Museum of Roman Civilization

The Museum has both documentary and educational value, in that the material on display is essentially made up of reproductions of xamples of classical archaeology which have either been lost or destroyed or of works, which have been pieced back together.

There are mainly moulds of statues, busts, inscriptions, reliefs and of life-size parts of buildings, of plastic models of monuments and architectonic complexes of Rome and of the provinces of the Roman Empire, as well as evidence of the so-called “material culture” such as furnishings, objects of domestic use and work tools.

The Museum is divided into 59 sections that cover a surface area of 13,000square metres, for a wall development of 3 kilometres and a height of about 10 metres: such dimensions obviously make it possible to reconstruct, completely or partly, buildings and monuments of the ancient Roman world.

The first fourteen rooms house an historical summary of the origins of Rome until VI century A.D., which includes a map that illustrates the progressive expansion of the Roman Empire, the portraits of emperors and illustrious men including Caesar, Augustus, Claudius, Nero, Brutus, Pompeus, Cicero, and plastic models of numerous Augustan, Trajan, Severian and Aurelian monuments.
There are moulds of inscriptions and early Christian reliefs and sarcophaghi including that in porphyry of Costantina, the daughter of emperor Constantine, that of urban prefect Giunio Basso and that of St. Ambrose on exhibit in the section dedicated to Christianity.

Among the numerous other sections that reconstruct Roman civilization in its varying aspects in detail, from public life to everyday life, there are those dedicated to the military sectors of the army and navy, that of the ports and provinces of the empire, a section dedicated to baths, aqueducts, nymphaea and reservoirs and a section illustrating theatres, amphitheatres, circuses and arenas with plastic models of the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcello in Rome.

The complete series of moulds of the Trajan Column deserves a special mention, there are reliefs that illustrate the two military campaigns of the emperor Trajan against the Dacians (101-102 and 105-106 A.D.) and the plastic model of Rome (scale: 1:250; surface:200 metres squared), created by architect Italo Gismondi, which reproduces the city as it was presented at the time of the emperor Constantine, and it is reconstructed on the basis of results and research and excavation campagins carried out over the years.

It’s construction had started for the Augustan Exhibition of the Roman World in 1937, it was completed in the seventies and is a useful instrument in learning about the ancient city, in an interesting comparison with the aspects that the same presents today.

Address: Piazza Giovanni Agnelli, 10
Visiting Hours: Every day from 9 am to 2 pm.
Sundays from 9 am to 1.30 pm.
Closed on Mondays, Dec. 25, Jan. 1
Price: € 6,50; reduced € 4,50

http://en.turismoroma.it/

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The Roma Pass

For only 23 Euro get benefits and services across the city. Promoted by Rome Council, the Culture Ministry and working in conjunction with public transport the cit's tourist card offers discounts and services which make museum visits easier. Enjoy the beauty of Rome with greater ease.
From 1 January 2009 the Roma Pass kit will offer even more! In the New Year you’ll also receive health care and access to the city’s bike sharing scheme. You already get free access to your first two museums or archaeological sites, free movement on the entire public transport network and reductions on entrance to other museums, exhibitions, shows or dance productions that take your fancy. Moreover, to get even more from your card we have recently added “Travel Health.” It allows tourists to access a dedicated health assistance service for first aid advice and direction to either private or public structures according to your needs and condition.
The pass lasts 3 days after stamping it, costs 23 euro but offers services that a worth over 40 Euro and at all sites and events you have preferential access.
Roma Pass is available at: • All Museums and Sites participating• Rome Council Tourist Information Points • Rome Tourist Promotion Company - APT - Via Parigi, 5 • Bioparco - Rome Zoological Garden• Complesso del Vittoriano• Trambus Open - Piazza dei Cinquecento
Included in your pack are:• Roma Pass Transport: Your public transport ticket.• Roma MAP: The map shows you the Tourist Information Kiosks (PITs), metro stations, museums/sites with address, telephone number and bus, metro, coach and train numbers with timetables.• Roma Pass Guide: The list of museums/sites in the scheme.• Roma & Più News: The programme of events and tourism services for which discounts are valid and where they apply by category: art, music, theatre, dance, entertainment and public transport.
Roma Pass
How to Use itFill in the back with your name and surname. Activate it with your first visit to a site/museum by adding the date of that visit. For the second site show your card at the entrance. From the third site onwards go to the ticket office to receive your discount. You must always carry the card with legal ID. The card expires 3 calendar days from activation.
Roma & Pass TransportFree access to ATAC buses, metro lines A and B, Met.Ro trains, Rome – Osita Lido, Rome - Viterbo (Rome - Sacrofano section), Rome - Pantano.
How to Use itThe card is exclusively available with Roma & Più Pass and is valid for three zones and for an unlimited number of journeys. You activate it on the first trip by filling in your name, surname and stamping it with date and the code of the area of validity (zone A or zone B). Show it when boarding together with an identity document if requested by staff. It expires at midnight on the third calendar day of use.
Roma Pass Travel Health MET
Health assistance service for the first level of intervention and response.
Related Costs:
- the service is free to possessors of the Roma Pass.
- telephoning the Medical Call Centre is based on the local telephone rates.
How it works:
- the number to call is +39 06 83496311 (at the local rate)- it is a multilingual Call Center (English, French or Spanish). - it registers the referral code from the Roma Pass.- provides all the information needed for the case and directs the tourist, when necessary, to the public and private healthcare facilities based an the pathology predented.- The service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Antiques Markets in Rome

