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Posted in Atlante Hotels Offers, Panoramic restaurant in Rome - November 30th, 2011
Do you want to spend unforgettable Christmas and New Year’s Eve in a romantic setting? The Roof Garden “Les Etoiles”, the restaurant with a unique scenic view of the centre of Rome and of the Saint Peter’s Dome, gives you the right opportunity.
On December 24 and 25, on the occasion of Christmas dinner and lunch, and on December 31, on the occasion of New Year’s Eve dinner, the menu of the panoramic restaurant “Les Etoiles” will include exclusive dishes prepared with the typical ingredients of the roman cooking, the Christmas and New Year’s Eve traditions mixed in unique and refined recipes: carpaccio of sea bass in marinade of orange, medallion of veal with Madera and black truffle, Roman artichoke with a mousse of smoked swordfish, Nettles lasagnetta with wild boar ragout… And, obviously, all these dishes are served with prime wines and champagnes.
The Eve and Christmas Day, as well as the gala New Year offered by Panoramic Roof Garden “Les Etoiles” also provides the accompaniment of live music as a soundtrack to a magical moment to live and enjoy with a 360 ° view on rooftops of central Rome.
If you are planning your Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas lunch or New Year’s Eve dinner and want to live an unforgettable experience, book the panoramic Roof Garden “Les Etoiles”: the most spectacular panoramic restaurant in Rome.
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Exhibition in Rome: the Eternal City at the time of Caravaggio
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 24th, 2011
Roma all’epoca di Caravaggio (“Rome at the time of Caravaggio”): this is the title of the exhibition set in the halls of Palazzo Venezia (Via del Plebiscito, 118) until February 5, 2012 with more than 140 works and objects d’art from churches, museums and international collections that narrate a crucial period for Italian history and art.
And during this exhibition in Rome, will be shown an unpublished work of Caravaggio: it’s the Sant’Agostino (“Saint Augustine”), discovered in Spain, and its attribution to Merisi is the subject of perplexities and heated discussions between the experts of art.
One of the objective of this exhibition in Rome is to reconstruct the world where Caravaggio lived, with particular attention to his companions such as Annibale Caracci, the main exponent of the classicist art from Bologna. And it’s a great occasion also to examine an important historical period of Italy, when five popes succeeded to each other in forty years (approximately from 1595 to 1635).
To reach Palazzo Venezia for this exhibition in Rome dedicated to Caravaggio, get off at Coliseum (“Colosseo”) or Barberini/Fontana di Trevi stops of metro Linea A. And the Atlante Star Hotel, in the heart of the Eternal City, is well connected just with metro Linea A.
Lux in arcana: the Vatican Archive shows its secrets
Posted in Events in Rome, International events in the Capital - November 22nd, 2011
Lux in arcana (Latin, literally “light in mysteries”) is an event without precedent: for the first time in the thousand-years-old story of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican Secret Archive will open its doors and show one hundred, precious documents to the public. These documents will be on display at Capitoline Museums of Rome in Piazza del Campidoglio 1 (Capitol Square) from March 1 to September 9, 2012.
And maybe Lux in arcana will be the only time when these documents will pass the doors of the Vatican Archive: manuscripts, codices and ancient parchments that narrate about conclaves and heresies, popes and imperators, crusades and excommunications, from VIII century AD to XX century.
Here you have some of the documents on display: the Dictatus Papae of Pope Gregorio VII, the deposition bull of Federico II, the excommunication of Leone X to Martin Luther, the public records of the trial against Galileo Galilei, the silk letter of the empress Helen from China, some selected documents concerning the “reserved period” of the Second World War.
To get to Capitoline Museums in the occasion of Lux in arcana, take the metro Linea A and get off at Colosseo (Coliseum) stop. And to comfortably enjoy this exhibition in Rome, it’s good to stay at the 4 star superior Atlante Star Hotel, in the centre of the Eternal City.
