Merry Christmas

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Gioacchino Belli

 
150 years ago G. G. Belli died. He was a great poet who wrote his sonnets using the roman street dialet, showing the true soul of the town. His statue is just a few meters from us, close to the place where he was born in 1791.

Free entry in Rome's museums

From 8pm to 12pm on December 28th the entry in any museum in Rome will bee completely free. A good news for our guests!

80 euro al giorno 4 persone, Last Minute

Offerta Last Minute, fino al 22 dicembre, solo 80 euro al giorno l'intero appartamento per 4 persone.

Last Minute Offer, until December 22nd, only 80 Euros per day, the whole apartment for 4 persons.

Archimedes. Art and Invention Science

Last days (until 12 January 2014) to visit this exhibition at Musei Capitolini. All the information here:
http://en.museicapitolini.org/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/archimede_arte_e_scienza_dell_invenzione

Last Minute offer November 2013 - 80 euro for 4 persons!

Until November 22nd only 80 euros per night (up to 4 persons). A holiday in the heart of the eternal city has never been so affordable!
Reserved to our Facebook page subscribers.

Old painting

Castel sant'Angelo, Saint Peter and the Tiber river in 1600

16 October 1943

Two of the children among more than thousand persons taken from nazis in Rome and deported to death camps, two angels killed few days after they arrived to Auschwitz. Never forget.

Emperor Augusto: exhibition

Organised to mark the 2000th anniversary of his death on 19 August 14 AD, the exhibition presents the stages in the dazzling personal story of Augustus in parallel with the birth of a new historical era. The adopted son and great-nephew of Julius Caesar, Augustus was a man endowed with exceptional charisma and political acumen.  He succeeded, where even Caesar had failed, in putting an end to decades of bloody internecine strife that had worn the Roman Republic down to the bone, and in inaugurating a new political season: the Empire.

His reign, which lasted over forty years, was the longest in Roman history and the Empire achieved its moment of greatest expansion, covering the whole of the Mediterranean basin from Spain to Turkey, the Maghreb, Greece and Germany. 

The end of the civil wars was skillfully peddled as an era of peace, prosperity and abundance:  it was then that Rome saw the development of such crucial concepts as pax, pietas and concordia, sung by poets of the calibre of Virgil and Horace, and debated by the intellectuals and thinkers who met in the so-called circle of Maecenas.

The exhibition in the Scuderie del Quirinale, with a selection of approximately 200 exhibits of the highest artistic quality, offers visitors the opportunity to track the life and career of the princeps in parallel with the development of a new artistic culture and vocabulary that is still today the very foundation stone of Western civilisation.

The visual pivot of the exhibition comprises the celebrated statues of Augustus, brought together here for the very first time: Augustus as Pontifex Maximus from Via Labicana, now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, and the Augustus of Prima Porta from the Vatican Museums. This latter sculpture is set alongside its classical model, the famous Doryphoros from the Museo Archeologico in Naples, the standard par excellence of sculptural perfection in the Classical era.  Visitors will also be able to admire part of the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor found at the bottom of the Aegean sea, loaned by Athens and on display in Italy for the very first time.  While the splendid bronze portrait now in the British Museum comes from Meroë (Nubia, Egypt).

Evoking the flowering of a golden age, the so-called Grimani bas-reliefs depicting wild animals suckling their young are outstanding for their importance and their beauty, and they have been brought together exceptionally for this exhibition from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Museo di Palestrina. Also of outstanding importance is the group of the Niobids, an original Greek sculpture from a temple front which was set up in the Horti Sallustiani in Rome under Augustus and which has been reconstructed here by setting the two statues from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen alongside the statue of an injured girl from the Museo Nazionale Romano.

The sculptural groups, expressing the new Classicism, are matched by such dazzling examples of decorative art as a large selection of pieces of silver from the treasure of Boscoreale, exceptionally loaned by the Louvre in Paris, and by such masterly representations of power in images of the ancient world as a set of extremely precious cameos from London, Vienna and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, that were used by members of the imperial family as personal gifts.

The exhibition winds up with an unprecedented reconstruction of eleven bas-reliefs, now split between Spain and Hungary, from a public building originally erected in Campania to commemorate Augustus after his death, telling to great effect the story of a naval clash at the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. which put an end to the civil war between Octavian and Mark Anthony and paved the way for the princeps' ultimate triumph.

(from Scuderie's official site)

The origin of Dolce Vita

This restaurant is the place where in 1958 the Dolce Vita started. Now it is a bank and it is located 50 meters from us.

Santa Cecilia

The facade of the church of Santa Cecilia, whose bell tower is visible from the windows of Casa Cristina

January in Rome, special offer

Rome is seldom very cold, even in winter it may offer wonderful sunny days in which walking is pleasant. Moreover, this month there are sales everywhere, so it's an excellent period for shopping. And there are plenty of museums at hand, just in case it rains!
In January Casa Cristina is cheaper than ever: only 110 Euros per day or 690 Euros per week. And, as usual, more discounts for long stays.
Hurry up!