Today Rome turns 2779 years old and to celebrate its birthday, the Capital has built a rich program of events including historical re-enactments, concerts, free visits and shows.
Military band concerts
In the late afternoon, at 5.30 pm sharp, seven squares in the historic center will come alive simultaneously with concerts by the Armed Forces Bands. They will perform in Piazza del Campidoglio, at the Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, in Piazza San Silvestro, Piazza Pia, Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina, Piazza di Pietra and Piazza di Sant’Ignazio. A collective and widespread homage to the city, to be experienced by choosing your favorite square.
Free guided tours
The Capitoline Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura, has created a program of visits that accompanies the celebrations for two days.
Today the highlight: from 4.30pm to 6.45pm, Palazzo Senatorio exceptionally opens its doors for free visits to the Aula Giulio Cesare, the institutional heart of the Municipality of Rome since 1143. Groups of a maximum of 30 people enter from the entrance of Sixtus IV (via San Pietro in Carcere). Reservation required on 060608.
Among today’s other events: at 10 am in Quadraro you can follow a free itinerary among the street art works of the MURo project, between contemporary art and the memory of the 1944 roundup; a visit to the exhibition is scheduled at 11 am at Trajan’s Markets Constantin Brâncuși: the Origins of Infinity; at 3.30 pm at the Giovanni Barracco Museum we will delve deeper into Roman civilization through the sculptures of the Roman Room; at 6pm at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere you can admire Hervé Gloaguen’s night shots of Rome in the Seventies and Eighties.
Tomorrow, April 22nd at 4 pm, the program closes at Palazzo Braschi Living in Rome: squares, festivals and professionsbetween markets and ancient works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
The re-enactments of the Roman Historical Group
Today is the last day of the Roman Historical Group’s re-enactments: over 1,300 participants from 16 European countries – plus a delegation from Taiwan – animate the main symbolic places of the city with processions, gladiator tournaments, rituals and educational activities. Pantheon, Circus Maximus, Imperial Forum, Museum of Civilizations and National Roman Museum are the stages. All with free entry.
