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From the 19th June to the 17th August there will be Fiesta! at Ippodromo di Capannelle, the great International Festival of Latin American Culture and Music.

The festival has come to its fourteenth edition an it is now a favourite occasion loved by many. If you love dancing to the rhythm of South American music, then you only have to choose between the many events scheduled for the Festival. The best international artists will perform playing Brazilian rhytms, bachata, drums and traditional Latin music.

The roman capital will dance for the whole summer and it will be embraced by warm Caribbean Atmospheres. The admission to Fiesta is available also when concerts are not scheduled. In July, two of the most important concerts have seen on stage Marc Anthony, who came to Italy together with his wife Jennifer Lopez and their twins, and also Aventura. Terra Samba will be on stage during the night of August 10th.

This is a great opportunity to enjoy special music nights together with the visit of the beautiful city of Rome. In order to ensure you a pleasant holiday in Rome, we would like to recommend to you one of the Groupe Valadier’s Hotels. Diplomatic Hotel, for example, is located just a few minutes away from Piazza Navona, a great starting point in order to visit the heart of the city. From this very location you can easily reach Ippodromo di Capannelle by car or with public transport.

Diplomatic Hotel is a 3 star Hotel and it has 45 air-conditioned rooms. All of them are beautifully furnished, with a touch of Italian classic elegance. Book now your relax in Rome and amazing evenings of Fiesta!
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The Nike Human Race 2008 is a great running event involving people from all over the world: it will also take place in Rome on the 31st of August 2008, together with 24 other cities in the planet. This event will collect millions of runner who will run together in a 10 km long run.

In order to run the race, you will need to register at www.nikeplus.com: you can decide to run as competitive as well as non competitive.

The registration fee is 25 euros: part of this money will support one of these charities associations: ONU Agency for the Refugees, Lance Armstrong Foundation and WWF. The income will be proportionately distributed in comparison to the kilometers traveled by each participant.

The start will be in Viale delle Terme di Caracalla at 8:00 pm. The route, which will be 10 Km long, has been planned to pass by the most important monuments and historical places in Rome, like the Colosseum, Piazza Navona and Piazza di Spagna. The race will end inside Circo Massimo, where there will be a music concert involving lots of artists, including the Italian band Subsonica.

You can’t absolutely miss this unique event combining sport, music and charity. In order to satisfy those who are sports enthusiasts and those who want just walk in the city enjoying the show, we would like to suggest a nice stay in Rome and book at Caprice Hotel.

Caprice Hotel is located in a strategic position, between Spagna Steps and Vatican City. It is located near the route of the Human Race and quite close to Circo Massimo. It is the best solution to relax after the race and enjoy all the comforts proposed by the Hotel.

Take the opportunity to combine a visit in the beautiful city of Rome with your Human Race 2008, book now at Caprice Hotel!

The Rome Jazz & Image festival in Villa Celimontana is an event that lets people enjoy jazz music in Rome since 1993.

This jazz music event will last till the 15th of August and counts a lot of open-air concerts in Villa Celimotana.

The so called “Jazz Villa” is close to Palatino and Terme di Caracalla, just some of the best ruins of the capital.

A striking atmoshere, made by lights, statues, plants, architectures, will embrace the audience in these roman music nights.

The Jazz & Image Festival schedule is available on-line: there are prime and second time shows which are waiting for your ears!

Villa Celimontana, the location in which the Jazz & Image festival takes place, is very easy to reach because it is very close to many bus or metro stops, like the “Colosseum” Metro B stop.

Those who love Jazz music will also appreciate the roman culture and the magnificent past of the Italian capital: Roma has a never ending quantity of artistic and architectural pieces. It is possible to combine a cultural journey with the Jazz & Image Festival by booking an accomodation in Rome.

We would like to suggest two Groupe Valadier hotels in a position which is strategic in order to let you visit the city:

• Diplomatic Hotel: with its elegant structure, it is very close to many tourist attractions such as Castel Sant’ Angelo or Vatican City and you could admire Trevi Fountain or Navona Square simply by crossing the Tevere river.
• Caprice Hotel: recently restored, it is located in Via Veneto, the Dolce Vita street, full of boutiques and cafés and a few steps from Villa Borghese, a city park in wich you can relax .

What are you waiting for? Do not miss the Jazz & Image festival in Villa Celimontana and the Roman beauties: book now one of Groupe Valadier Hotels.
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Luciano Ligabue is one of the biggest stars of 2008 live music, thanks to his European tour and the new tour of July into the Italian stadiums. After having perfomed in the entire Europe, reaching the cities of Amsterdam, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Zurich and London, Ligabue is back in Italy for the month of July.

Summer 2008 will be very hot for Luciano Ligabue, how has announced five stages in five Italian stadiums. His tour is entitled

A curiosity about this event is the fact of being an “Impact Zero” concert. Impact Zero® is an initiative promoted by Lifegate, that tries to reduce all CO2 emissions, according to the Kyoto Protocol, and compensate them by creating new forests. To compensate the 592.511 Kilos of CO2 that will be produced by his tour, Ligabue will make plant 152.906 square meters of forest.

Zone Hotel of Group Valadier, is the best solution to partecipate at this event and to relax at the same time during your stay in Rome. With his fantastic position, you will be able to reach the Olympic Stadium in few minutes, that is only 3,4 kilometers far from the Hotel. Click here to see the route with the bus line 990. Moreover Zone Hotel is few minutes far from the center and from the Vatican City.

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Book now one of the 70 rooms of Zone Hotel on the website www.helpinrome.com/EN and participare to Ligabue’s concert at Rome Olympic Stadium!

The “Agenzia della Moda” (Agency for Fashion) was born in 1998 by the Rome Chamber of Commerce and Municipality’s will.

Then, with the help and contribute of private partners, this society born to promote and revalue the Roman haute couture turned its name into “Alta Roma Spa”.

Through the fashion shows runways scenographies Alta Roma Spa wants to give a renewed value to the Italian Capital’s spaces and monuments: just another way to conciliate creativity, style, culture, traditions.

This year, the rendez-vous with “Alta Roma Alta Moda” is waiting for you from the 6th to the 11th of July at the “Auditorium del Parco della Musica” and the “Santo Spirito in Sassia” Church, in the heart of Rome, in order to show you Italian fashion designers’ new ideas.

As every year happens, the Group Valadier’s Hotels are ready to host all those people who comes to Rome to participate to the Alta Roma fashion event and who obviously have to find an accomodation in Rome for its all duration.

If you are just spectators, or promoters or, why not, interpreters of the various scheduled events and fashion shows what are you waiting for? Book your hotel in Rome with Helpin Rome and enjoy Alta Roma Alta Moda!