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Until January 6, in occasion of Christmas festivity, the City of Rome organizes “Roma città Natale. Una festa unica al mondo”.

For the first time cultural and enjoying events are co-ordinated by  public institutions to increase the quality of the proposal giving magical moments to Romans and tourists. In every part of the city the atmosphere will be magic with  creches,  music, traditional songs, concerts, children games, exhibitions and Christmas decorations. Special openings of museums and charitable initiatives will be organized.

A brilliant proposal can be the concert “Happy Christmas for Rome”,  with the presence of  the Spanish  soprano Montserrat Caballè, at “Santa Maria Madre del Redentore” church.

For tourists there is the convenient card ROME PASS that costs 20 € and permicts the free entrance at the first two museums visited, free use of public transports and reduced price  for the following museums or  archaeological sites.

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Until January 25 the National Gallery of Modern Art is going to host the exhibition “Giorgio de Chirico and Greece. A journey through memory”, organized by “Giorgio and Isa De Chirico Institute”.

This artistic event in Rome exposes more than 100 artworks realized by Giorgio De Chirico, the most important exponent of metaphysics painting, in occasion of the anniversary of 30 years by his death.

The influences of the classical world and an innovative pictorial language melt to create a final work that is not a simple imitation, but it is an imaginative reinterpretation. So the paintings ispired by Michelangelo, Tintoretto and Rubens are eleborated in metaphysics sense,  with the contemporaneus presence of myhological theme and classical figures.

The exhibition, organized in six sections, is opened by Tuesday to Sunday from 8,30 a.m. to 7,30 p.m. The full entrance is 9 €.

If you want to stay some days in Rome, choose the Hotel Valadier! Only 500 metres far from  National Gallery of Modern Art, this 4 star luxury hotel is in a perfect position to make a turistic tour of the city.

Until January 6 the “Sala del Bramante” in Rome is going to host “100 Creches Exhibition“.

Every year, with Christmas festivity,  the fascination and the tradition  of creche revive, as genuine element of Christmas celebration, in different  places as habitations, schools, churchs and offices.

Since 1976 “100 Creches Exhibition” exposes more than 200 creches, coming from Italy and other 25 countries of every continent.  People can admire classical Neapolitan creches from 1600, Roman creches from 1800, figurines realized with precious metal or rejected materials, man-height figurines or miniatures. There are different works, but these pieces have as common point the values of peace and brotherhood spread by Christ’s Nativity.

The exhibition is accompanied by an interessant Workshop for children from 4 to 11 years, that personally realize a figurine of creche with the guidance of specialized staff.

The exhibition is opened from Monday to Sunday from 9,30 a.m. to 8p.m. (until 10 p.m. on December 25, 26, 27 and on January 3,4,5). The full entrance is 4,50 € (5 € on Saturdays, Sundays or  public holiday).

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Until December 11 the “Auditorium Parco della Musica” is going to host the exhibition “100 years of Orchestra of Santa Cecilia”.

This artistic and musical event in Rome is organized by Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia with the collaboration of Studio Azzurro, in occasion of the centenary of the fondation of the orchestra, that represents the history of Italian symphonic music through 14.000 concerts.

The exhibition is not only the story of the successes of these 100 years of artistic work, but it involves the visitor recalling dreamy dimension and emotions offered by music. Through the technologies of Studio Azzurro, there are free figures in the space (as they were musicians in air without gravity) that are moved by the public with a special sensitive wand. It creates an orchestral score that corresponds to gesture and movements of the wand, with the sound of the music in the air.

In the second room, three interactive stations permict the visitor to deepen the  history of the orcherstra  through a virtual tour in multi-media file of Accademia.

The entrance is free. The exhibition is opened from Mondays to Sundays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

If you want to stop some days in Rome, Hotel Valadier is the better solution for you. In central position,  Hotel Valadier is a 4 star luxury hotel situated in an ancient restructured palace, with 4 types of rooms to satisfy every demand of the client!

Rome is the most famous city in the world and offers rare beauties of art and culture. Italian capital city offers structure for all necessities: hostels, camping, residence and hotels  for every type of request.

For the visitor that does not want to rinunce to elegance and comfort  a perfect solution is the category of luxury hotels.  In the outskirts or in the center of the city (as Hotel Valadier for example) this type of hotel offers comfort, elegance and peacefulness.

Hotel Valadier, for example, is a 4 star luxury hotel situated in an ancient building near the district of Villa Borghese; offers 68 rooms, furnished with elegance, refinement and with the best choice of materials. Advanced technologies as plasma TV display and Internet wi-fi give a complete relax at the client.

Hotel Valadier permict its client to easily book the room online. Visit the Internet site to find all the informations: book your room immediately!

