Mercato Albinelli, Modena
Modena’s covered market opened in 1931 under a light iron roof, with Graziosi’s bronze fruit-seller fountain at its heart — a Liberty hall that is still the…
Modena’s covered market opened in 1931 under a light iron roof, with Graziosi’s bronze fruit-seller fountain at its heart — a Liberty hall that is still the…
The French architect Eugène Ferret won a competition to build Sanremo a Kursaal and opened it in January 1905 — a Liberty palace of gaming and concerts, the…
Montecatini’s grandest hotel began in 1870 as a promise — La Pace, peace — and became, after 1901, a Liberty showcase: Bernardini’s architecture and Galileo…
Roncegno’s Palace Hotel drew Central Europe’s aristocracy to a Trentino valley for the iron-and-arsenic cure. Destroyed in the First World War and rebuilt in…
Sciacca gave Sicily’s oldest cure a modern home between 1928 and 1938 — a Liberty thermal complex in a hillside park, crowned by the Grand Hotel delle Terme…
Levico’s Grand Hotel Imperial went up around 1900, when a Berlin company turned a Trentino valley into an Austro-Hungarian spa. The name still fits: it was…
Garibaldi Burba’s Palazzo della Fonte opened in 1913 above the springs of Fiuggi, a Liberty grand hotel built for the European cure-takers who made the town…
Giovenale designed Fiuggi’s Grand Hotel as a single building for a single purpose — to entertain the spa: hotel, theatre and gaming rooms under one Liberty…
The hotel that gave Salsomaggiore its skyline opened in 1901 to Luigi Broggi’s Liberty design, then grew in the 1920s into a fantasy of Moorish and Japanese…
Squadrelli finished the Casino in 1907 and gave San Pellegrino a richly decorated Liberty interior — Mazzucotelli’s ironwork, gilded stucco and a gaming hall…