Category: Rome

Here you will find many news about events, exhibitions and much more about Rome. If you would like to visit Rome, we suggest you a useful tourist guide to Rome: About Roma

Outlets in Italy, the brand-new Website about all the Outlets in Italy. Find your favorite Italian Brands Here!

The new and original website “Outlets in Italy is now online. As the name already indicates, the website offers many useful information and tips about all the outlets in Italy.

This website gives users the opportunity to search for their favorite Italian brands in Italy and discover where to find it in one of the thousands shopping centers and fashion malls placed throughout the country. It is also possible – and very easy indeed – to search by location, region, city, or category of products (accessories, clothing, home, sport, underwear, perfumery, shoes, kids).

In this way, it is possible to find the best outlet shopping centers in Italy in a very simple and quick way: at home, with your pc and with

Vincent Van Gogh comes back in Rome: out-of-time Countryside – Modern City

After 22 years, the art genius Vincent Van Gogh comes back in Rome with an exhibition at Complesso Vittoriano with more than 60 artworks, besides the ones made by the masters who inspired and guided the Dutch painter to the development of his technique and the predilection for certain subjects.

Van Gogh often painted rural and urban subjects bringing out values coming from tradition, countryside, warm hardness you could find in faces, humbles and peasants’ daily gestures.

By painting modern cities, the painter always chose to create alleys pictures of suburbs in full expansion in that period, while in his countryside representations Van Gogh inserted his personal idea of happiness in simple farmer life.

The Kiss by Hayez on display in Italy: Trieste, Genoa, Palermo, Turin, Florence and Rome

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unity, The Kiss, the masterpiece by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez that since1861 made generations dream with its charming and romantic gesture of love, will be put on display in Italy.

A masterpiece for Italy, a country celebrating its unity and art in the cities that were involved in the liberation from Austria and in the creation of the national unity.

The artwork, created in 1861, soon became the symbol of love pains and still today is as famous as The Kiss by Klimt.

The version belonging to 1860 represents the achievement of the ideal unity. It is a proud homage to the newborn Italian Unity, represented by the colors of the Italian flag: the white veil of the woman, the green

Hurry up, let’s go to the city! New Year’s coming!

After waiting for presents on Christmas Eve, Christmas lunches and dinners here it comes the end of year 2010 and everyone wants to start in a good mood, in a way or another.

Every year, lots of traditions are performed in Italy to ensure a happy and lucky new year: wearing red underwear, Ancient Romans’ symbol of blood and war used to exorcize fears, eating lentils, grapes or pomegranate to assure money as much as the number of grains you are able to eat, and, of course, shooting fireworks, originally coming from Ancient China where they used to shoot them to fear evil.

In recent years, besides private

Christmas Markets, Traditions and Special Events in the Italian Capital: Discover Rome in Christmas Time

Also this year, the traditional Christmas and Epiphany Market comes back in Rome in the beautiful Piazza Navona taking place from November, 26th 2010 to January, 6th 2011.
Visitors will find several stalls offering typical, Christmas culinary specialties, stockings filled with presents, sweets and chocolate, decorations for their Christmas tree, everything for the Nativity scene and much more.

The 5th edition of International Film Festival is coming in Rome

Dear cinema lovers, the renowned International Film Festival is coming back in Rome with its fabulous 5th edition.

Such en event has become very popular among both Italian and foreign visitors and it will take place from October 28th to November 5th 2010 in Rome at Auditorium Parco della Musica, the extraordinary building created by the famous architect Renzo Piano.

The event will be held in the 5 rooms of the building: Santa Cecilia, S

Antiques Exhibition Market in Rome, from 16th to 24th October 2010

The 5th edition of the Antiques Exhibition Market comes back in Rome from 16th to 24th October with 3,000 pieces of art and a 2000 sq. m. area for Roman, Italian and foreign antiques.

Italian and European high quality furniture, pieces of art coming from the East, F
rench, English and Italian furniture, oriental rugs, paintings and much more, much-sought pieces chosen by experts in the field of art, collectors and art-addicts.

At the Museum of S. Spirito in Sassia, placed in via di Borgo S. Spirito 1, close to Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter in Vaticano, a unique mix between past and present waits for you, where you will find works by Andy Warhol, Giorgio de Chirico and Giuseppe Migneco.

An exhibition area rich in history and art will host such an exhibition

Roma Europa Festival 2010: take a glimpse into the future!

A great appointment with the contemporary arts is coming back to Rome: the Roma Europa Festival 2010, an event entirely dedicated to music, dance, cinema and theater that this year is going to celebrate its 25th edition. As usual, in the works we’ll find many international artists, performances, surprises and emotions.

On Tuesday 21st September, the festival will be inaugurated with the Orphée of the Montalvo-Hervieu Company at the Auditorium della Conciliazione.

A real journey in the perspectives of the international artists and in the contemporary arts, where changes of our contemporary world will be put on the stage.

The event schedules 38 appointments, among which we find 20 national premieres

White Night 2010 in Rome: events, concerts, culture

The craziest night in Italy full of emotions and fun is coming to Rome in the night between 19th and 20th September: the White Night in Rome comes back!

The appointment with the eternal city is just around the corner, and once again it will be totally enlightened showing people the facades of the most beautiful palaces, stately monuments and ancient streets and squares all night long, where thousands citizens and visitors will be looking for fun and crazy events.

Cultural events, initiatives, parties, concerts, museums, galleries and shops open until dawn. If you love the eternal city you can’t miss such a fabulous event! Rome and its large squares and spaces, its fountains, the beautiful gardens, the architecture

Eat Pray Love: Leave now and come to Rome, for Enjoying the pleasures of Life, of Italy and Learning Italian

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“Have you lost touch with who you are? Then risk everything and let yourself go”. These are the words of the trailer of “Eat, Pray, Love”, the new movie interpreted by the beautiful and very good actress Julia Roberts and based on a book written by the American writer Elizabeth Gilbert.

The film is based on an incredible real story, which tells about a 32-years-old businesswoman who, after her divorce and a hard time, decides to leave and spend one year traveling among Italy, India and Indonesia, looking for herself.

In the book, she tells about her four months spent in Italy, to be more precise, in the beautiful Rome, and we can discover all the special moments she lived there, eating and enjoying life like only Romans can do, as the author says.

She falls in love with the Italian lifestyle, the way they have fun and enjoy their life without feeling guilty about it, and she also falls in love with the shy Giovanni, a handsome Italian guy who becomes her personal Italian language teacher.

Learning Italian was one of the things she always wanted to do, and now she will have this chance. She will learn Italian language making conversation with many new friends, eating in special restaurants with them, and discovering the curious Italian ways of saying and a lot of new words.

She will attend an Italian language course