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);

The Windmill of Castel Sant'Angelo.

June 29, 2012



For the feast of the Patron Saints of Cities, SS Peter and Paul, not to be missed at Castel Sant'Angelo!

On June 29, 2012 confirms the tradition of THE WINDMILL of Castel Sant'Angelo, the phantasmagorical spectacle of fireworks, introduced in 1481 for the exaltation of the papacy of Sixtus IV and brought to light thanks to the meticulous philological research of Cav . Giuseppe Passeri del Gruppo IX Invicta.

Lungotevere Tor di Nona, Lungotevere Altoviti , Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II,Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta,  Ponte Umberto I and Via Banco Spirito are the lookouts, around Castel Sant'Angelo, advised the public to better enjoy the show.

 

Today, thanks to a very sophisticated technological apparatus which makes use of radio control units for the ignition of the burners, 18 technicians and a designer is able to cope - in absolute safety for them and the surrounding environment - at a job that in past, saw the participation of over 100 men, with considerable savings on costs of labor that would otherwise be prohibitive. The creation of mixtures of fires following the dictates and directions of the old masters, to ensure the intensity and color brilliance.

But what was the Windmill? 

"The Maraviglia of Time" was born in Rome in 1481 by Pope Sixtus IV, and from that point is then used to celebrate major events and religious holidays of the year, like Easter, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul and the coronation of the new PopeWindmill and explain what that was, for over three hundred years is complicated, as it would be reductive to define a simple fireworks, because the Windmill was an event that attracted spectators from all over Europe, an event where foreigners flocked to every grade and social class until 1861, when the vagaries of time and memory are then relegated into obscurity this ancient festive time during which the Castle, and Rome itself, became a stage for spectators on the opposite bank of the Tevere.

According to tradition it was Michelangelo Buonarroti, the creator of the Windmill in the period in which to work, commissioned by Pope Julius II, is the historically established subsequent reworking of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who honed the set of the movement.

Today, thanks to technology that uses radio control units for the lighting of fires, 18 technicians and designers are able to do - safely - the work we undertook a time over a hundred men. Scrupulously faithful to the ancient Windmill are the mixtures of the fires, to ensure the brightness and colors of the Renaissance. All this, with great technical and complex as those of the past: 5 points for starting the fires, over 400 "acceleration", 600 "Roman candles" and "fountains falistranti".

The Windmill 2012 is sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture and is sponsored by the Capitol (Department of Cultural Policies and Historical Center, the Cultural Commission) and the Ministry of Heritage and Culture. Design, layout and organization by the Invicta Group IX, in collaboration with Zètema Culture Project.

Where

Castel Sant'AngeloLungotevere Castle, 50

Time

21:30

 FREE ADMISSION

  Champions of Argentine Tango at the

 Auditorium Parco della Musica

The bodies that touch, the harmony that is felt in every touch, eyes that resemble those of the lovers in their world, and then the steps always sinuous and the perfect attire, sophisticated, sexy too. This is the tango, the most sensual dance ever, in recent years has seen an incredible exploits, popular as an antidote to the marriage crisis.

How to describe the tango and the impetuous force that explodes? The Argentine dance is simply "pensamiento triste que se baila" immortalized by Gardel, Borges, Disciple, Sabato.
And 12 to 21 September Rome is preparing to host the greatest champions of this true art. It will take place in the Sala Sinopoli, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Campeonato, which provides for the performance of the Cuarteto The Bordona, with singer Juan Villareal and the pairs of dancers Milena Plebs David-Alexandre Palo, Horacio Godoy-Magdalena Gutiérrez Calviño and Los Macana brothers Enrique and Guillermo De Fazio, renowned for the originality of their creations.
The quartet will accompany the Bordona live every night of the Campeonato de Campeones, festival produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma, and in collaboration with the City of Buenos.

The tango, considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be celebrated in all its nuances, with concerts, animated by the master of the bandoneon, displays of items doc seminars, dance classes, conferences, exhibitions. But even outdoors, in the auditorium, you will breathe the atmosphere of passion and melancholy thanks to open-air milongas, in total freedom, until late at night.

To forget your worries and indulge in the pleasure of music that speaks directly to the heart, the tango is the right remedy.

where:
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Via Pietro Coubertin, 30 Roma

when:
From 12/09/2012 to 21/09/2012


info: Parco della Musica

World Cup Skateboarding at Ostia

 From 15 to June 17, 2012 Rome is preparing for a whole weekend to become the world capital of skateboarding

 

Rome is preparing for a whole weekend to become the world capital of skateboarding.

The "The Spot Skatepark" in Ostia will host 15 to 17 June for the fifth consecutive year, one of the stages of World Cup Skateboarding, the most prestigious international skateboarding tour.

Among the more than 100 athletes from 5 continents stands out as the young Alexander (Alex) source, which at age 14 is already one of the most famous skateboarder of the international circuit.

Born in Florida from Italian father and American mother, Alex started to practice this sport since a very young age and is the holder of two Guinness World Records: largest number, 15 in 30 seconds, both of which Frontside Boneless Axle Stall - two among the most famous trick, a term which is sometimes more affectionately known developments of skaters - and being one of the youngest participants in the 2011 Dew Tour.

Where: Ostia

When: From 15/06/2012 to 17/06/2012

Sunday, June 17 MARKETS ASSOCIATES

The wasp 50, Vespone 125, vinyl records, out of lunch with the family, the mini roof with a flag, the true 70's rock, the hairstyles "inflated", the skirts of chess, books and journalism 'assault, the comics page. All this and not only becomes Roma Vintage proposes that this year for the first time in the peaceful surrounding of San Sebastian Park missed an appointment with the Sunday market.The three most important realities of Rome for the first time join together to give vent to a single large market, the Market Associates.
VINTAGE MARKET and not only ... with its retro atmosphere 'propose' booth exhibitors and Vintage-style, with photo shoots and music theme, a journey through the ages to sell and trade vintage clothing and accessories that thanks to the watchful eyes of someone will have a second life cycle .HAPPY SUNDAY MARKET a market, a fair, a place not where the threads are interwoven, the colors blend, the words come together, the arts come together, a place to explore many different categories of products: vintage clothing, accessories and creations of young designers and emerging designers, artisans and artists, but also a thorough search of books and music, handmade soaps and perfumes, spices and flowers.JAPANESE MARKET discover and savor the east to Rome is possible, a market that offers products and mores of Japanese culture: the kimono, Hello Kitty, Totoro, manga, shodo, tea shop, Obento goods, gothic lolita, zen and much more. A unique opportunity to immerse themselves in Japanese.

Over 150 exhibitors from all over Italy with a dining area and cocktail area, DJ sets and more, an opportunity for the Romans, not only to buy, browse, find the unfindable, listen to music and take a stroll among booths of handcrafted products, use and production of independent designers.

Vintage Market, Happy Sunday Market & Japanese Market
have
MARKETS ASSOCIATES
from 15:00
free admission
VINTAGE ROME - Park of San Sebastian
Via di Porta S. Sebastian 2 (Piazzale Numa Pompilio) - Roma