Antiques, collectables, new and used clothing, shoes, vinyl and CDs are all up for grabs at weekend markets located along some of Rome’s most frequented streets and squares.
For those who are always looking for something original, or something that is no longer fashionable, the antiques markets are the place to go. These markets offer all kinds of competitively priced goods.
Below are among the most well-known:

• Porta Portese
Is the most famous and biggest of Rome’s markets.
It covers an area that runs from Piazza Ippolito Nievo to via Ettore Rolli on one axis and via Portuense to Porta Omonima on the other. The market has over 1000 stands and goods of every kind from antique furniture to imitation designer shoes and stamps to kitchen utensils as well as collectables of every kind. It is extremely crowded and requires several hours to visit. It is open every Sunday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.Website: http://www.portaportesemarket.it/

• The Ponte Milvio Market
has antiques on every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month.
Whereas, the 3rd Sunday features handcrafted products. The market is open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and can be found in Piazzale di Ponte Milvio near Torretta Valadier. Call +39 335 5804254 for info.

• The Antiquariato in Piazza Verdi
is open every 4th Sunday of the month from 9:00 am to dusk. It is held in Piazza Giuseppe Verdi. Call +39 06 8552723 – 8552773 for info.

• The Stamp market in Largo della Fontanella Borghese
Is held on Mondays and Saturdays from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm and features stamps and books.

• The Via Sannio Market
Takes its name from the street that hosts it. Open Mondays to Saturdays from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm, the market offers new and used clothes, shoes and haberdashery. Via Sannio is close to San Giovanni in Lateran.

• Borghetto Flaminio
One of the capital’s most noted antiques markets, is found in Piazza della Marina 32 and is open every Sunday (except in August) from 10:00 am to 7:00pm. Call +39 06 5880517 for info.


For a complete list of markets call +39 060608 or visit http://www.060608.it/

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Rose Garden

Another place in Rome in which i like to spend at least a relaxing half day couple of times a year is the municipal rose garden, on the Aventine Hill, directly opposite to the Circus Maximus and the Neronian Domus Aurea.

The rose garden, divided from the Via di Valle Murcia into two distinct sections - one more upstream and more extended, and the other at valley - home of more than a thousand species of roses from around the world, it is considered a good ground among the most beautiful in the world, both for the quality of the flowers and for the panoramic glance that offers.

Its curious that it is located in an area occupied from 1645 until 1895 from the Jewish cemetery;until the first half of the seventeenth century, the Roman Jewish community, could not bury their dead in Christian territory so they used land situated within the old Porta Porteseout of the vativcan land and curiously here since the third century a.C. stood the temple dedicated to the Goddess Flora, protector of flowers: in the same spot where now stands the rose garden.

The creation of the municipal rose garden is thanks to a lady of Pennsylvania, Countess Mary Gayley Senni lover of roses she used to grew dozens of this flowers in her properties in Grottaferrata near Rome.

In 1924 she donated the plants to the City, but then, not satisfied with the arrangements in a simple flowerbed on the Pincio, eight years later, saw her dream came true,the construction of a real rose garden.

The next year was held the first edition of the Rome Rose Prize,and the countess honorary member of the jury.

In the highest section of the extensive rose garden there is the real collection of roses.

There are traditional varieties, and modern hybrids and plants are distributed in different areas, depending on the different species.

The downstream section is where is placed the annual contest. while in the oval, are located only roses that have been winners in previous editions.

