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Taverna is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy. It is located at the feet of the Sila mountain range. People
In the first period, around 1590, Ottavio Acquaviva commissioned the decoration of the rooms on the main floor, which were completed by 1612. These rooms are now believed to be the work of Agostino Ciampelli (1565–1630), who depicted the villa with paintings of rural life and rustic scenes. The second period corresponds to ownership by the ...
Diagram of a typical Roman domus, with a taberna on each side of the entrance. A taberna (pl.: tabernae) was a type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.Originally meaning a single-room shop for the sale of goods and services, tabernae were often incorporated into domestic dwellings on the ground level flanking the fauces, the main entrance to a home, but with one side open to the street.
Palazzo Taverna is a palace in Rome, located on the Via di Monte Giordano and first built under orders of Cardinal Giordano Orsini, who wished to turn his ancient castle on the Monte Giordano [] into a residence.
Panzanella, Italian salad of soaked stale bread, onions and tomatoes; Polenta, a porridge made with the corn left to Italian farmers so that land holders could sell all the wheat crops, still a popular food; Pumpernickel, a traditional dark rye bread of Germany, made with a long, slow (16–24 hours) steam-baking process, and a sour culture
Though intended to convey a "rustic" simplicity, the finish is highly artificial, and the faces of the stones often carefully worked to achieve an appearance of a coarse finish. [ 2 ] Rustication was used in ancient times, but became especially popular in the revived classical styles of Italian Renaissance architecture and that of subsequent ...
Aperitivo: 4 to 5 p.m.; aperitivo is defined as a drink before a meal, one meant in Italian custom to prime the stomach for culinary delights Dinner: 5 to 10 p.m., with the bar open late
The word trattoria is cognate with the French term traiteur [3] (a caterer providing takeaway food). Derived in Italian from trarre, meaning 'to treat' (from the Latin tractare / trahere, 'to draw'), [4] its etymology has also been linked to the Latin term littera tractoria, which referred to a letter ordering provision of food and drink for officials traveling on the business of the Holy ...