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Spending your Christmas in Rome

editor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:25:16 +0000

Rome is a top Italian city to visit during the Christmas holiday season and the place where the celebration of Christmas originated. The first Christmas mass was said at the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore and the earliest known permanent nativity was created for the Rome Jubilee in 1300.

Highlights of the season are the Papal Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and the Pope reading his Christmas message in the piazza in front of St. Peter’s at noon on Christmas Day. In St. Peter’s Square there is also a famous life-size nativity scene.

As well as the grand display outside St Peter’s, and a smaller effort in Piazza Navona, other nativity scenes (presepi) can be seen in most of Rome’s churches. These are important destinations for Italian visitors, and it’s worth inspecting one or two. Some have fascinating details, and even feature day-into-night lighting effects. There is also a large exhibition of presepi in the Sala del Bramante by Piazza del Popolo (admission charge).

At the Christmas Market in Piazza Navona you can buy the components for your own nativity scene, as well as sweets, wooden toys and all sorts of Christmas-related ornaments and goodies. Shoppers can marvel at the elaborate additions to nativity scenes, from working waterfalls to moving bakery scenes (in which the bakers look suspiciously like pizza chefs).

Those interested in Christmas shopping will find the main shopping streets sparkling with festive lights and packed with shoppers. Groups of busking musicians, often dressed as Santas, play cheerful seasonal tunes. Many shops lay down red carpeting on the pavements and the last few years have seen an invasion of large inflatable Santa Clauses. As well as the Christmas lights, a giant Christmas tree appears in the centre of town, in Piazza Venezia or by the Colosseum.

Rome is full of good places to buy presents: hundreds of little food shops are packed with goodies to take home. Other good Roman gifts include gloves and accessories (try the shops around the Spanish Steps) and kitsch souvenirs (anywhere near the Vatican).

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Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS

editor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:25:07 +0000

More than 33 million people have seen this fascinating exhibition. Making its Italian premiere in Rome, BODY WORLDS Vital celebrates the potential of the human body and the body in motion. This blockbuster exhibit is designed to show visitors a contrasting view of the reality between healthy and unhealthy lifestyle choices. Discover the contrast between healthy bodies and those in medical distress.

Gunther von Hagens’ is an anatomist and the original inventor of the process of plastination. All anatomical specimens on display are authentic and belonged to donors who legally allowed the scientific process to gain unique insights into the human body.

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Homo sapiens. The great history of human diversity

editor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:24:52 +0000

Still asking yourself these various questions regarding the evolution theory: when and where did we evolve? How have human societes spread across the continets? How have cultural innovations affected the growth and spread of population? What is the connection between genes and languages … Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered these questions.

Two hundred thousand years ago Homo sapiens began the journey from a small valley in what is today’s Ethiopia that led him to colonize the entire planet and to live with other human species, forming the great variety of peoples and cultures that we know. For the first time, an international group of scientists from different disciplines and coordinated by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, has reconstructed the roots and routes of human settlement. Geneticists, linguists, anthropologists and paleo-anthropologists have combined the results of their research into a wonderful fresco of the history of human evolution.
The result is Homo sapiens.The great history of human diversity, an international interactive and multimedia exhibition made up of six sections telling the stories of the adventures and extraordinary travels, largely unknown, which generated the mosaic of human diversity.

At Palazzo delle Esposizioni from November 11 2011
How to arrive: Underground metro A (get off at Repubblica) metro B (get off at Cavour) / Bus 40 – 64 – 70 – 71 – 117 – 101 – H (BUS STOP Nazionale/Palazzo Esposizioni)

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Piet Mondrian: L’armonia perfetta – Complesso del Vittoriano

editor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:44:25 +0000

We recommend the exibition at “Complesso del Vittoriano” from next October 7th to January 29 2012 of Piet Mondrian, which will celebrate the artist with a major exibition entitled “The Perfect Harmony”, that will explain his obsession with the idea of progress.
Mondrian like many avant-garde artists, was not satisfied with the art depicting the appearance of reality but the search of truth deeper that the exterior.

Fascinated by the Cubism, his paintings evolved to give birth to the current knows as Neoplasticism.

To experience this event, book your stay at our Hotel Scott House located in Rome city center near the exibition at “Vittoriano” taking advantage of our special offers.

Date: from October 7, 2011 to January 29, 2012

INFORMATIONS

Complesso del Vittoriano

Via di San Pietro in Carcere (Foro Romano – Piazza Venezia)

CONTACTS

Telephone: + 39 06 6780664 – 6780363

Email: museo.vittoriano1@tiscali.it

OPENING TIMES

Monday-Thursday: 9.30 am – 7.30 pm;
Friday-Saturday: 9.30 am – 11.30 pm;
Sunday: 9.30 am – 8.30 pm;
Last admission 1 hour before closing time.

Elton John and his Band – Live in Rome

editor — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:07:22 +0000

Elton John and his Band – Live in Rome at Auditorium Parco della Musica

Singer and composer, five-time Grammy winner and recipient of the coveted Grammy Legend Award in 2001. He has sold over 250 million records worldwide, and is also the man behind the best selling single of all time. That song was ‘Candle in the Wind’ and the man in question is of course, Elton John. Right here at Eventful is where you’ll find all the latest news on Elton John tour dates 2011, including those much-sought after Elton John Las Vegas shows which will mark the beginning of the star’s three-year residency at the famous Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace.

Wednesday 13 July 2011
Cavea, h 21

Information
Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy
Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30 – 00196
Rome, RM – Italy
http://www.auditorium.com/
e-mail: info@musicaperroma.it

Tickets
from 50 to 220 Euro
Telephone: +39 06 892982

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Rome Opera: Summer Season 2011 at the Terme di Caracalla

editor — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:55:07 +0000

Rome Opera: Summer Season 2011 at the Terme di Caracalla

Since 1937, the prestigious Rome Opera Theatre has held its summer season in the grand archaeological complex of the Terme di Caracalla. It is uniquely well-preserved among the great Roman baths, allowing visitors to appreciate its striking architecture in all its detail.

Schedule Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème

(16-17-18-19-21-22-23-24-25-26 June 2011)

Richard Strauss: Elektra

(30 September – 02-04-06-08 October 2011)

Information Piazza Beniamino Gigli, 1 – 00184 Roma

Telephone: +39 06 48160255 – 06 4817003

Fax: +39 06 4881755

e-mail: ufficio.biglietteria@operaroma.it

Hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Sunday Closed Monday.

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ATP International Tennis BNL of Italy 2011

editor — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:56:05 +0000

Everything is ready on Foro Italico’s 11 courts for the 68th “Internazionali BNL d’Italia 2011”, which this year envisages a few new major innovations.

First of all, the tournament is starting two weeks later than last year so that it will be played from May 7th to 15th. Unlike the previous year when the men’s and women’s matches were held over two separate weeks, this time round the two competitions will be both played over the same 9 days.
In addition, starting 2011 play will also take place on No. 1 Court in the Nicola Pietrangeli Stadium as well as on Centre Court which, in the opinion of players and staff alike, is judged to offer spectators the best view of play in the world..

INFO
7th – 15th May 2011
Centrale del Tennis
Address: Viale dei Gladiatori
Ticket Office: Villetta Ruggeri
Via dei Gladiatori, 10
00194 Roma