But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

Tra i celebri racconti di Ernest Hemingway ,il grande scrittore e giornalista statunitense, c’é anche quello che racconta di un breve soggiorno alla Spezia…

Erano gli anni venti,una domenica ed era privmavera...

Scrive l’autore:  “Arrivammo alla Spezia e cercammo un posto per mangiare. Le strade erano larghe e le case alte e gialle.”

Heminngway  racconta del “pranzo alla Spezia” in una trattoria che avra' avuto i profumi del nostro mare…chissa' in quale vicolo del nostro bellissimo centro cittadino…

Ed e’ proprio qui ,in pieno centro, che troverete il nostro hotel..ed e’ proprio da qui che potrete iniziare un bellissimo viaggio alla scoperta di questa affascinate citta’ piena di storia e che fara’

“rumore” nel vostro cuore…