Until March 1th the Museum of Roman Culture is going to host the exhibition “The star is drawin. A stroll with Gilles Chaillet amongst signs and drawings through the Rome of the Caesars”, organized by Vivalibri.

In the rooms can be admired 20 originals drawings by Gilles Chaillet, loaned by Archaeological Musem of Arles. Visiting the exhibition is a virtual walk in the ancient Rome, in all its details, building by building.

Sunsequently the visitor explores the spectacular and famous model of the city of Rome, realized by Italo Gismondi. There are a lot of multi-media stations with virtual visits, videos and descriptions on monuments.

The exhibition is opened by Tuesday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The entrance ticket is 6,50 € and permicts the complete visit of Museum of Roman Culture, with its 59 sections and more than 12000 square metres of expositions.

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Until November 30 the “Auditorium Parco della Musica” is going to host the 32th edition of Roma Jazz Festival, organized by “Accademia Santa Cecilia”, “Casa del Jazz” and “Goethe Institut”.

This traditional musical event has projected Rome as Italian capital city of jazz, with one of the most important festival in Europe (more than 200 artists).

The section “Focus Orchestras” refers to historical jazz orchestras from 1940 to the present. “Events” is a part dedicated to musical events of national and international jazz in the last 50 years. To complete the festival there will be four concerts, presented for the first time in Italy: Terez Montcalm, Yael Naim, Chiciro Yamanaka and the couple composed by Paolo Fresu and Ralph Towner.

For all the details about tickets you can consulte the Internet site of Auditorium Parco della Musica.

To not miss this occasion book a room at Hotel Valadier! With its central position and its high level of comfort, your stay in Rome will be unforgettable!

If you want to stay some days in Rome, do not miss the quality of Hotel Valadier of Groupe Valadier, the roman mark of luxury hotels.

At Hotel Valadier, situated in an old restructured palace,  you will find a room furnished to favor every your desire. The hotel offers 70 rooms  with 4 different styles: classic, superior, bamboo or suite.

Every style is studied in single details to favor all the  demands.  If you prefer  decorations of woods and appreciated marbles you can choose classic style; if you love the “minimalistic” design there is bamboo style, characterized by essential lines that create a relaxed atmosphere. Choose superior style if you prefer large spaces with beautiful ancient furnishings. The suites are instead the ideal solution if you want to discover the atmosphere and the authentic style of the palace.

You can book a room online visiting the site Help In Rome, where you can find detailed informations  on prices and availability.

Until December the 10th the central room of “Complesso del Vittoriano” in Rome is going to host “Luciano Pavarotti - L’uomo che emozionò il mondo“, an exhibition organized by Nicoletta Mantovani and Alessandro Nicosia.

The exhibition “Luciano Pavarotti - L’uomo che emozionò il mondo” in Rome explores 40 years of the artist’s career, observing also a lot of private aspects in Luciano Pavarotti ’s life, as his passion for painting and horseback riding.

The exhibition is composed by 29 Pavarotti’s paintings, enriched by covers of disks, posters, cd, prizes, costumes e some letters received by Lady Diana, Frank Sinatra, Kofi Annan and other famous people. Some videos of the artist flow on a big screen, with the sound of the most famous singer’s executions.

The entrance to the exhibition is free for Nicoletta Mantovani’s (his widow) wish; it is opened from Monday to Thursday from 9,30 a.m. to 7,30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 9,30 a.m. to 11,30 p.m. and Sunday from 9,30 a.m. to 8,30 p.m.

Do not miss the occasion to visit the exhibition making also a tour in the beautiful city of Rome. Book a room at Hotel Valadier : it is only 2 km far from Complesso del Vittoriano, in a perfect position for a tourist tour in Rome.

Until November 24 the “Galleria Agostiniana” in “S. Maria del Popolo” in Rome is going to host the exhibition “Il Genio di Leonardo da Vinci” , organized by Associazione Anthropos.

In “Galleria Agostiniana” for the first time it is possibile to admire flying machines, war machines and civil engineering projects, reproduced following drawings and designs by Leonardo Da Vinci. That reproductions are working and realized with wood, metal and cloth.

In the exhibition “Il Genio di Leonardo da Vinci” you could also obersve Leonardo’s drawings and the copies of Leonardo’s Codes.

The interactivity of the exhibition “Il genio di Leonardo da Vinci” in Rome makes it become an interesting ad amusing event for adults and children, that can maneuver these spectacular machines.

The exhibition is opened from Monday to Sunday from 9,30 a.m. to 8,30 p.m. (full entrance 6 €, students 3 €, free entrance for teachers).

If you want to stay some days in Rome, book a room at Hotel Valadier: it is very far from artistic beauties as Trinità dei Monti, Fontana di Trevi, Pantheon and Piazza Navona.