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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.

Do not miss the occasion to visit Rome: book a room in  one of the hotels of Groupe Valadier. Its 4 hotels (Valadier, Zone, Diplomatic and Caprice) are situated in perfect positions, with the high quality of the mark Valadier: your holiday in Rome will be unforgettable!

Christmas is arriving and you have to program how to celebrate it. You can choose to spend this festivity with the family or you can instead organize a travel.

When you have chosen your destination you have to think at your accomodation: hotel, camping or hostel? You have to choose basing on your demands and taste. If you are searching comodity and peacefulness you can choose an hotel, whereas for another type of holiday you can consider the possibility of a camping.

Internet helps you to find the ideal accomodation for your holiday, through  a lot of informations and the possibility to book a room online. It is a simple method that permicts you to  save a lot of time.
In Rome Hotel Zone, a 4 star luxury hotel near Villa Borghese, offers the possibility to  make the reservation online.  You have simply to fill in the form with your personal data, arrival and departure date and the types of the rooms  (single, double, classic, superior, suite). Immediately  you will  observe the availability and the price of the room. A simple method to organize your holiday in Rome!

Hotel Zone is a 4 star luxury hotel, situated in a calm residential zone near the center; the ideal destination to find a relaxed accomodation.

The hotel has a modern style, with contemporary and essential design. Breakfast room, meeting room e fitness area favor every tipe of demands, with modern technologies.

Hotel Zone offers 70 rooms with every convenience: internet with wi-fi technology, plasma TV display with Italian and foreign channels, telephone, personal security box.

The client can choose three types of room: classic, superior or suite.  Superior and suite rooms offer a modern style, whereas classic rooms preserve a traditional design.

Guest can also use a a garage, an internet point and a free bus for visit the center of Rome.

You can book your room compling online a form or you can phone at 0039063611998.

“Museum of summer. When art becomes entertainment” will take place in Rome from the 1st July to the 13th September. This great festival will be rich in events and shows, which will take place in museums and art galleries. Opening in the evening hours will be also granted.

The event is promoted by the Cultural Policies Department of the City of Rome in cooperation with Zètema cultural project.
The events scheduled for this summer are:

• readings and performances outdoors, most of those based on unpublished works;
  
• concerts of classical and contemporary chamber music, performed in the courtyards of Roman museums;
• extraordinary openings of Ara Pacis, Mercati di Traiano and many others archaeological sites, usually closed to the public. There is the possibility of guided tours, also in the evening;
• Evening activities also in Technotown and at Planetarium.

You can find the schedule on the website www.museiincomuneroma.it. A nice chance to enjoy, during this summer’s evenings, the fascinating Rome’s underground, where you will be guided by historical expert.

The archaeological sites involved are: Ara Pacis, Mercati di Traiano, Musei Capitolini, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Planetarium, Technotown di Villa Torlonia, Auditorium di Mecenate, Excubitorium della VII Corte dei Vigili del Fuoco, Insula di San Paolo alla Regola, Ipogeo di Via Livenza, Stadio di Domiziano.
The events involve many interesting spots in Rome. As usual the capital offers various opportunities to spend pleasant evenings. “Museum of summer. When art becomes entertainment” is aimed to entertain citizens and tourists, with a special attention to the children.

If you want to spend a pleasant holyday in Rome, we would like to suggest to book in one of the Groupe Valadier Hotels. You just have many enteresting choices: the Hotel Valadier, Hotel Caprice and Hotel Diplomatic, all of them located near Piazza di Spagna, or maybe the Hotel Zone, close to the Vatican City. Whatever your preference is, Groupe Valadier will be able to meet your needs, so you can have a great and relaxing holyday.

What are you waiting for? Book now at Groupe Valadier Hotels for a spectacular stay !

The great popstar Madonna comes back to Italy, touring after her latest album “Hard Candy.”
The single Italian date is set for the 6th of September at the Olympic Stadium of Rome.

During 2000, Madonna Luis Veronica Ciccone was recognized as the most successful female artist of all times by Guinnes World Records, with an estimated worth of about $ 400 million. Since that moment Madonna’s career has always been on the rise. After her new album “Hard Candy“, a number one record according to charts around the world, Madonna will begin the Sweet & Sticky tour 2008. The long-awaited tour will start on the 23rd of August from Cardiff (Wales) and it will reach Rome on the 6th of September, after visiting some of the most important European cities.

The show will create a new musical and set design standard. We are all ready to dance on the notes of the new hits like “4 minutes” or “Give it to me“, but we would also like to sing the old hits of one of the greatest icons of pop music. The tickets for the concert are available online and they are much in demand!

The U.S. singer is ready to amaze her fans throughout the world. If the previous “Confessions Tour” was shocked by the showing of “Live To Hell,” in which Madonna sang tied to a cross, what will she present during her new shows? You will discover it by participating to this unique musical event: this will also be a great opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Rome.

You can enjoy the concert and, at the same time, have the opportunity of a pleasant holiday in Rome in September: you will find a warm, lovely climate to visit the city and its surroundings. We would then suggest to book in one of the Groupe Valadier Hotels, the Zone Hotel.

The Zone Hotel is a modern 4 star hotel and it is located in a elegant district inside a green area, ideal for a relaxing stay full of comforts. The hotel is located only 3.4 km far from the Olympic Stadium, which can be reached with the bus line 990.

