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Numbers In Rome

17/11/2014

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Rome is not only antique and baroque. In this moment, and until the end of may 2015, you can visit a very unusual exhibition in the huge neoclassical Palazzo delle Esposizioni  (build in 1882) in the very central via Nazionale.
The title is simply "Numbers". With this curious subtitle: "Everything that Counts. From Zero to Infinity”.  And, on the poster of the exhibition, a very well known man with a moustache, who is writing on a blackboard. It is Albert Einstein that discovered the theory of the relativity  (the famous E= mc2) almost a century ago (1915).
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The Exhibition Poster. Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome
After the climb of the imposing flight of steps, entering in the first exhibition hall, you feel a bit lost, surrounded by numbers and strange machines that are, in fact, the ancestors of our computers. You need a few minutes to understand where you are and to start your travel through numbers, centuries and millennium.
Without being a genius, you become suddenly aware that numbers are everywhere.
They are part of the nature but they are also manipulated by human brains, since time immemorial (as evidenced by an amazing Babylonian tablet from 1.800- 1.600 BCE).
They are in visual art (the golden number), in music (Tonal Harmony), religions etc...
This exhibition, enriched by guided tours, conferences and films, makes us discover that the horrible mathematics of our childhood are something completely different, something that we can call "magic". Perhaps our professors wanted to keep their secret?
If you are visiting Rome with children think about taking a tour in Palazzo delle Esposizioni: we noticed many enthusiastic young visitors!
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Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, Rome
Via Nazionale, a long commercial street that goes from Piazza della Repubblica, the Diocletian's Baths (beside the railways station Termini) to Piazza Venezia, is only a few meters distant from the old Roman district, "Suburra", once full of taverns and prostitutes (see the exhibition "The Baroque Underworld" in Villa Medici). You just have to cross the road from The Palazzo delle Esposizioni to get there.   
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Via Nazionale, from Piazza Della Repubblica to Piazza Venezia
You'll not find any more taverns in the "Rione Monti", as it is called today, but a lot of nice and trendy boutiques, with very sophisticated shop windows. Cloths that look unique, vintage accessories, funny home furnishings, delicatessen etc... In these very lively little streets, going up and down ("Monti" means “hills”) like via dei Serpenti, via del Boschetto or via Panisperna that remind a bit the delicious streets around Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, you'll have also an incredible choice of little restaurants, cafés and "gelaterias".

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Via Panisperna, Rione Monti, Rome
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Via Del Boschetto, Rione Monti, Rome
And, if you want to end the day with music, just go back to via Nazionale. At the n°16, exactly at the corner with via Napoli, the American Episcopal church, "St Paul Within the Walls", a neo-gothic church built in 1880 by British architects and internally decorated by Pre-Raphaelite artists, organizes concerts once or even twice a week. Often with the soloists of the "Opera Theatre" of Rome, that is also in the neighbourhood.
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Concert In St Paul Within the Walls, Rome
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Autumn & Winter in Rome

6/11/2014

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Roman holidays don't have to be in summer. November, December or January, when even the sunny Rome is sometimes grey and rainy, are full of events.  Especially plenty of exhibitions, with this common characteristic:  they are always in magnificent places, in fabulous palaces.

In this moment, and until the 18th January 2015, you can see a beautiful exhibition of the great 15th century Flemish painter (born in Germany) Hans Memling in Le Scuderie del Quirinale, just in front of the residence of the President of the Italian Republic, on the magic (especially in the evening) Piazza del Quirinale.

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Piazza Del Quirinale, Rome - Italy
The most extraordinary moment is, at the end of your visit, when your eyes, still filled with the precious portraits of rich merchants and bankers and the most beautiful religious triptychs loaned from museums all around the world, will discover an incredible view on roman churches cupolas, through the glass stairs that you have to go down to get out from the Scuderie. Unforgettable! 

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Saint Andrew Church - Via del Quirinale 29, Rome
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Saint Charles Church - Via Del Quirinale 23, Rome
You can take, then, the Quirinale street, just on your right and walk, for a few minutes, between the Quirinal gardens and some Bernini's and Borromini's masterpieces (the churches Saint Andrew and Saint Charles) to get to another palace and another fantastic exhibition: "From Guercino to Caravaggio" (dedicated to the big collector and historian of Italian art, Sir Denis Mahon) in the Barberini Palace (until the 8 february 2015).  It is very unusual to find so many Caravaggio all together. Even "The Lute Player" from the Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg is there! And, among the Guercino's paintings, you'll see the most beautiful baby-Jesus of the history of Italian painting ("Madonna of the Sparrow") 
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Palazzo Barberini, Rome
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Madonna Of The Sparrow, Guercino (circa 1615/16)
Another important Baroque exhibition is waiting for you in another marvellous palazzo, Villa Medici, the French Academy of Rome, overhanging the Spanish Steps. With the exhibition called  "The baroque underworld. Vice and destitution in Rome" (until the 18 January 2015) you'll discover, with the taverns full of drunk people and prostitutes, the dark side of the Baroque Rome where, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, artists used to come from all Europe. As do tourists today...
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Villa Medici, Rome
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