MAXXI NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ARTS OF THE XXI CENTURY

The MAXXI is the first national institution dedicated to contemporary creativity. It houses two museums: MAXXI Architecture and MAXXI Arte.L 'building, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in the Flaminio area and opened in 2010, with its flowing lines is an extraordinary example of contemporary architecture. Laboratory experimentation and innovation, MAXXI produces and hosts exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, conferences. In an area of ​​29 thousand square meters, MAXXI also houses an auditorium, a large plaza for live events, a research center - BASIS MAXXI, with library and archives - two bookshops, a café and restaurant / bar MAXXI 21.

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Via Guido Reni, 4 A
00196 Rome

How to reach the MAXXIFlaminio Metro stop and tram stop No. 2 Apollodorus
Bus no. 53, 217, 280, 910
HoursTuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Sunday 11:00 to 19:00
Saturday 11:00 to 22:00
The ticket office closes one hour before the museum
closuresMondays
May 1
December 25

Opening times:

Monday, April 9 and Monday, April 30, 2012
Cost of ticketentire € 11

reduced € 8 for groups of 15 to 25 persons and affiliated groups, journalists entered on the register with a valid identification card, university students up to 26 years;
€ 4 per student (over 14 years) for class groups (level secondary schools) to purchase the educational activities (except holidays);

more info: http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/

Caput Lucis Valmontone back to August 2 to 6

From August 2 to 6 MagicLand hosts the world championship of fireworks, unique event in Italy where you challenge the best fireworks on the planet.

5 nations in the race to compete for the coveted trophy: Spain, the reigning champion, the 'Italy, with the firm Scarsella, England, Austria and China.

The world's best pyrotechnical schools will compete in 2 events every night for 45-minute show that will give guests the unique thrill park.

Five nights of fireworks at the highest level and synchronized to the music of all kinds, from Queen to Beethowen, fires up to 300 meters high and large bore visible 20 km away, multipostazioni launch simultaneous departure and remote-controlled computer , incredible choreography of lights and colors.And again: 4000 mortars from which depart every evening over 8000 jumps for a light output comparable to 300,000 bulbs lit, 3000 pounds of gunpowder used in each show, trucks from all over the world full of boxes of fireworks.

Fun and admiring wonder at close range, but in complete safety, the exciting challenge of the best pyrotechnic companies in the world, each with its own style and technique.

In addition to fire the public can enjoy 36 attractions and 10 shows with several replicas also in the evening: the musical Gattobaleno in the Grand Theatre, the new show "Gladiators" set in ancient Rome, the aquatic show "Oceania" Lake and seguitissimo Stunt Show.

For the championship fires a panel of experts, composed of officials from the Ministry of Interior, journalists, renowned pyrotechnic, Institutions, and a lucky guest of the Park, the nation will decide the winner last night.Who knows that Italy does not redeem the recent final of Kiev to Spain snatching the title proper in this case the world!

The park is open from 10 am with tickets to Euro 35/28 that include everything from Euro 20 hours 17. 10 euro from 20.00.There are shuttles and trains.

Where:
MagicLand Valmontone
When:

From 02/08/2012 to 06/08/2012

 

THE VITTORIANO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The National Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, often incorrectly identified as the Altar of the Fatherland, was constructed by young Italian Parliament, playing the popular sentiment of gratitude to the sovereign who had just died, after unification and freedom of Italy .

The project selected by a competition (the second) reserved only for Italian artists, was that the young architect Giuseppe Sacconi Marches.

The grand equestrian statue of King, 10 long and 12 meters high, was inaugurated on June 4, 1911 in the presence of Vittorio Emanuele III, while work continued even until 1935, when it can be considered definitively closed the building.

On the stairs there is the Altar of the Fatherland, which is only part of the complex, ie the part located just beyond the stairs where you find the guard of honor and the great statue of the goddess Roma.

Inside are the exhibition spaces dedicated to the history of the Victorian home of himself and the Central Museum of the Risorgimento, which in recent years also hosts temporary exhibitions of paintings.

From 1987 to 2000, the Victorian was restored in 2007 and were installed at the glass elevators that lead to the terraces of the chariot, at a height of 62.26 meters, the highest point of all buildings in the center of Rome (the dome of St. Peter is 43 meters high).


Visiting hours:Daily 10.00 - 16.00. Closed on Mondays.
The visit to the Victorian is free and takes on a fixed course.

Summer in museums: events, sightseeing and ...

From July 14 to September 15, 2012 Guided tours in museums, events and educational activities for adults and children

 

Back, from Saturday 14 spaces in the Civic Museums of Rome Capital, the program of tours, events and educational activities for adults and children, which lasts until September. Many activities that take place in the evening.

We start from the Ara Pacis museum - extraordinarily open every Saturday evening from 20 to 24 (last entry 23) until September 1 - is ongoing in the exhibition Russian Avant-garde, Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, Rodchenko, Tatlin and others (visit the reservation is 21).

The Capitoline Also on Saturday, offering a guided tour of the collections at the Roman Forum and guided tours for foreigners, and to the Markets of Trajan activity dedicated to the families, a day with Trajan, explains everything on papyrus, parchment and waxed slate.

