AGI – Happy birthday to splendid, chaotic, difficult and seductive Rome. April 21st marks the 2,777th year since the foundation of what is considered worldwide to be the most beautiful city of all. This time too, there are many initiatives to celebrate this holiday known as the “Christmas of Rome”. There is a rich cultural program of meetings, guided tours, exhibitions, shows, active from Saturday 20th and which will last until Monday 22nd April. Various ‘special’ events are planned which can also be seen on the Municipality’s website. The initiatives for Christmas in Rome number 2,777 are promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Culture, Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage. Organization by Zètema Progetto Cultura.
Let’s see what the program has in store. On Saturday 20 April from 8pm to 10pm, in the Villa of Massenzio, on the fourth mile of the Via Appia Antica, it will be possible to participate in the inauguration of the new lighting designed by the Capitoline Superintendency of Cultural Heritage to enhance the monumental remains present in the approximately 20 hectares of the archaeological area and allow visitors access after dark for special events. The new lighting system affected the area of the dynastic mausoleum, the access path to the Villa, the towers and the prisons, allowing citizens to enjoy the evocative spectacle of the imposing imperial structures even at night. And then, tomorrow from 11am to 7pm, in the multifunctional space of the Sala Santa Rita, in via Montanara, next to the Teatro di Marcello, it will be possible to visit the free exhibition “La Dea Roma” by Pietro Tenerani.
The celebrations include visits and tours to rediscover the beauty of the city through the observation and narration of works, monuments, artistic and cultural testimonies. On Saturday, at the Villa of Massenzio here is the Ab Urbe seasoned 2024 event, an immersion in time and history, which will continue the following day. Thanks to the new artistic lighting it will be possible to visit the museum space until 10pm (last entry at 9.30pm). At the Museum of the Roman Republic and the memory of Garibaldi, the visit is scheduled for 21 April 1849: Rome prepares for the battle to discover the characters and events of the Roman Republic of 1849. Tomorrow morning, here is the appointment at 10.15 and 11.45 , at the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture for the distant ancestors of the Latin alphabet, a guided tour with an in-depth look at the first graphic systems that led to the creation of the Latin alphabet. At the Carlo Bilotti Museum at the Orangery of Villa Borghese, visit to the Manuel Felisi 1:1 exhibition which will lead visitors to discover the artist’s works: a contemporary “bestiary” with animals reproduced in life size (with accompaniment in Italian signs). Also at 10.30 am at the Capitoline Museums – Villa Caffarilli there will be Fidia, all the colors of perfection, a guided tour of the current exhibition with an in-depth look at the theme of polychromy on ancient works. This will be followed by an activity in which visitors will be able to try their hand at using colour. At Casina del Cardinal Bessarione there is a children’s workshop Discovering a Casina to rediscover the history of this place through the five senses. At 11 am at the Ara Pacis Museum, children will be able to participate in the workshop on April 21st, a special birthday! To have fun in the name of history and creativity among images, characters and stories, to make your own crown and become emperors and empresses for a day.
