Culture
& Entertainment
Modern art
National Gallery
National Museum
of the History of Spaghetti and Pasta
National Gallery
of Antique Arts
Museum of
Rome in Braschi Palace
Rome's National
Museum in "Terme di Diocleziano"
Capitoline
Museums
Music
Nightlife
Museums & Galleries
Vatican Museums
 Representing
the greatest collection of antiques in the world, here you can admire
works of extraordinary artistic interest through 7 kilometers.
The museums are divided in several sections. You can start from the
Egyptian museum, which occupies ten rooms,
then you can see the Chiaramonti museum,
where about one thousand Greek and Roman sculptures are showed. In
the lapidary gallery there are thousands
of inscriptions, which make it the richest one in the world. In the
Pio Clementino museum, besides numerous
Roman sculptures, which are copies of famous Greek original ones,
like the Laocoonte, you can admire the bronze "Amazzone ferita"
and some works by A. Canova, like the "Perseo".
The Vatican Museums are expanding on four levels and on an area of
10.000 square meters. The first works, which are kept here, date back
to the Renaissance. Since then and on, Popes continued and completed
to gather and to select the greatest treasures of art.
Address: Viale Vaticano
Open from Monday through Friday from 8.45
a.m. up to 4.45 p.m. Saturday from 8.45 a.m. up to 1.45 p.m. Closed
on Sunday. Every last Sunday of the month the Museums are opened and
the admittance is free. The ticket office closes one hour
before closing time
Ticket: L 15.000, cheap ticket L 10.000.
Telephone: 0669884947
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Modern
art National Gallery
 Founded
in 1883, it is dedicated to 19th and 20th centuries Italian painters
and sculptors, even if you can also find works by some foreign artists.
It is hosted in "Palazzo delle belle Arti", situated in
the area known as "Valle Giulia", realized by the architect
Cesare Bazzani in 1911 on the occasion of the big International Exposure.
Address: Viale delle Belle Arti, 131
Open from 9 a.m. up to 10 p.m. Sunday
from 9 a.m. up to 8 pm. Closed on Monday
Ticket: L 8.000
Telephone: 06322981
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National
Museum of the History of Spaghetti and Pasta
 A
unique museum in the world, it shows a rich patrimony of the history
of pasta with its relative machinery, objects and documents.
Address: P.zza Scanderberg, 117
Open from 9.30 a.m. up to 12.30 p.m. /
6 p.m.-7 p.m. every day.
Ticket: L. 12.000 - L. 6.000 for teenagers
with less than 18 years and soldiers in uniform. Earphones with guide
in 6 languages, every visitor will receive a little present.
Telephone: 066991119
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National
Gallery of Antique Arts
 An
extensive collection of works of art dating back to the XV up to the
XIX century (Raffaello, Tiziano, Lotto and Caravaggio).
Address: Palazzo Barberini, Via IV Fontane,
13
Open from 9 a.m. up to 2 p.m.; closed
Monday
Ticket: L. 8.000 - Free: less than 18
and over 60 years
Telephone: 4814430
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Museum
of Rome in Braschi Palace
 This
museum keeps a wide and most interesting collection of sculptures,
paintings and things of daily use which testify Rome's uses and customs
from the Middle Ages up to the XIX century. You can find this museum
in Braschi Palace, which placed in "Piazza San Pantaleo",
the last great palace that was commissioned by a Pope for his own
family. It was built at the end of the XVIII century by the architect
Morelli.
Address: Piazza San Pantaleo, 10
Telephone: 066865696
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Rome's
National Museum in "Terme di Diocleziano"
One of the most important archaeological collection in the world,
the museum is placed in the rooms of the "Terme di Diocleziano"
which is a grandiose and splendid thermal building of the ancient
world. The construction of the "Terme di Diocleziano", whose
colossal remains face the "Termini Station", was begun in
298 A.D. and finished in 305 A.D. The museum was founded in 1889 and
has inherited preexisting collections.
Address: Piazza dei Cinquecento, 67
Open from: 9 a.m. up to 2 p.m., Sunday
from 9 a.m. up to 1 p.m. Closed on Monday.
Telephone: 0648903507
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Capitoline
Museums
 They
represent the most ancient collection in the world. In fact, the sculptural
works, kept here, have an inestimable artistic value.
The Capitoline Museums are divided into "Palazzo dei Conservatori"
and "Palazzo Nuovo" both in Capitol Square. They were founded
by Sisto IV in 1471, extended by Pio V and opened to visitors by Clemente
XII in 1734.
Address: Capitol Square
Open from 9 a.m. up to 7 p.m. Closed on
Monday
Ticket: L 10.000 (free for people under
18 and over 60)
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Music
A night at the opera is an unforgettable experience. The functional
fascist-era exterior of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma does not prepare
you for elegance and rich decoration of the 19th century interior
which is all read velvet and gold leaf plant.
Teatro dell'Opera
 Sede,
Piazza B.Gigli 1, Teatro Brancaccio, Via Merulana.
Tel. 06481601
Accademia S.Cecilia
Auditorio Via della Conciliazione, Sala Accademica, Via dei Greci
Tel. 0668801044
Accademia Filarmonica
Teatro Olimpico, Piazza gentile da Fabriano, Sala Casella, Via Flaminia,
118
Tel. 063201752
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Nightlife
 Roman
nightlife still retains some of the smart ethos satirized in Fellini's
Dolce Vita. Discos and clubs cover the range. There are vast glittering
palaces with stunning lights and sound systems, places that are not
much more than upmarket bars with music. And other, more down-to-earth
places to dance, playing a more interesting selection of music to
a younger crowd, offering an innovative alternative to the mainstream
scene, usually on a "pay what you can" basis. Whichever
you prefer, all tend to open and close late. Some charge a heavy entrance
fee, from L 10,000 to L 20,000, the more spectacular places as much
as L 35,000 to L 40,000 - though these often include one free drink.
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