If you’re familiar with Rome, you’ll know that the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele square in the Esquiline/Esquilino district, not far from the big train/bus hub at Termini, has just been reopened after a drawn-out series of works that have lasted for 2 years. Was it because of Roman remains that the renovation went on for so […]
by C. P.
If you’re traveling to Rome with your children, you may be wondering whether the Eternal City is going to be a good fit for your little ones. We are aware that there are steps almost everywhere, and some cobblestoned-lined streets can be hard to walk on if you’re pushing a stroller, but Rome is indeed […]
by C. P.
The end of summer is almost upon us, which means Romans are slowly but surely coming back from their holidays while the masses of tourists gracing the city (in spite of the ongoing Covid situation!) are for the most part going back home. This in turn means that this is one of the best […]
Along with the exhibition on Raphael, it should have been the great art event of the first half of 2020, but then Covid hit and all museums closed down: that’s why the first ever showing of the “long lost” Torlonia Marbles has even greater significance for Rome at this time. This all-new display, called “The […]
This past month of May, as soon as the lockdown ended all over Italy, we told you about the new scheme to allow museums to re-open safely to their visitors (both locals and foreign ones!). Because Rome is the home to museums belonging to the city itself, to the Italian government and even to private […]
Museums all over Italy have reopened to the public on May 18, more than two months after the start of the government-sanctioned lockdown from the last month of March: a much needed good news, and one that brings us closer, at least emotionally, to the end of the Coronavirus pandemic. Rome, of course, will be […]
by C. P.
An increasing number of world museums is allowing users stuck at home under Coronavirus lockdown to keep enjoying their cultural offer and their magnificent masterpieces by setting up “virtual tours” of their collections and their establishments. Rome has joined enthusiastically the initiative, with Vatican City and Italy’s capital joined into bringing art online to anyone […]
by C. P.
In spite of being walking distance from Piazza Navona, Campo de’ Fiori or even the Jewish Ghetto (as well as being across the river from Piazza Trilussa in Trastevere), Galleria Spada is a museum that gets little to no love from international tourists. Can it be because of the police and soldiers guarding its entrance? […]
by C. P.
Smack dab in the middle of Rome a giant, ancient monument has been sitting empty & visitor-less for many decades now. This is bound to end in the spring, though, when the Mausoleum of Augustus finally reopens to the public. The shrine, located by the Ara Pacis Museum close to Via del Corso, has been affected […]
Movie enthusiasts will be able to fuel their passion when they visit Rome, and not just throughout the festival season! A new museum to document Italy’s impressive contribution to this media, in fact, has just opened in the Cinecittà studios in south Rome. Dubbed MIAC, Museo Italiano dell’Audiovisivo e del Cinema (Italian Museum of the […]
