maybach Manufaktur of Sindelfingen, I had the inspiration to create tho iconographic pictures conveying the same seducing and dynamic attraction of the Maybach itself”, said LaChapelle.

It was love at first sight since the last spring and it was expressed through a series of pictures whose subjects are the limited edition of the Zeppelin and its ancestor from the 1930s, the Zeppelin DS8, immortalized in the surreal and sensual atmosphere characteristic of the American photographer.

The shots, “Exposure of luxury” and “Berlin stories”, have been presented on the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach in early December 2009.

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“Only two months before the second Abu Dhabi Yacht Show, the news that this elite event will move to the wonderful Yas Marina, on Yas Island, will allow us to show to the world all the top infrastructures for spare time that are in evolution in the territory of our emirate.
Yas Island is a perfect location for the event because it features many harbours” said his Excellence Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, President of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, main sponsor of Abu Dhabu Yacht Show, and President of ADNEC (Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center).

Moving to Yas Marina, featuring many docking and mooring structures and a significant number of slots, was necessary due to the need of a huge quay capable to host a bigger edition of the boat show. The latter focuses especially on superyachts and megayachts. The success of the first edition, whose sales reached the value of over 100 million dollars, lets us forecast opportunities for first class business.

The new location is more than adequately equipped to handle the growing number of exhibitors and the number of yachts that will enter the show 2010. The program of the exhibition has been improved and strengthened and they are trying to create the ideal atmosphere to encourage meetings, business and the global interaction among the guests, exhibitors, visitors and potential buyers.

Taking place under the aegis of His Excellence Sheikn Mohammed Bin Zayed Bin Al Nayhan, hereditary prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy captain in chief of the Armed Force of the United Arab Emirates, the show is seen as a fundamental element to crystallize the growing reputation of Abu Dhabi as a nautical destination at an international level.

Among the exhibitors Soraya Yachts, Rodriguez, Platinum Yachts, Perini Navi, Fincantieri Yacht.

www.abudhabiyachtshow.com

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From March 25 to 28, at the Palazzo della Permanente on Via Turati, Milan, ESXENCE – The Scent of Excellence, comes back. An event dedicated to artistic perfumery.

The sector represents a creative activity that gathers history, communication, desire to convey emotions, memoirs, moments, situations. In Italy, is has reached quite a relevant dimension, both in terms of income and in terms of committed distributors and passionate retailers. It has appealed many international operators thanks to a model that respects both quality parameters and distributive-commercial needs.

Esxence – The Scent of Excellence stands as a candidate, for the second consecutive year, to be the international meeting dedicated to each and every brand operating in favour of the spectacular art of olfactory language that rises more and more to fundamental complement of style choices of whoever loves to stand out.

Esxence is conceived to be an international crossroad of opinions, experiences, suggestions, challenges and knowledge: it hosts original brands, as well as Italian and foreign brand distributors, welcoming, press apart, buyers, and Italian and foreign retailers.
Exposition areas and the internal decorations were studied so to value the peculiarities and the identities of each single brand, through a dressing that is rational, elegant and homogenous, so to highlight the preciousness of each single “product-actor”.

The event, for this second edition too, will offer a number of events and educational-informational activities, which will be spread throughout the four-day show, together with meetings and debates where operators of the sector will analyse the evolution of this niche market. Numerous will be the opportunities for whichever brand wishing to better promote its profile and latest news.

During the open days (upon invitation) to the public, experiential moments for discovering the fascinating Art of Perfume will take place.

March 25-28, 2010
Museo della Permanente
Via F.Turati, 34 – Milano
www.esxence.com/it/

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Born in the Seventies among the first international art fairs of modern and contemporary art in the world, the event, stage-managed by Silvia Evangelisti, proposes a wide range of works of art from the beginning of the Twentieth century until the most recent trends; 15000 s-m of exhibition, 200 Italian and international galleries, are only a few of the numbers of this new edition.

A unique occasion to discover popular masters like Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino Severini, together with the conceptual art of Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi and Vincenzo Agnetti, or the movements of informal art of Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri and Emilio Vedova; the Spatialism of Lucio Fontana and the Poor art of Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio – to whom the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna dedicates an important exhibition until 17th February 2010 – and the representative of the Italian Transvanguard.