Roses most curious to be admired are the "Monstrosa " with green petals , " Omeiensis Pteracantha "with red and transparent thorn, viewedin backlight, lights up like a lamp, the rose that changes color several times in few days; the rose that emanates a strong smell of incense, and the North American variety "Knock Out", able to resist even at 30 degrees below zero.

In addition to a paradise of colors, scents and tranquility, the rose garden is obviously a haven for photographers as they can "immortalize" roses among the most beautiful in the world. not of less value, as I said, is the stunnig panorama "outside" the rose garden it offers a view that range from the Circus Maximus to the Domus Aurea, San Pietro and to the thousand domes of Rome.

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Roman Pasta Matriciana

Inspired by one of the most beautiful "cooking" poems of one of my favorite actors, Aldo Fabrizi, great character of the "true" Rome (born and lived close to Campo de Fiori);

here's for you the recipe for original and inimitable pasta all'Amatriciana.

INGREDIENTS:

500 gr. of Pasta, Spaghetti or Bucatini

100 gr. Guanciale(Bacon) of pork, fat and cut quite thick

500 gr. of ripe tomatoes San Marzano or canned tomatoes 100 gr.

Pecorino cheese (wishing you could mix in Parmesan cheese)

A couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

1 / 2 cup dry white wine Chilli (not too much).

PROCEDURE:

Boiled for a few seconds the tomatoespassing them under the cold water and peel, then cut them into strips. If using canned tomatoes, chopped up first by hands or pinched in a pan with a fork.

Cut the bacon in strips (but not too thin, better strips about ½ inch of width) and place it in a preferably iron frying pan, with the oil and let brown a lively fire for few minutes until the bacon gets golden .

A nearly finished cooking add a little chili pepper, moisten with the wine and once it has exhaled remove the pieces of bacon from the pan , keeping aside, possibly warm in a cup covered with aluminum foil.

Put in the same pan the tomatoes, a pinch of salt and cook a lively fire for some minutes (10-15). Replace the bacon in the pan, stirring for about one minute.

Meanwhile drain the pasta "al dente" and pour into a container, preferably preheated.

Combine all the ingredients adding the pecorino (perhaps mixing a little 'of parmesan cheese, to get a taste less strong).

The origin of the name of this condiment is controversial it comes from Amatrice, a country in the province of Rieti, not far from rome Rome.

When this dish was born amatriciana was to be the main meal of the shepherds, then many, for its simplicity and quick to prepare.

Originally it was without the tomato and it was called "Gricia".

The amatriciana is a perfect summary of cuisine inside the territories of central Italy, as to be almost "mythologized" and has now become the protagonist of a festival in the streets which, every year in August, takes place both at Amatrice and in Rome, in the Campo de 'Fiori "homeland" of Aldo Fabrizi.

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Protestant Cemetery in Rome

It's Not a graveyard "whatever" but the Protestant Cemetery
in Rome.
The Church in the'600 and'700, forbade non-Catholics (as well as suicides, prostitutes and actors) to be buried in Christian territory, so had to create new areas where buried, rigorously at night, those bodies, just outside the city walls.
For this reason existed at the time, a cemetery of the actors (at Porta Pinciana)
and one of the Jews (in the area where now stands the Municipal Rose Garden, on the Aventine hill).

The cemetery which I will speak accomodates "non-Catholic" of all nationalities: Italian (Gadda; Gramsci), American (Corso, poet of the Beat Generation, Simmons, sculptor and painter; Wetmore, sculptor, author of the wonderful "Angel of pain"), Russian Chinese Greek and mostly German (Goethe's son, the architect Semper) and English (Severn, American consul in Rome and a friend of Keats, next to which is buried).

Among the refined paths, surrounded by green hedges, pine and cypress trees you can see the graves of John Keats (1795 - 1821, died of tuberculosis in Rome, and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) sunk with his ship in the waters of Tuscany. His tomb is in the shadow of the Aurelian Walls.
A particularly romantic, although little 'macabre, relates to his death: his body was cremated
at Viareggio but his friend Trelawny "pulled" his heart from the flame of his and led it to his widow, Mary (famous author of novel Frankenstein).

The cemetery, lies between the Porta San Paolo (formerly called Ostiensis), the Pyramid of Caius Cestius, the Aurelian Walls and the Monte Testaccio.



The site, also widely known as the Protestant Cemetery , is one of the oldest burial grounds in continuous use
In Europe. It is a great and suggestive place to visit I strongly recommend

It is hard to think of another urban site quite so glorious.

