Italy

Bari | Bologna | Fierenze (Florence) | Milano | Parma | Pinerolo | Pisa | Rome (Roma) | Soragna - (nr. Parma) |Torino (Turin) | Vigevano | Venezia (Venice)

National Organisations
Nonno Poldo
This is a new initiative, the first in Italy I think, to support older gay men to find friends, discuss about their problems, publish articles, collaborate to a mailing list, etc.

Bari

Cinema
Salottino (movie theatre)
Via Stoppelli 10
Tel: 080-5583427 - far from downtown, in the midst of a dark suburb but it's possible to get there with a single bus (9, 18 or 26). It's a small xxrated movie theatre where you can find mature excited men. The down part is that nothing can really be done inside ('cos of an hysteric manager and the small space available) Animals, though, look very interesting. Heart beating space...

Bologna

Cinema
Actor's Studio
Via Corticella 56
11am - 12pm
Tel: 379 096

Sauna/Baths
Cosmos Club
Via Boldrini 22 int. 16 (courtyard)
Sun-Fri 12pm - 1.30am
Tel: 25 58 90
5 minutes from main railway station. Through iron gate. Look for green light over bell.

Fierenze (Florence)
Bar/Club
Crisco
Crisco is exclusively male and draws a mixed younger and older crowd of men looking to cruise and dance. Set in an eighteenth-century building, the club has a bar and a dancefloor, as well as a dark room and plenty of dimly-lit corners and nooks for you to get to know your date a little better without causing too much of a stir. There are regular drag shows and male strippers to keep you entertained at weekends.

Cinema
Arleccino
Via de' Bardi 47 (bus 23)
Gray 60%, Admirers 15% Rent/Hustlers 5%, Music 2, Cruise 10!!! Elegance 1!!
Reporters Commnets 11/00 "I visited this theater twice; once on a Friday evening at 11:00pm. There was about 4 people there and they ended up closing a little early (at 11:30pm). I returned on Saturday at 5:00pm and it was incredible. There were tons of older Italians who were happy to oblige anything you wanted. The place is a one-room movie theatre (quite large) with two balconies full of action and a large dark open area in the back with a lot going on in the shadows... The only complaint is that as soon as you find a hot older man there is really no option for any privacy or exclusivity with one person. They all smoke there so bring the clothes you want to smell like smoke.

Cinema Aldebaran (ex CG)
Via Francesco Baracca 151, Florence
Porn Cinema.
Mixed, mostly over 50s. Just stand along the back wall or sit in a quieter corner and you will be approached

Milano
Bar/Club

Club/Disco
Nuova Idea International
30,v. de castillia - (metro Gioia)
Tel. +39 02 690 7859
Gray - 60%, Admirers 15% , Rent/hustlers 5%, Music level 7, Cruise Factor 8,
Elegance Factor 8
Thursday, Friday, Sunday from 9.30pm-2.30am - Saturdays and Holidays from
9.30pm-03.00am

For the disco:
1st hall (Gray 80% admirer 20% rent 1% music 8 cruise 9 (there are couples
also but doesn't matter....) elegance 8)
2nd hall : (Gray.10% admirer. 10% rent. 20% music 9 cruise 9 elegance 6)

2 dance halls one disco with a lot of young people and spots of older and 1
with orchestra playing live FULL of older people; Busy on Saturday nights
some people on Friday and nobody on Sunday. It's very popular, travesti also
During Holidays there's a "special event" i.e. Xmas-New Year's day-Carnival
each time full up. Entrance 29.000 L. drink included.
(16.000 on Fridays ; on Thursdays there are shows)

Restaurant

Due Amici Restaurant
Via Borsieri 5
Closed Wednesday
A sort of "after disco" eating place. Nice garden, expensive, average food.

La Risotteria
Via Dandolo 2
20100 Milano (MI)
Phone: (02)55181694;
Specialises in risotto dishes, good food, nice atmosphere, cakes
08:00PM - 11:00PM, closed on Sun.

Sauna
Teddy Sauna Club

Parma
Beaches/Cruising Areas
Spiaggia del Taro - a beach near the river -all year especially on Spring Summer-
(Gray 40% Admirer.30% Rent 0% Music 0. Cruise10. Elegance 0)

Giardino Ducale - In this historic garden on spring and summer only there is a lot of older guys from 6-7 till 1 (when garden close) and you' ve just only to sit there and wait...a lot of bicycles will come near you....absolutely not on Autumn and Winter because the garden closes at 8p.m.)
(Gray 40% Admirer 15% Rent 2% Music 1 Cruise. 7 Elegance. 5) obviously you have to be very discreet...