Many of the works of art at the fair also offer a wider view on the international stage, with works by Antony Gormley, Wym Delvore, Per Barclay, Tony Ousler, Hans Peter Feldmann, Alfredo Jaar together with the most popular representatives of the English artistic movement like David Ockney, Gilbert&George and Tony Cragg, or the masters of photography like Thomas Russ, Anton Corbijn or Luigi Ghirri. There will also be a collection of works of artists coming from different geographical areas and investigating the state of being contemporary through the use of the most diverse artistic tools like those of the American performer Nick Cave, the installations of the Russian Peter Belvi or the material compositions of the Chinese Zhang Huan.

To the new trends, presented by the emerging Italian and international artists, is dedicated the section Young Galleries, where research galleries with under five years of experience exhibit their works with prices ranging from 500 to 10,000 euros, for collectors just getting close to art or for those who want to discover new talents.

Of course there will also be book launches, meetings and competitions.

For the second consecutive year the International Art Fair Art First dedicates the daily schedule to the theme of collecting: collectors and museum directors will debate on the interaction between private collections and museums and how they enter the Italian and international artistic stage. The goal is to stimulate a dialogue, by inviting also representatives and collectors of the Asia-pacific area due to the synergy with ShContemporary, the first contemporary art fair dedicated to the Asia-Pacific Area organized in Shanghai by the Group BolognaFiere.

The entire city of Bologna will be involved with exhibitions in museums, courts, buildings and streets of the old town. Bologna Art First, an exclusive town itinerary, is at its fifth edition and for the first time it is a project made in collaboration with Julia Draganovic. The project is conceived of as a single big collective town exhibition through a path among images of art and history and it presents from 29th January through the end of February 2010 a series of installations by artists working for the galleries taking part in the exhibition, in order to create a dialogue between contemporary art and unusual locations of the old town and surroundings.

For the third year Arte Fiera OFF will be the frame of several events like exhibitions, concerts, festivals that will take place in Bologna and Emilia Romagna during the Fair.

Saturday 30th January Art White Night turns the old town of Bologna in a big window of contemporary art with the extraordinary opening of museums, galleries, buildings, concerts and exhibitions.

www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it

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Cartier, Boucheron, Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels confirmed their presence.

Will follow AltaromaAltamoda from 31st January to 2ns February 2010.

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Eighty firms will take part in the Show Room consecrated to the home, with a single goal: to support the made in Italy carrying on the tradition of craftsmanship and the typical manufacture bond to the history of our country.

During this 88th edition there will be several moments thought of in order to proclaim, by enjoying food, the art of cooking and the quality of kitchen utensils, tools and accessorizes, necessary “instruments” through which the ingredients – along with the chef’s skills – turn into a memorable experience of the body and of the senses.

Alongside Regional Treats, a project dedicated to the regional cooking thought of to marvel the palate through the charm of a countryside story or of an old recipe, there will be interesting events organized by Macef in collaboration with Gambero Rosso.

The initiative will take the name of Cooking Show and will involve twenty participants per class.
Chef Luca Ogliotti, with an espert oenologist of Gambero Rosso, will direct these spectacular exhibitions. Each turn will last approximately two hours and the themes covered will be: Finger food, Veggie menu, Main courses of the Roman cuisine, Milk puddings and custards, If one evening at a sudden…, Today for tomorrow.

The program is the following:
Friday 15th at 11:00: Veggie Menu
Friday 15th at 15:00: Today for tomorrow
Saturday 16th at 11:00: Finger food
Saturday 16th at 15:00: If one evening at a sudden
Sunday 17th at 11:00: main courses of the Roman cuisine
Sunday 17th at 15:00: Milk puddings and custards

http://www.macef.it/
http://www.gamberorosso.it/

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From 16 to 19 January 2010, the Italian fashion capital will host the Milan Men’s Fashion edition, dedicated to autumn-winter 2010-2011 collections.
Either coloured or black&white, casual or elegant, accessories or minimal look, four days to discover all the previews dedicated to men.