Its towering cypress trees and abundant flowers and greenery shelter a heterogeneity of elaborate and eclectic graves and monuments.



"It might make one in love with death, to think that
one should be buried in so sweet a place" wrote Shelley, not long before he drowned and was buried here.

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Cheese of Castelli Romani

Its hard not find cheese, on an Italian table, actually... its quite impossible!

The typical cheese, in the Castelli Romani area, are: the 'Roman Pecorino', 'Roman Caciotta', 'Ricotta Romana' and the 'Canestrato'. All these cheeses, are made, totally or partially, from sheep's milk. Sheep, in Italian, is 'pecora'. From here the name 'pecorino'.

The roman pecorino, its one of the most ancient cheese made, very famous and highly appreciated, in Italy and throughout the world. This cheese its entirely made of whole sheep milk, and has a typical aroma and a spicy flavor, giving a particular tasty flavor to first courses, especially on pastas.

The 'Canestrato', it's a direct derivate of the above mentioned pecorino cheese. His name derives from the fact that its made by being pressed into a 'canestro' - Italian word for wicker basket - of which pattern, will show on the cheese itself.
The Caciotta Romana its, usually, a fresh cheese, but, in can also be, sometimes seasoned, having a more marked flavor.

This cheese presents itself quite compact, white in color, which can end up in a light straw-colored shade. One of the most popular cheeses, its sells over 30.000 Kg, its shaped as a cylinder, 7 Cm in height, from 1 to 3 Kg in weight.

Excellent with 'fave romanesche' - roman broad beans - and over some pasta dish. Top of the line, thinly sliced on a nice, and rich, salad dish. One more hint: with potatoes or field mushrooms, makes an excellent, and light, second dish. Mixed 'Caciotta', are made by mixing sheep and cow milk. They are tasty and spicy, typical of the Roman countryside. Its shape is low and round, not less than three kilos in weight.
The great demand is for the 'Ricotta Romana' - Ricotta cheese - a firm, dry and compact cheese. Made from cow buffalo, sheep, goat and/or mixed cheeses.Never the less these products of the Roman countryside, produced with modern technologies, still retain all the fragrance of the old times past, and those characteristics such as: being natural, high quality and, above all, nourishment.

Cheese has always been found on most popular tables, mainly used for fast snacks and, also, for long trips - dried - since its simple to make, it goes well with bread, wine and other local goodies. It's a fast meal, complete and efficient and, above all... satisfying and filling! Can be preserved in a water solution, or spiced with thyme, pine seeds, and pepper. Excellent are the small 'ricottine' - same classic shape as a ricotta, but smaller - usually eaten with grilled bacon, porcini mushrooms and various salads. Don't miss these cheeses of you take a trip to the Castelli Romani... enjoy!

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Shopping in Trastevere

Finding just the right gift to take home for someone can be as much fun for the giver as for the recipient. These Trastevere shops, located across the Tiber from the city center, all provide unique and useful gift ideas. You will find here one-of-a-kind places with their own singular ambiance. Sometimes hard to spot, tucked away in corners and having non-descript doorways, it isn't always obvious what treasures are hidden inside.

Ceramica D'Arte:
Weaving a basket or shaping clay has never looked easy, but Lavinia Santi combines both and makes it appear effortless. She has been perfecting her style for 25 years to create original pottery baskets, plates, bowls, jewelry and even lamps complete with electrical fittings. Prices run from Euro5 to 1,300, it's in Via S. Dorotea 21.

GraphicArt Bazaar:

Young, hip Veronica Di Giovane and Riccardo Giove, owners of this six-year-old shop, create whimsical designer stationery, photo albums, diaries, picture frames and more using only natural products. Each item could qualify as a work of art, but without demanding auction-house prices. Expect to pay from Euro 8 to 95. Vicolo del Cinque 30/b.

Ferrara:
"Upscale" best describes this gourmet food/wine shop and restaurant. A gift-boxed, 100-year-old bottle of balsamic vinegar will set you back about Euro270. For the rest of us there are reasonably priced Italian specialties including capers, olives, pesto and tomato sauces. Apricots, pears and clementines packaged in glass jars are almost too pretty to eat. If your aim is to impress, this is the place. Prices range from Euro 0.70 for a chocolate to 900 for a rare bottle of wine, it is in Via del Moro 1/a - Piazza Trilussa 41.