On Sunday 21st at 3pm the Gruppo 70 visit will take place at the Gallery of Modern Art in via Crispi: the artists, the themes, the techniques, to discover the protagonists and the themes that have characterized the experimentation of this artistic association (with accompaniment in Italian Sign Language). At 3.15pm and 4.15pm in Piazza Vittorio, free visit to “La Porta Magica” and Mario’s Trophies, to discover the monument characterized by enigmatic mottos and hermetic signs. At 5 pm at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi the visit will be conducted From the street to the Museum: the monochromes of the Casino del Bufalo to present the myth of Andromeda and Perseus in the sixteenth-century monochromes of the façade of the Casino del Bufalo created by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino from Florence (with accompaniment in Italian Sign Language). Finally, at the same time a visit to the exhibition on the eclectic Renaissance scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi is scheduled at the Zoology Museum. The festival continues until April 22nd. In the morning, at 10am, anyone who wants can go and discover the Street Art works that characterize the Quadraro neighborhood with Urban Itineraries. An itinerant route in the historic neighborhood with an anti-fascist vocation, marked by the roundup of 17 April 1944, which is the main inspiring theme of the Street art works of the MURo project (with accompaniment in Italian Sign Language). At 11am at the Trajan’s Markets – Museum of the Imperial Forums, the visit “Augustus, new founder of Rome” starts which tells the story of the emperor Augustus and his attempt to appear as the new founder of the city (with accompaniment in sign language Italian). The Municipality reminds you that for visits and meetings, booking is mandatory on 060608 (open every day 9am-7pm). In the Museums in the Municipality, in addition to the permanent collections, it will also be possible to visit the numerous temporary exhibitions currently underway, accessible at an ordinary rate but free for MIC Card holders. At the Capitoline Museums (piazza del Campidoglio 1), in the Sala degli Arazzi of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, you can admire the VRBS Roma, the golden glass depicting the goddess Roma. Palazzo Clementino hosts I Colori dell’Antico. Santarelli Marbles at the Capitoline Museums, a broad overview of the use of colored marbles, from its origins to the 20th century. At Villa Caffarilli, the impressive life-size reconstruction of the Colossus of Constantine is on display. At the Centrale Montemartini (via Ostiense 106) you can visit the Uninhabitable Architectures exhibition. At Trajan’s Markets – Museum of the Imperial Forums (via IV Novembre 94), the Imago Augusti exhibition. At the Museum of Rome in Trastevere (piazza S. Egidio, 1/b) there are three exhibitions to visit: Rino Gaetano, dedicated to the great singer-songwriter who marked an era in Italian music, Hilde In Italy Art and life in the photographs of Hilde Lotz -Bauer”, with 100 images taken by the German photographer, pioneer of street photography, and Una movida Ba’rbara. In the rooms of the Gallery of Modern Art (via Francesco Crispi 24), the exhibition Reality Optional. Miaz Brothers with the masters of 20th century, with the works painted by the artistic duo Miaz Brothers in dialogue with a selection of masterpieces from the permanent collection.
At the Napoleonic Museum (Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1) you can admire Giuseppe Primoli and the charm of the East. At the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Orangery of Villa Borghese (via Fiorello La Guardia 6 – viale dell’Aranciera 4) the exhibition Manuel Felisi 1:1. Double offer for the Villa Torlonia Museums: at the Casino dei Principi the anthological exhibition Giancarla Frare – Living the distance; in Casina delle Civette the exhibition “In the sign of Cambellotti”. Then there are the initiatives: Fidia, hosted in the rooms of Villa Caffarilli; Ukiyoe. The Floating World. Visions from Japan, at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi; “Giacomo Matteotti. Life and death of a father of Democracy”, at the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi; “Beyond space, beyond time”. The dream of Ulisse Aldrovandi, at the Civic Museum of Zoology. Unmissable, especially for tourists, is the “Circo Maximo Experience”, an immersive visit to the Circus Maximus in augmented and virtual reality. But Rome, as we well know, is not just culture and art. It’s music, sport, football with cheering to the nth degree for two teams engaged in an eternal derby full of teasing: Roma and Lazio. The first, yellow and red like the colors of Rome which it boasts of, the second in white and blue, which however claims to have been born first. Rome is traffic, limited traffic zones, metro and construction sites that the Romans have “adopted” with patience and irony, aware of being in a capital that wants to renew itself. It is the “Big Dome” which turns orange at sunset, it is the coming Jubilee, the Colosseum which looks down on everyone from its majesty. Rome is also food, sweets and delicacies from bars and restaurants. It is a tradition of carbonara, cacio e pepe, artichoke alla giudia, cod fillets and suppli’, pinsa, anchovy and endive pie, ice cream, sour cherry and ricotta tart, donuts with Castelli wine, Maritozzo with cream… Best wishes wonderful eternal city.
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