Here the calendar of fashion shows:
Saturday, 16 January 2010
09,30 CARLO PIGNATELLI OUTSIDE – Via Turati, 34
10,30 ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA STAMPA – Via Savona, 56 A
11,15 ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA BUYER – Via Savona, 56 A
12,00 C.P. COMPANY – Via Savona, 54
13,00 COSTUME NATIONAL HOMME – Via Tortona, 58
15,00 JIL SANDER – Via Beltrami, 5
17,00 EMPORIO ARMANI – Via Bergognone, 59
18,00 BURBERRY PRORSUM – Via Melegari, 3
19,00 LES HOMMES – Via Meda, 24

Sunday, 17 January 2010
09,00 BOTTEGA VENETA – Via Privata Ercole Marelli, 6
10,00 FRANKIE MORELLO – Via Palermo, 10
11,00 GIANFRANCO FERRE’ – Via Pontaccio, 21
12,00 ROBERTO CAVALLI – Via Burigozzo, 2
13,00 SALVATORE FERRAGAMO – Piazza Affari, 6
14,00 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD – Via Turati, 34
15,00 NEIL BARRETT – Viale Alemagna, 6
16,00 GIULIANO FUJIWARA –  Via Pier Lombardo, 14
17,00 GAZZARRINI -  Via Burlamacchi, 1
18,00 PRADA – Via Fogazzaro, 36
19,00 JOHN VARVATOS – Corso Italia, 21

Monday, 18 January 2010
09,30 PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND – Via Clerici, 10
10,15 ENRICO COVERI – Via San Barnaba, 48
11,00 DIRK BIKKEMBERGS – Corso Italia, 58
12,00 GUCCI – Piazza Oberdan, 2/B
13,00 JOHN RICHMOND – Giardini di Porta Venezia – Via Palestro
14,00 ETRO – Via Piranesi, 14
15,00 BYBLOS – Viale Montenero, 55
16,00 CANALI – Via Savona, 56
17,00 VERSACE – Piazza Vetra, 1
18,00 MONCLER GAMME BLEU – Via Tortona, 58
19,00 ALEXANDER MCQUEEN – Via Thaon De Revel, 3
20,00 ALEXANDER MCQUEEN – Via Thaon De Revel, 3

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
10,00 DSQUARED2 – Corso Italia, 58
11,00 GIORGIO ARMANI BUYER – Via Bergognone, 59
12,00 GIORGIO ARMANI STAMPA – Via Bergognone, 59
13,00 ERMANNO SCERVINO – Via Manzoni, 37
15,00 ICEBERG – Via Palermo, 10
16,00 Z ZEGNA – Via Savona, 56 A

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This program is designed to develop diverse skills related to the particular operational, financial, marketing and product issues that impact strategic and business decisions in the luxury industry.

It has been developed considering the needs of professionals already employed in firms in the luxury industry who intend to boost their careers through a master’s degree and for those who intend to shift from their market to the luxury sector. The program is also intended for young talents wishing to develop their career within the luxury industry, who may choose to integrate the program with an internship within a luxury firm.

EMLUX is entirely taught in English by a conjoint international faculty of academics and professionals of the luxury industry.

Faculty: Economics
Level: First Level Master
Course Director: Roberta Crespi, Professor of Management
Start Date: March 2010
Course Length: 10 months (excluding August and December)
Attendance: 2 weekends per month, Friday and Saturday, from 9 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 7 pm
Campus: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy – Largo Gemelli and Via Carducci
CFU: 70
Number of Students: 30
Application Requirements: First or Second Level Degree from an accredited University, English proficiency certification
Language of Instruction: English
Teaching method: is based upon lessons, case analysis, completed by group work sessions and a project work coached by partner firms of the luxury industry.
Assessment: written and oral exams, group work, project work.
Tuition Fee: €9,000

Degree Structure: courses are articulated in 6 main areas and the program is completed by a project work; the 5 best project works will be rewarded and published by Luxgallery, EMLUX Media Partner.

Download the program

For further information:
master.emlux@unicatt.it
www.unicatt.it/EMLUX
Tel +39 02.7234 2665

The main purpose of the event is to reverse the rules of the current fairs system by putting a special emphasis on those works of art that will come through fashion and compromises.
Nowadays galleries and fairs have become a real business market, hardly characterized by exclusiveness and rather focused on the importance of the artist’s name rather than on the specific value of the artistic emotional impact.