Pinerolo
This place is a little difficult to reach
First of all the town is a spot for people love to ski and is obviously better on Autumn- Winter - Pinerolo is 20-30km. from Torino/Turin

The Break
Corso Torino 18
Open Saturday night (?other days).
Family owned...or something like that...the environment is really familiar ; it's under a gallery and there's no signs....it is in centre of Pinerolo and you've got to go into a yard....and you never imagine that up there is a gay disco (!).
Gray 20% Admirer15% Rent ? Music 7. Cruise 9. Elegance 8

Pisa
Cinema
Mignon
Lungarno Paccinotti 23 (on the gallery)
Older guys. Some hustlers/rent

Rome (Roma)
Bar
Max's Bar
Via Achille Grandi 7/a
Tel: 70 30 50 99
Mixed Ages. Underneath Hotel Grandi
Gray 50%, Admirer 50%, Elegance 7, Music 7(Disco 9), Cruise 6

Sauna
Sauna Apollion
Via Mecenate, 59/A
Tel. 064825389
(say hello to Lino the nice silverfox at the entrance!)

San Martino Relax
Corso San Martino 8 (Near Porta Susa Railway Station)
3pm - 9pm, closed Tue
Tel: 53 37 94
Grey 60% Admirer 35 % Cruise 10
tv and blue movie room. The steam room can contain a maximum of 3 people
Finnish sauna, relax beds and darkrooms here and there.

Europa Multiclub (Via Aureliana 40; +39-06/482-3650; ; open Sun-Thu 2 p.m.-midnight, Fri-Sat 2 p.m.-6 a.m.)
On the 3 floors of this bathhouse you’ll find a gym, whirlpool, sauna, solarium and private rooms. Massages are also offered. Pleasant and clean, it attracts men of all ages and quite a few Americans (it’s three blocks from the U.S. Embassy) as well as locals and other Europeans. Quite a few body-builders. The attached bar, Alcatraz, has a leather night on the last Saturday of the month.

Terme di Roma (Via Persio 4; +39-06/718-4378; www.termediroma.org)
This popular bathhouse has a small labyrinth, a bar and enough gym equipment to keep you busy. Saturday is Bear day. The place isn’t to be confused with the large public bathhouse of the same name.

Restaurant
Ristorante Asinocotto di Giuliano Brenna
Via dei Vascellari, 48, Trastevere
Tel: 06-589 89 85
Lunch and Dinner
Very mixed crowd. Music 0, Elegance 5
A great new restaurant, gay owned, in the heart of Rome. Brilliant young chef Giuliano Brenna. Web site has pictures of menu items, and descriptions.
Report 12/01: "Recommended"

Cinema
Blue Moon
Via Quattro Cantoni 53 (Metro Cavour)
Older guys. Some hustlers/rent North Africans

Blue Movies
v. Montebello near the central station If you could ever be interested in '70 atmosphere with the owner walking through the rows calling the gay clientele (99 % of the total ) to follow a polite behaviour
Gray 70% Admirer 20%

Cinema Avori
Via Macerata (Gray factor 40% or more)
Less crowded than the above but the owners let people do anything they want..... again the best time is in the afternoon.

Soragna - (near Parma)
Andromeda disco
5 Via Gramsci
Tel: 69 213
Autostrada Milano-Bologna exit Fidenza
It 's a nice disco with garden
Gray 20% Admirer 30% Rent 0% Music 7 Cruise 7 Elegance. 8

Torino (Turin)
Cinemas
Alexandra
Via Sacchi 18
Older guys. Hustlers/rent North Africans

Major
Largo Guilio Cesare 105
Older guys. Some hustlers/rent

Roma Blue
Via San Donato 40
Older guys. Hustlers/rent North Africans

Sauna/Baths
San Martino Relax
Corso San Martino 8 (Near Porta Susa Railway Station)
3pm - 9pm, closed Tue
Tel: 53 37 94
Mixed Ages

Vigevano
Beaches/Cruising Areas

River Ticino - beach all year long - 30 km. from Milano - nudism on Spring & Summer -
Gray. 30% Admirer.10% Rent10% Music 0 Cruise 9 Elegance 0

Venice (Venezia)
Bar
Al Miracoli
Campiello sei Miracoli nr. 6075 (vaporette- Ca' d'Oro/Rialto) 7pm - 12am, Closed Tue
Tel: 523 06 16
A very relaxing romantic atmosphere. A must for lovers of classical music....... Mixed Ages