Events and Exhibitions in Rome
Great news for all strawberry lovers: the strawberry festival in Nemi! The Nemi strawberry festival is held each year in June. Nemi is near Rome in the Albani hills: it overlooks the beautiful Nemi lake. This lake was also called ‘Mirror of Diana’, due to its special beauty. The strawberries grow wild in [...]
Wandering in Rome is a wonderful experience. But what about wandering underground? No, it’s not a joke, until June the 5th you can have the chance to access to some of the hidden treasure of Rome, some invisible ruins which are “six feet under” the nowadays roman soil. This third edition of “Roma nascosta“ offers [...]
An exhibition about the many faces of power in the ancient Rome started in March at the Musei Capitolini and will continue to September. It focuses on ancient Roman portraits, which include heads, busts and full-length statues. Public monuments alternate with the portraits of honorable and illustrious ancestors in private houses. Images, images [...]
From May 19th to June 23rd 2011 the tenth edition of ‘Letterature’ will be held in Rome. After the great success of the other nine editions of the festival, this important literary event will be held next month in Rome. It attracts successful writers from different parts of the world. The authors produce unpublished [...]
The Coppa Italia is the annual Cup competition of the Italian football association (FIGC) which has its final chapter at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. In the last six years the final game was contested five times by Internazionale and AS Rome, with the team of northern Italy leading with 3 victories. Only in the [...]
On 12th April the exhibition Nero was inaugurated in Rome. It takes place in 5 different sites but essentially in the Forum, the Colosseum and the Palatine Museum. The exhibition shows the many faces of the cruel emperor and is an attempt to rehabilitate him and to give a wider examination of this figure. [...]
Would you like to see theatre plays about the fortunes and misfortunes of the Roman Empire? The Miracle Players is an English-speaking theatre group that each Summer performs plays about Rome. Their creative and humorous stories are performed in Summer at the Roman Forum The Miracle Players provide entertainment by promoting the culture of antiquity [...]
Finally even the general public got the chance to see from the inside the famous Cinecittà Studios. From April 29 to November 30 an itinerary will guide the public there, where some of the best movies of our Time were filmed. Movies like ‘Ben Hur’, ‘Quo Vadis?’, ‘Gangs of New York’ or Mel Gibson’s blockbuster [...]
The Infiorata is one of the most beautiful Italian fair. It is held in June in Genzano, near Rome. It is on a Sunday, following the Corpus Domini day. This fair of flowers takes place on a whole street: Via Italo Belardi. The street is covered with flowers and you can see gigantic flower [...]
Sting in concert in Rome! On July 30th Sting will perform in Rome at the Cavea dell’Auditorium/Parco della Musica. This is a part of his acclaimed and celebrated Symphonicity Summer World Tour 2011. Sting will perform his greatest hits, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and band. He will be together with the Ensemble Symphony Orchestra [...]