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Hotel Majestic
Passeig de Gracia, 68
08007 Barcelona
Rising above the art galleries, designer shops and famed cultural attractions of the Passeig de Gracia, the Hotel Majestic has graced Barcelona's modern district for 85 years, and now stands as one of the city's most prestigious addresses. Behind the hotel's striking neoclassical façade waits an interior brimming with contemporary art and the high-tech conveniences demanded by today's luxury traveler.
The tasteful renovations of all 303 units into sophisticated and stylish guest rooms, including 21 spacious Junior Suites and 8 luxurious suites have recently been completed. A roof-top swimming pool, bar and solarium afford the ultimate panoramic views where guests can relax with a sauna, steam bath or massage after a visit to the fitness center. Hotel Majestic has long welcomed royalty and celebrities, and is also a favored business meeting address in its elegantly refurbished and top-of-the-line facilities, with a variety of venues that accommodate up to 500. One of the city's most elegant addresses, Hotel Majestic has fortified its reputation with the Drolma restaurant, awarded by Michelin star in 2002, where guests will discover a world of tastes and culinary sensations of Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Apsis Gran Ronda
Ronda de Sant Antoni, 49
08010 Barcelona
The hotel is located right in the center of the city next to the Plaça Catalunya, Ramblas and Passeig de Gràcia. It has 65 rooms, totally new and totally equipped with conditioned air, television with plasma screen, minibar, hair dryer and safe-deposit box, direct telephone. Wifi access in all the hotel. Also it has restaurant and service of reception the 24 hours.
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Hotel Advance
Sepulveda 180
08011 Barcelona
4-stars hotel located in Barcelona's commercial and bussiness center. Only 3 minutes away from Plaça Catalunya, Las Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia. 15 minutes far from the Montjuïc Fair. The hotel is located in a historical building in the famous "Eixample" area. It has been completely rehabilitated with a decorators team that had given this hotel a very remarkable design.
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Turism | History
Ancona -- Turism
Our knowledge of the early peoples of the Marche is hazy and often draws from the unreliable writings of later Roman historians. The most important of the tribes who first inhabited the region in any numbers were the Piceni, who lived on the eastern seaboard of the Marche. Up in the mountains their place was taken by the Umbri tribes who also dwelt in the neighbouring region now know as Umbria. Both tribes have left us few relics of their passage. Only with the Etruscans do we find early inhabitants who left their mark on Italian history but their influence in the Marche was marginal.
With the expulsion in 509 BC of Tarquinius Superbus, the last of the Etruscan monarchs, the new Republic of Rome gradually began to make its presence felt. Already weakened by attacks from the Greek colonists in southern Italy and by Celtic inroads from the north, the Etruscans soon came under the sway of Rome. The beginning of the end was marked by the Roman conquest of the Etruscan city of Veio in 396 BC.
With the construction of the great highways such as the Via Flaminia, Roman dominion across Italy was consolidated. Under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, the Marche was divided - the northern stretches formed part of the Roman Umbria, while the south was known as Picenum.
In AD 476, Rome, already weakened by the split between the Western and Eastern Empires and the first forays by Goths and Vandals from the north, finally fell to the barbarian warrior Odoacer. His reign as the first King of Italy was short-lived, however, with the arrival in 489 of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, who established a 33-year rule of relative tranquility in Italy.
On his death, the Eastern Emperor Justinian in Constantinople tried to revive imperial power in Italy through his celebrated generals Belisarius and Narses. Although they finally managed to topple the Gothic King Totila in 552 the deciding battle took place at the Furlo Gorge in the Marche, central Italy was in no fit state to resist yet another invasion from the north, this time from the Lombards in 568.
For 200 years these warriors from the Danube valley held loose control over much of central Italy, ruling from Lucca and Spoleto. Only in the northern Marche and part of Umbria did the Byzantine powers manage to keep a toehold under the protection of the Exarchate of Ravenna.
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