At the Napoleonic Museum, a tour of masterpieces and works of art tells the life and passions of men and women of Casa Bonaparte.

With the initiative in Summer Museums, places can be discovered and little-known but interesting works, such as the Casa Museo Pietro Canonica Villa Borghese.



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THE COLOSSEUM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum, is one of the most famous Roman monuments in the world. The name derives from the enormous Colosseum bronze statue of Nero that was erected in the vicinity and that, considering how much was known as the Colossus of Nerone.La construction of the amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, but completed by Titus in 80 AD and open to the public with a grand opening lasted a good hundred days that remain of the descriptions in the ancient chronicles. The Colosseum was built with the specific aim of giving the Roma a place worthy of the fame of his gladiatorial games that were previously held temporary wooden building erected by Nero in the Campus Martius after the old amphitheater of Taurus was destroyed Tito Laurel in the famous fire of 64 ADPreviously games were made either in the Roman Forum or the Forum Boario that were equipped with mobile facilities for these occasions. Throughout the Empire, the Colosseum was repeatedly restoration resulting in fires and earthquakes have to remember speeches by Antoninus Pius, of Heliogabalus and Alexander Severus, the latter due to restoration because of a disastrous fire in 217 AD and other restorations, commemorated by inscriptions, after the earthquake of 443 AD.

In 249, one thousandth of the founding of Rome, there were celebrated solemn feasts: among other shows, there was a battle of a thousand pairs of gladiators were killed and 32 elephants, 10 elks, 10 tigers, 60 lions, 10 hyenas, 10 giraffes, 20 wild donkeys, wild horses 40, 10 zebras, hippos 6. The gladiator fights there lasted until 404, when they were suppressed by Honorius (perhaps after the sacrifice of Telemachus, who monaco, cacciatosi boldly into the arena to prevent them, was killed by the crowd); those of wild animals since the mid sec.VI .The Amphitheatre has the shape of an ellipse having the major axis of 188 m. the lesser of 156 and the circumference of 527. Along the perimeter huge turn and rises 57 m to the solemn travertine exterior architecture, consisting of three levels of arches on pillars which are leaned against the half-columns of the three orders Doric, Ionic and Corinthian crowns the building quarter Order of slender Corinthian pilasters against solid masonry, similar to a high loft, with small rectangular windows, two-thirds of the height of this order turns a crown of large brackets equidistant: they served to support the pali, which, inserted in corresponding holes open in the terminal cornice, supported the awning that protected spectators from the sun and was manned by sailors trained. The blocks of travertine were originally united with cramps of iron, which were torn in the Middle Ages, leaving holes that can still be seen. The building was of travertine, tufa, bricks and concrete, marble interior. It is estimated that, overall, have been put in place more than 100,000 cubic meters of travertine, marble and other materials in addition to, and that the connecting pins of the blocks have occurred about 300 tons of iron.Inside, the seats of the auditorium was divided into three zones: the first reserved for the knights, citizens, the middle one, the most elevala the people. Above the third (summa) was probably another flight of steps behind the columns, provided with wooden seats reserved for women; above the colonnade, a terrace was intended for viewers who remained standing. Approximately 50 000 people (according to some, 73000), could take place in the amphitheater, they rank first or podium, equipped with a high parapet, contained the imperial box (pulvinar), for the emperors and their retinue, while the senators, the pontiffs, vestals, judges occupied the rest of the podium. After the 523 A.D. you have no other news shows, the Colosseum began its phase of decline of ruin that transformed the amphitheater into a quarry for building materials. Despite the damage, the monument still retains its look of indescribable grandeur.

The Colosseum is located in Piazza del Colosseo, n. 1 - Rome
Opening hours:
Open from September 1 to September 30:
from 8.30 to 19.00 - last admission 18.00
Open October 1 to 25:
from 8.30 alle18.30 - last admission at 17.30
Open from 26 October to 15 February 2009:
from 8.30 to 16.30 - last admission 15.30
Open from February 16 to March 15:
from 8.30 to 17.00 - last admission at 16.00
Open March 16 to 29:
from 8.30 to 17.30 - last admission at 16.30
Open from 30 March to 31 August:
from 8.30 to 19.15 - last admission at 18.15
Closing days:
January 1, May 1, 25 December.
tickets:
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket offices of the Palatine which also includes a visit to the Palatine and Roman Forum.
The ticket offices are located in:
- Via di San Gregorio n. 30 (Palatine)
Vehicles arriving at the Coliseum:
bus
60 - 75 - 85 to 87 - 117 - 271 to 571 - 175 - 186 to 810 - 850 - C3
tram
3
Metro Line B
Colosseo
Tickets cost:
ticket:
9 euros 3 euros (for exhibitions);
reduced ticket:
4.50 euros 3 euros (for exhibitions),
- People aged between 18 and 24 European Union members
- European Union teachers
(you must show a valid ID);
free ticket:
- Persons under 18 and over 65 citizens of the European Union
(you must show a valid ID);