Exhibition in Rome: the post-war Japan at Japanese Culture Institute
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 17th, 2011
Metamorphosis is an exhibition in Rome open until January 14, 2012, set in Istituto di cultura giapponese (“Japanese Culture Institute”, in Antonio Gramsci Road) and dedicated to the post-war Japan. One hundred and twenty black-and-white photos recall a very difficult, tragic period: the fall of Japan into barbarism and destruction of the Second World War and its rise as one of the most important economic power of the whole world.
This exhibition in Rome at Japanese Culture Institute is divided into three sections: Le conseguenze della sconfitta (“Consequences of defeat”), Tra tradizione e modernità (“Between tradition and modernity”), Verso un Giappone nuovo (“Towards a new Japan”). In these sections are collected one hundred and twenty black-and-white photos made by eleven famous Japanese photographers and artists such as Ken Domon , Hiroshi Hamaya , Eiko Hosoe and others.
The Japanese Culture Institute is in Antonio Gramsci Road. To get there, take the metro Linea A and get off at Flaminio/Piazza del popolo stop. And to enjoy this exhibition in Rome about post-war Japan, the best accommodation is the four star Hotel Atlante Star, well connected with Linea A of Rome metro.
The photographer Milton Gendel on display in Rome until January 8
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 15th, 2011
Milton Gendel, the famous surrealist photographer, was born in the United States but the Eternal City adopted him since 1949, when his photos narrated the Italian second postwar period. And an exhibition in Rome, set in the halls of Carlo Biliotti Museum (in Viale Fiorello la Guardia) until January 8, offers a retrospective of the works of this photographer and art critic.
This exhibition in Rome dedicated to Milton Gendel is divided into four sections: his beginning in New York near great surrealist artists such as Max Ernst, André Breton e Isamu Nogushi; his experience as a reporter during the war in China; the downright adventure, lived from 1958 to 1962, at Roma-New York Art Foundation; and at last the attendance with Italian and North American artists. In the exhibition are on display eighty photos of Milton Gendel with drawings, paintings and printings made by his friends and artists such as Toti Scialoja, Ettore Colla, Mimmo Rotella and many more.
The Carlo Biliotti Museum is in the centre of the Eternal city: to get there, take the metro Line A and get off at Spanish Steps (Piazza di Spagna) stop. And the 4 star Hotel Atlante Garden, situated in the heart of Rome, is an ideal accommodation to see the exhibition of Milton Gendel.
Rome exhibition: photographer Éric Poitevin on display at Villa Medici
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 10th, 2011
Exhibition in Rome: Éric Poitevin, the famous French photographer, is on display from September 23, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in the suggestive halls of Villa Medici, in Viale Trinità dei Monti n.1. The opening time of the exhibition: from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.45am/1am and 2pm/7pm (the only exception is 9pm on Thursday).
In this photographic exhibition in Rome are on display forty works of Éric Poitevin, from his most famous photos to the recent ones, practically never shown before. After all a tight fil rouge links Poitevin and the Eternal city: the French photographer in the Nineteen Eighties was a student with scholarship just at Academy of France in Rome (Académie de France à Rome), in Villa Medici.
Rome: open museums on Saturday night until January 7, 2012
Posted in Events in Rome - November 8th, 2011
Until January 7, 2012 the Rome museums will be open even on Saturday night, from 8pm to 1am: it’s the winter edition of the event Sabato sera nei musei (“Saturday night in museums”), repeated after the success of the past summer edition, from the last days of June to the first days of September.
Here you have the complete list of the museums that take part in Sabato sera nei musei: Centrale Montemartini, Macro Nizza street, Macro Testaccio, Trajan’s Market (Mercati di Traiano), Capitoline Museums (Musei capitolini), Museum of Ara pacis, Museum of Rome palazzo Braschi, Museum of Rome in Trastevere. All these Rome museums will be exceptionally open on Saturday night from 8pm to 1am, last entrance at 12pm (exception: Macro Testaccio museum will be open until 12pm, last entrance at 11:30pm).
Even in autumn city dwellers of Rome and tourists will have the possibility to visit the museums, the permanent and temporary exhibitions, and to watch the theatrical performances set during the event Roma in scena (“Rome on stage”).
