Estate Romana, to live the Cittá Eterna
August 14, 2008
For more than 30 years, Roma holds in Summer time a rich offer of cultural and leisure activities. From concerts and exhibitions to theatre, dance, cinema, lectures, and children activities…
If you are lucky to be in Rome this Summer, the Estate Romana is the perfect occasion for living the city in a very special way.
The options are infinite. Any night, in every square something is always happening. Just a quick look to the website is enough to realize how difficult is to chose only one event (www.estateromana.com)
Even museums dress specially for the occasion, organizing visits around places usually closed to the general public, such as Ara Pacis, Trayano markets and other places of archeological interest (www.museiincomuneroma.it)
Music plays a leading role at the Estate Romana. At the villa Celimontana you will find the International Jazz Festival, but for classical and opera music lovers there is the Belcanto Festival in the Auditorium Palazzo Della Musica or the Termas Caracalla, another impressive historic stage in the city, where you usually find the most important pieces of lyric.
Other genres can be enjoyed, like ethnic music in Rom incontra il mondo (near the Villa Ada Lake), and Rock concerts in several stages.
The Coliseum is also present in the program. Every night until the 6th September, it is shown All´ombra del Colosseo, a comedy festival with stand up comedians, cabaret performances, theatre … all of this at only a few metres of the most famous roman circus in the world.
Another interesting event is the Cinema Island, name with which the Isola Tiberina is also known as during Summer time, and located by the Tevere River, with cinema activities, poetry and dance (www.isoladelcinema.com)
In short, a wide, original and accessible program for everybody, in which tourists and locals merge to discover, once again, that Rome is the one and only Cittá Eterna.
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