We decided to give prominence to painting, introducing nine very different artists. The event aims to demonstrate that even in the contemporary art scene there is still an ongoing painting knowledge, although contemporary art seems exclusively focused on important and popular names and on being provocative.

The ideal venue for this event is the Spazio Pergolesi 8, former TV studio, now White Cultural Cube.

The artists called together for this first event are nine. Angelo Cruciani has been going through a spiritual path for years that begins from the character of Christ through the Street art Operations until social exhibitions. Alberto Garbati is a popular fashion director and an artist at the same time. He has worked for years on the figurative-material vision of the metropolis. Gatto Nero, writer of the Old School of Milan, is an international protagonist of the Street Art with over twenty years of experience. Pietro Geranzani is a painter searching for an obscure reality expressed through paintings full of uneasiness and of psychological shadows. Fabio Inverni, instead, followed the strand of hyper realism. Walter Ladislao came to the world of fashion in the seventies and since he has carried on a long relationship with Gianni Versace. In 2000 his great passion for painting led him to tackle a deep analysis of the colour bringing up its utmost emotional and expressive potential. Luca Lillo is an example of artist who went from Graphics to Contemporary Art. Technology and soul found a aesthetic and conceptual compromise in his works of art, that counter childlike intimity with the future. Salvatore Melillo gets lost in torment and in the deforming expression of the image to entrap the reality that often only one’s sensibility can bring into focus. Eventually, Roberto Silvestrini Garcia combines the manga with sacred iconography.

Milan Art Affairs Special Event
By Hamilton Moura Fiho and Grace Zanotto
11-12-13th December 2009
Spazio Pergolesi
Via Pergolesi, 8 – Milan
Phone: +39 02 66986054
milanartaffairs@email.it

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With a new production of the Milan Theatre, the opéra-comique will be staged in four acts by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy that was played for the first time in Paris on 3rd March 1875.

Daniel Barenboim’s baton will conduct the Orchestra and Choir of the Scala Theatre and top soloists like Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Anita Rachvelishvili, Adriana Damato.
The direction and costumes are by Emma Dante, the setting is by Richard Peduzzi and the lights by Dominique Bruguière. The coral director is Bruno Casoni.

The opera will be on stage also on 4th December, in a preview dedicated to youngsters, and on 10th, 13th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 23rd December 2009.

Infotel 02 72 00 37 44

http://www.teatroallascala.org/

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It was inaugurated in Rome on 2nd December 2009 the White Gallery, the very first big lifestyle store of the capital, dedicated to fashion, food, design, art and fragrances. An enchanting venue where luxury and excellence rule, starting from the very structure of the store.

Andromeda presents Fluxus, a wavering Murano glass sculpture created to adorn White Gallery. The sculpture originated from the collaboration between artist Michela Vianello, whose inspiration gave concrete shape to the overall concept of the sculpture, and designer Karim Rashid, who designed the Knit – individual hand-made glass element.

“Knit – stated Karim Rashid – for Andromeda is a system I designed of hand-made Murano glass loops that can be woven together from a few to thousands to create endless configurations of delicate ornate glass chandeliers and lighting. Our living spaces and objects should ideally be organic, transformable, flexible and allow objects and furniture to breathe,  to shape the personality of the space. And knit is the fabric of light itself, to forever keep space dynamic, luxurious, and inspiring.”

Fluxus covers a surface area of 60 sq metres, using 42,000 handmade glass Knit elements in 5 colors. The lighting is provided by 5000 punctiform micro lights distributed on the internal surface of the wave.

The White Gallery was conceived to be a contemporary art gallery, stretching over a surface of 5000 sq metre where fashion, design, art, books, music, technology and food will interpret the news and cultural contaminations proper of contemporary lifestyles.

Fluxus is “in charge” of expressing the meaning and identity of the place, through the apparent flow of a structure that seems to be a fabric.
“The challenge – stated Michela Vianello, author of the work of art – consisted in imagining myself as an element and being carried away by a rhythm in an optical, and overall dreamy space, where negative and positive, black and white, would make me move around through a grey area as if it were a pause in an endless journey.”

White Gallery
Piazza G.Marconi, 18/19 Rome (EUR)
info@whitegallery.it
www.whitegallery.it

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