Before visiting the museums of Rome open on Saturday night, it’s better to have a good dinner at Restaurant roof garden, on the 6th floor of the hotel Atlante star.
Rome event: the story of homo sapiens at Palazzo delle esposizioni
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 3rd, 2011
An event, an exhibition in Rome that shows the story of homo sapiens: the migration from Ethiopia to Europe started two hundred thousand years ago, the colonization of the whole world. It’s “Homo sapiens. La grande storia della diversità umana” (“Homo sapiens. The great story of human diversity”) set in Palazzo delle esposizioni (via Nazionale 194) from November 11, 2011 to February 12, 2012.
Geneticists, linguists, anthropologists and paleo-anthropologists worked together to realize this exhibition, to make a “fresco” of human race and its evolution, set up in the attractive halls of Palazzo delle esposizioni.
And the result is an interactive, multimedia event in Rome, an exhibition split in six parts: Mal d’Africa, the beginning of human race, about two million years ago; La solitudine è un’invenzione recente, the contact between homo sapiens and other species of homo (mostly Neanderthal); I geni, i popoli, le lingue, the birth of a new homo sapiens, able to use fire and utensils; Tracce di mondi perduti, the nomadic homo sapiens becomes sedentary; Italia, unità nella diversità, the story of homo sapiens in Italy; Tutti parenti, tutti differenti: le radici intrecciate della civiltà (“All related, all different: the linked roots of mankind”).
Palazzo delle esposizioni is reachable with metro Linea A, Barberini-Fontana di Trevi stop. And Atlante star hotel, near Navona Steps and Spanish Square, is an ideal accommodation.
Leonardo Da Vinci in Rome: genius on display in Fiumicino airport
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - November 1st, 2011
Leonardo Da Vinci on display in Rome is a good chance to see the creations, the machines and the dreams of a genius, an inventor who surprises the whole world with his works and ideas, even if he died almost five hundred years ago.
The exhibition Il genio di Leonardo (“The genius of Leonardo”, set in terminal 1 of Fiumicino airport from now to April 2012) shows the flying machines created by the Florentine inventor: this works derive directly from Leonardo’s projects and they are collected in the same place for the first time.
Near flying machines as ornithopter (the “ancestor” of modern helicopter), the glider and the flying machines with pedals (a sort of bike with wings), this exhibition that Rome dedicates to Leonardo Da Vinci shows a self-portrait found in Basilicata (an Italian region) in 2009: in this painting the Florentine genius paints himself with a long and white beard, a serious look, a hat with a feather and two unexpected blue eyes.
And to see this exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci, you need an hotel in the centre of Rome and well-connected with metro and public transport as 4 star Hotel Atlante Garden, near Vatican City, Navona Square and Spanish Steps.
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An ancient map of XVI century Mongolia on display in Rome
Posted in Events in Rome, Exhibitions in Rome and surroundings - October 27th, 2011
An ancient map of XVI century Mongolia, entirely silk-made and thirty meters long: this archeological treasure in on display in Rome, at Terme di Diocleziano (79 Enrico de Nicola street) from October 21 to February 26. This exhibition is a part of the show “A Oriente. Città, uomini e dei sulla via della seta” (“To the East. Men, cities and gods on the Silk Way”).
This ancient map of Mongolia was made during the Ming dynasty, maybe between 1524 and 1539. And it shows places, colors and fascination of the Silk Way, a very extended, vast region that ran from northwestern China (exactly from province of Gansu) to the Red Sea. A long, thousand-year-old story of men and cities, on display in Rome, just in one map.
This exhibition is set with the contribution of Foreign ministry, Ministry of cultural heritage, Roma capital and Chamber of commerce of Rome. Instead “A Oriente. Città, uomini e dei sulla via della seta” is set by the international biennial exhibition of culture Vie della seta (“Silk Ways”).
And to see this ancient Mongolian map on display at Terme di Diocleziano in Rome, the best place to stay is the 4 star superior Atlante Star Hotel, near Vatican City and St Angel’s Castle.
Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/antmoose