Polvere di Tempo:
Interesting items at this time-themed shop include handcrafted hourglasses, sundials, globes and kaleidoscopes. The owner, architect and craftsman Adrian Rodriquez, explained how candles marked with numbers were used by monks in the evening to note the passage of time. The tapers, priced at Euro 10, are attractively wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine. Prices range from Euro 8 to 630, you find it at Via del Moro 59.

The Almost Corner Bookshop:
This English-language bookstore carries all types of books and an especially good selection of history and fiction. Owner, Dermot O'Connell from Kilkenny, Ireland, invites you to browse among the latest bestsellers in the shop's larger, brighter space, two doors down from its old premises. His focus for the shop is to maintain its interesting and unusual reputation and to obtain anything a customer requests. Special orders usually take about three weeks, sometimes less. Regarding prices, O'Connell says: "We have books for every pocket." Via del Moro 45.

Valzani:
As you wind your way up Via del Moro, the window display at Valzani will stop you in your tracks. Rich chocolate cakes, sacher torte and typical Roman favorites like pangiallo (what fruitcake should taste like) and panpepato (made with honey, chocolate and pepper) tempt even the most determined dieter. In business since 1925, the Valzani family has built up quite a following. Virginia Valzani says that their customers come not only from all over Rome but from around the world. Glossy red gift boxes filled with their handmade sweets are priced from Euro 7 to 20. Via del Moro 37a/b

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The historic Restaurant - Hostaria dell’Orso

Rome give hospitality to Gualtiero Marchesi, the Italian modern cuisine father. Gualtiero Marchesi disembarked on the banks of the Tevere river in a Fifteenth century palace born like tavern and then transformed in hotel for pilgrims.

The Hostaria registered eminent guests like Rabelais and Montaigne, followed during the years of Dolce Vita by the couple Onassis-Callas and Hollywood stars like Clark Gable.
La veranda dell'Hostaria dell'Orso.

Today ancient frescoes, coffer ceilings and fireplaces coexist with orange skin Frau seats, piano bar and discotheque. The loggia with view and, in summer, the small court faced on the road are crossed by the solemnly irreproachable service captained by the Maitre Luciano Zanazzo.

With pride he carries on the table and discovers to blows of silver cloches the Gualtiero Marchesi’s creations performed by a staff leaded by Sous chef Antonio Panzironi. So the Hostaria dell'Orso may be a roman opportunity to know the origins of gastronomic conception of one of the protagonists of modern cuisine, still very active to 77 years old. In Rome Gualtiero Marchesi, with alternate gastronomic lucks, gives an echo of its talent with classic specialties like Seared scallops salad with ginger and pink pepper, Risotto gold leaf and saffron and Rossini Veal fillet.

Near to Roman traditional cuisine tributes (home-made basil and potatoes Gnocchi pasta, egg-plants mousse, tomatoes and smoked cheese or Roast spring chicken, stewed green and yellow peppers) there are two less expensive menu: Vegetarian menu (Green lettuce cold soup, Mix vegetables tempura, sweet and sour sauce) and Fish menu (Paccheri pasta with carpet-shells, broccoli, dried tuna roe and lemon, Roast grouper with lavender, wild salad and balsamic vinegar).

The wine cellar let to know Gualtiero Marchesi’s birth region (Lombardia, in North Italy) wine production and a selection of bottles whose price does not arrive at 30 euros is supported to an interesting possibility of tasting to the glass.
Hostaria dell’Orso: http://www.hdo.it/
Via dei Soldati 25/c - 00186 Roma

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Rome, the Eternal young city

Rome , the eternal city, does not hide its fabulous beauty.

In exhibiting its fairness generously, Rome bewitches visitors with the unmatched fascination of its light, its colours and entranced atmospheres, alluring new-comers to stay on and enjoy all this magnificence to the full.

Rome offers an artistic and cultural landscape of unequalled vastness, variety and importance.
Invaluable “treasures”stored in the city’s numerous museums, richly endowed galleries, grand historic palaces, exhibition centers and superb archeological areas, are among the reasons why Rome shines like a breath-taking star in the celestial vault of the cities of art.

During the last years a great deal of work has been done to enhance this immense wealth. New and appropriate room for exhibitions has been created, and visiting time extended. This allows the public to have access to places that had been closed-down for years. A great deal more is still being done in order to unearth precious remains, buried or hidden under the stratification of history.

So far, only archeologists or researchers in general could see these discoveries. Rome has by far not yet ceased to amaze and the future undoubtedly has great
suprises in store. The APT-Office of Rome’s Municipality edited the present exhaustive and complete guide to be distributed gratuitously. Its practical shape as a handbook is meant to facilitate consultation concerning the city’s overall cultural offer.