Don’t miss Madonna’s concert in her single Italian date, book at Zone Hotel!

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 Romarock Festival takes place every year at Capannelle’s Hippodrome. It’s now become an unmissable event for rock and pop music.

In the last years, it has bring to Rome the most important italian and international artists, earning one of the first places in the best European musical events.

The Romarock Festival 2008 will take place from June 30th to July 26th. It’s going to offer concerts to a heterogeneous audience exciting the youngest and the adult audience, with rock music, elegant ambiances and electronic sounds. One of the greatest italian singer-songwriter, Francesco De Gregori, will open the festival on June 30th. This will be the first date of his new summer tour “Live in Summer” .

The concerts scheduled for summer 2008 at Romarock festival are:

• June 30th – Francesco De Gregori
• July 3rd – Subsonica
• July 4th – Fabrizio Moro
• July 6th – Tokio Hotel
• July 11th – Pino Daniele
• July 14th – Diavan
• July 15th – Fiorella Mannoia
• July 16th – Duran Duran
• July 18th – Massive Attack
• July 19th – Max Pezzali
• July 24th – Finley
• July 26th – Ben Harper

If you like to attend at one of Romarock Festival’s events, an option to stay in Rome is to choose one of Groupe Valadier’s hotels: Valadier Hotel, Zone Hotel, Diplomatic Hotel and Caprice Hotel. Choosing between our 3 and 4 stars hotels, you will surely find the best solution for you, depending on your taste. Book now your stay in Rome on our website www.helpinrome.com.

On June 20-21 2008, the fourth S.I.GLA. National Congress will be held in Rome at Gemelli general Hospital. The Italian Society of Glaucoma (S.I.GLA) is a nonprofit affiliation with these intents:

• Encourage the diffusion of knowledge about glaucoma
• Support scientific research on this topic
• Organize courses and meetings on glaucoma
  
• Promote editorial activities and communicate to the public

  

S.I.GLA’s associates and all the people who wants to know more about this topic, could participate at the IV annual congress entitled “Glaucoma: diagnosis and therapy”. Some theoric-pratic courses are scheduled for 19 June Thursday. The congress will be held on June 20 and 21 with different sessions in the works with topics on surgery, therapy and clinical cases.

S.I.GLA congress will be held in the Aula Magna of del Rome’s Gemelli general hospital, few kilometers far from Zone Hotel.

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Booking at Zone Hotel you will have the possibility of join work and relax. Thanks to the high speed wireless connection you can bring the work “home” even at your hotel. On the contrary, if you want to relax after the congress you can take advantage of the comforts that only a luxury hotel like our own has. Wide screen satellite TV, minibar, wellness area, free shuttle service to go and come back to the center.

If you want to attend S.I.GLA congress and you don’t know where to stay, choose Zone Hotel. It is a fantastic choice that join luxurious comforts with a central position to visit the italian capital city. Book in advance one of the on the 70 rooms of Zone Hotel on our website www.helpinrome.com. You can choose between three different typology of rooms: classic, superior and suites.

From the 3rd until the 18th of May, the BNL International tennis masters series will be held to the Foro Italico in Rome. Men’s tournament will take place from the 3rd until 11th of May, while from 12th to 18th May there will be the women’s tournament.

In last edition, concerning men’s category, the Spanish champion Rafael Nadal won beating the Argentine Guillermo Coria. Instead, for women’s category, the winner was Jelena Jankovic, that is the favorite for 2008 edition.

This year red ground’s lovers could assist at the challenge between world number one tennis player. At the same time, you could have the possibility of watching the champion John McEnroe who will play again in the competion of ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). For additional information, result and tickets you can visit the official site of the tournament.

Every year more than one hundred thousand people participate at this event. If you don’t want to miss this appointment with sport, you might book your stay in Zone Hotel, a four star luxury hotel that is only 3 km far from the Foro Italico. Moreover you can take advantage of its central position by visiting the historical center of the city, the most important museums of Rome and the Vatican city, that are few minutes far from Zone Hotel.

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Are you dreaming about a luxurious and relaxing holiday in Rome? Are you looking for an accomodation in Rome close to the main monuments that have made the Italian capital famous all over the world? The 4 star Zone Hotel is the solution at your needs.

The Zone hotel can satisfy you thanks to its modern and welcoming appeal. Inside the hotel you can find all the things that you need in order to spend a relaxing stay in Rome.

If you are in Rome for business reasons, you can train into the fitness room to release the stress of the day. You can even relax after a day of hard work in the wellness area oh the Zone Hotel.

Zone Hotel offers 70 elegant rooms, equipped with all the comforts, such as satellite plasma TV and High-speed wireless Internet. Otherwise, if you decide to book your stay in a suite, you could relax into the whirlpool bath, having a rest afterthe entire day spent walking through Roma streets.

The Zone Hotel also offers you a free shuttle service to go and come back in Rome’s centre. If yours is a business stay in Rome you can take advantage of the fully equipped conference room with wireless Internet access.

Are you still thinking about it? Come on and book a room at Zone hotel clicking www.helpinrome.com or, if you have already been our guest, comment this blog, in order to let us improve our service.