Castle Wedding Guide

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Brown overlooks Castle, from above the Gulf of Tigullio, the seafaring village of Portofino, one of the most beautiful and famous places in the world, Which has become, since the 1950s, the symbol of the Dolce Vita, and has always been Attracting artists , intellectuals, noblemen, kings and simple travelers, among Which Nietzsche, Hesse, Wagner, Kandinsky, Freud, Hemingway, D’Annunzio, Guy de Maupassant, Guglielmo Marconi and Richard the Lionheart.

Brown Castle, with its rich mediterrenean garden of flowers, pegolas and rose gardens together with a breathtaking view over the bay, is a museum with bas-reliefs and revivalist architectural features in marble and slate, “Cuenca majolica tiles, with painted tiles lacunars , lumbardy cross vaults, a great triptych from the Sixteenth Century Attributed to Raffaellino and Giulio De Rossi (1514-1572 / 1551-1591) and a figured carved marble architrave from the Thriteenth century.

Castle Brown is also a venue for art exhibitions and private events.

Services for Privates and Companies

The enchanting setting of Castle Brown, 200 square meters with a panoramic terrace from Which you will enjoy one of the most breathtaking views in the world, overlooking the Portofino Bay and the Gulf of Tigullio, with its ancient rooms on two floors and the other verdant terrace facing the mountains, is the ideal place for the highly prestigious organization of private events, such as gala evenings, wedding receptions, company meetings, presentations and ceremonies.

Sumptuous dinners or simple refreshments, wine and cheese tastings and much more can be organized on the lookout terraces and in the Castle Rooms.
Upon request, we will provide entertainment, flower decorations, dj sets and anything else that is necessary to make your events unique and unforgettable.

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WEDDINGS

Castle Brown can be used for the celebration of weddings and for the organization of the wedding receptions. The romantic and evocative setting of Castle Brown, from Which you can enjoy a unique view, allow you to hold – in the verdant terraces with amazing views over the bay and on the mountains, and in the ancient rooms of the castle – a prestigious reception That will never be forgotten.

PRIVATE PARTIES AND CEREMONIES

Castle Brown is also ideal for private parties for the celebration of anniversaries, graduations, birthdays, gala evenings and so on, with the possibility to organize standing or seated dinners, refreshments and tastings.

COMPANY MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS

Thank to bright, well lit, and cabled Climatized rooms, Castle Brown is the ideal location for conventions, conferences, company meetings and commercial communication events, with standing or seated dinners or refreshments.

TELEVISION AND MOVIE FILMING – PHOTO SHOOTS – FASHION SHOWS

Brown’s castle interiors and beautiful terraces can be the set of photo shoots, fashion shows and television / cinema, as for the film “Enchanted April”, filmed entirely at Castle Brown, winner of two Golden Globes and nominated for three Oscars in 1992.

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Federico Fellini. Between Cinema and Dream

Munus, The Portofino Municipality grant, up to year 2014, for the management of Castle Brown, is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition “Federico Fellini. Between Cinema and Dream.

The exhibition, Which represents one of the leading cultural events in the Liguria Region during the summer of 2009, will give the chance to discover new elements of Federico Fellini’s dreamlike universe: “Night Tales” contained in the famous Book of Dreams “together with” cinematographic drawings “, from Which the director found inspiration for many of his world-famous feature films.

The dreams presented in this exhibition belong mainly to the Sixties, the years during Which Fellini started his relationship with Bernhard, the Jungian psychoanalyst who advised him to fix his dreamy fantasies on paper and who in fact contributed to the drafting of the Book of Dreams. That dreamlike dimension Which had since then become central in his creative activity, as seen in many of his works from those years and, in particular, 8 ½, a masterpiece from 1963, where dream and reality are superimposed on one another till they mingle. Fellini will never give up this interpretative key, hence his dreams, carried out with the skills of a figurative artist, not only have to undisputed aesthetic value, but they also help us understand the deepest meanings of his poetics.

The exhibition brings together a number of drawings in open order slipped into the pages of the two original parts of the Book of Dreams, The storyboards from the Dream of the Chinese carried out in 1971, but Which refers to a dream told in 1960 from at least three different ways, the dreamlike fantasies of a she-friend revised by the director’s creativeness and turned into images and then glued by the same woman into some kind of Diary . It is well known that Fellini had an interest over his friends’ dreams and that he urged them to tell him about. If, as leading Italian film critic Tullio Kezich says, the Book of Dreams represents “the most authentic and personal” part of his filmography, this unique comparison between the graphic revisions that Fellini himself carried out by his making the dreams of others can allow us to take a further step towards the understanding of Fellini’s art.

Furthermore, the drawings Which inspired films such as Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), Casanova (1976), The City of Women (1980), E La Nave Va (1983), La Voce della Luna (1990), and related to the honorary Oscar given to him in 1993.

The exhibition is enriched with some videos: 8 ½ and a sequence from the episode named The Temptation of Dr. Antonio da Boccaccio ‘70, Strictly connected with the material on show and with Fellini’s dream world.

Castle Brown Contact information / Location

Castle Brown
Way to the Peninsula 13
16034 Portofino (Genova)

Tel: 334.5875878
Email: info@castellobrown.com