Beside the most celebrated museums and monuments, less well known places are mentioned
here, but all of them artistically and historically interesting. Unexpected and genuine
oddities, also, will surprise and amuse the visitors.
I post this as a cordial invitation to discover the “Treasures of Rome”.

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Rome Italic Forum of Mussolini

Ambitious building projects from the 1920s to the 1940s are still visible around Rome, and would have been even more widespread had the Fascist regime lasted longer.

Fascist architecture appears here and there in the historical center of Rome, but it is most present south of the center in the Mussolini-conceived EUR district, and at the Foro Italico sports complex north of Rome.

This guided visit will take you to the buildings and urban spaces that best exemplify how architecture could transmit the ideology of Fascism. Many of these Mussolini-era structures were directly inspired by imperial Roman art and architecture, but modified (some more convincing than others) to be colder, more sterile, more totalitarian.

For anyone with an interest in Rome's modern period or in comparative architecture, this unique tour is guaranteed to fascinate.The cult of sport was promoted and glorified in service of the Fascist regime that ruled Italy from 1922-1943.

In keeping with his belief that a fit country was a strong country, Fascist Dictator Mussolini commissioned the construction of the Foro Italico, a giant sport complex on the north edge of Rome, in the 1930s. Originally known as the Forum of Mussolini, the complex was conceived as a temple dedicated to the Fascist cult of athleticism, an idea that finds its expression in sculptural and mosaic decoration.

Today, you’re most likely to visit the Foro Italico today to attend a soccer match (it’s home to both the Roma and the Lazio teams and the stadium has been rebuilt since the time of Mussolini) or the world-class tennis tournament that takes place each year in May. But, not to be missed, is the spectacular indoor swimming pool, the walls of which are decorated with mosaics created by masters and students from the Scuola Irene of Spilimbergo, in the North-East Italian region of Friuli.

The giant mosaics are done in a style that’s typical of Mussolini’s art and architecture, paying homage to the modernist aesthetic of the early twentieth century, while simultaneously giving a nod to the glorious classical art of Rome’s ancient past.
Why such interest in the glorification of sport? Peter Bondanella explains the Fascist obsession with physical exercise in his book The Eternal City: Roman Images in the Modern World (University of North Carolina Press, 1987. pp. 192-193):

The Forum [of Mussolini] was intended to celebrate sport and strenuous physical exercise. Fascist leaders like to picture their regime as a youthful one. After all, the fascist humn was “Giovinezza” (”Youth”), and not only Mussolini but a number of party leaders often had themselves photographed in various sporting poses. Some leaped over drawn bayonets or through burning hoops to demonstrate their physical fitness and personal courage.

“Physical culture,” as the Fascists like to call it, was an important aspect of the regime’s ideology.



Foro Italico: Largo Lauro de Rossi, 3.

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Tiberina Island in Rome

According to the legend the island was created by silt piling up on the crops of the Tarquins thrown into the Tiber when the last king of this line was driven out of Rome.

Natural island, It grew on the centuries of waste.

Tiberina Island in Romeis linked to the banks of the river by two bridges, the Fabricio and Cestio.

Today, in order to protect Tiberina from the current, the 'bows' have been extended right up to one of the pillars of the Garibaldi bridge.

Some ancient buildings can still be seen, like the Caetani tower dating to the Middle Ages, and the church of San Bartolomeo that was built on the site of the temple of Esculapius. Unfortunately nothing is left of the 10th century church as it was almost entirely rebuilt in the 17th century.

Every year, on November 2nd, the Brotherhood of the "Devoti di Gesù Crocifisso al Calvario e di SS. Maria Addolorata" Devouts of Jesus crucifix at Calvario and of Our Lady of Sorrows, so called of "Sacconi Rossi" (Big Red Sacks), celebrates the commemoration of deceased people with a procession on the Tiber Island banks.

The Tiberina island, besides to be an archeological place full of legend and traditions, contains inside characteristics still to be discovered: observing carefully you may note many elements and come to the conclusion that the Tiberina island is also.

Every Year there open-air summer cinema festival on Tiberina Island features a fascinating programme of previews, retrospectives and blockbuster movies.The festival takes place in a magnificent location on the Tevere river.

The Ponte Rotto (broken bridge) connects the island to the mainland and is illuminated to transform this magical place into a huge cinema set.

Music, dance, fashion shows, multimedia artists, food and wine tastings accompany themed evenings and there are also appearances by stars from the movie world.

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