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ONLY BE ROMAN
Only-Be Roman
Fortunato Pantheon Rome
With a picturesque view of the Pantheon, Fortunato is an expert in good service and customer service with the guarantee of a high-quality cuisine.
Ghione Theatre Rome
A few steps from the Vatican, this splendid theatre has room for 500 people.
InEuroff Festival in Rome
Almost all summer festivals are gone. It is always like that, if you live in Europe, here winters, in some latitudes, tend to be quite rough, and people take refuge indoors for much of the year. Bars and clubs are crowded in winter and with the arrival of spring and summer everyone goes to the streets in herds and travel, seeking the beach, the country or any space that radiates some freedom, light, fresh air, sea, you know, the year has been too hard. In Spain for example, August is the month of holidays many people; everyone leaves the cities seeking relaxation for the whole month. In September the weather is cooler and rather easy to return to the city, for some a stressful or painful, but actually the return to the inevitable. In September the autumn arrives in Rome and in the rest Europe. This is an ideal month to travel and have fun, with less heat to go sightseeing more effectively. While cities recover their usual inhabitants, international tourism is reduced as well as transportation prices; international and domestic flights, buses and trains; the “high” season is left behind. If you want to come to Rome or Europe for holidays, maybe this is the month that suits you, if you like exploring cities. Getting to know the city is a different experience than to explore the beach or the countryside. Cities offer tend to go for cultural attractions, events, restaurants, museums and concerts. The architecture also defines the character of European cities in a dominant fashion. Each city has its landmarks; historical, traditional and modern, that makes...The Capitoline Museums Rome
The Capitoline Museums is the oldest city museum in the world, with many valuable works donated by different Popes.
Piazza di Spagna in Rome
Piazza di Spagna is characterize by a continuous change of shapes which makes it rise so easily. It has always been frequented by a diverse audience, from pilgrims to noble writers and frivolous English aristocrats. In springs the staircase which is built in eighteenth century looks like a carpet covered with azaleas flowers, thus offering a charming manifestation. The place can be seen sparkling with light at any part of the day, even at night. Piazza di Spagna also witnessed the presence of Spanish ambassador’s residence. The Trevi fountain which is in the shape of ship is immensely popular because of this piazza and is now called as “Fontana della Barcaccia”. There are some popular names attached with this fountain such as of Pope Bernini who commissioned it. Situated at the base of the piazza this is a refreshing and a lively one, and has become a rest house for people. In the 18th century, according to the French church Trinita dei Monti, Piazza di Spagna and the fountain were the most vital in order to connect with the rest of the city. This place has also been a habitat to many poets and writers as they can feel the unusual atmosphere which is required to get them started for their premiere poetry. They thus spend most of their time in this impressive part of Rome. Via Condotti which is a famous street in Rome for the presence of numerous fashion boutiques such as Armani, Versace has Via del Babuino on its way which connects the Spanish Steps with Piazza del Popolo. In the vicinity of the place is...
Esther Stocker in Rome
The Macro Museum in Rome exhibits until the 30th of October the exhibition Destino Comune by the conceptual Italian artist Esther Stocker, in collaboration with the Galleria Oredaria di Roma. The Macro Museum is in the old Peroni brewery, restored in 1999. The building was constructed in the early part of the 20th century in the wold Via Regio Emilia and it was recovered by the richness of its architecture which was engraved in a special place, which overlooks Rome completely. Next to the contemporary art museum there are bookshops and restaurants with the best beer in the city, honoring the origin of the place. Esther Stocker was born in Silandro, Italy, in 1970 and currently lives and works in Vienna. She began to exhibit in Italy at the end of the 90s. Her geometric work impacted for its aesthetic quality that she brought as a reminder of pop art in the 60s, but the depth and the conceptual elaboration on the fragmentation that the system produces in the environment, taking it as a natural and social aspect, is what´s moving from her work. In Destino Comune, Stocker creates a geometrical structure where she introduces small inexactitudes to point out the damage of the system in its entirety. The reticles are made from industrial black scotch material, of resin, which is used in architecture, on a white background, where inexactitudes stand out. In Stocker´s works, everything is perfect, clean, without any dissonant elements, only a few small alterations that the spectator has to encounter to give it the sense that it should have. The artist plays with these small...
Niccolò Ammaniti: Let the party begin
Although in reality big parties always have Eastern overtones, few places like ancient Rome conjure the best images. For centuries in the West we have been educated with the idea that the decline of the Roman Empire whose scent is still adhered to our skin, a nostalgia that continuous shaking in a strange and hidden ways our hearts had to do with a decadent life of abandonment to all the bodily pleasures which found its highest expression in these aristocratic parties covering the entire spectrum between death and sex through exotic and unpredictable amusements reaching all the imaginable pleasures . A perfect and exquisite grotesque carnival turffled with ocelots, white giraffes, shimmering elephants, Nubian dancers, contortionists, Amazon pygmies, human fireballs, drugs and the finest poisons… Some great classics texts and a disturbed and a demented legion of Christian pamphlets created in the collective imagination an view of absolute debauchery of the most outrageous, wild, sexy parties the Roman world saw, those moments somehow survive today based on the Hollywood movies of the twentieth century who depicted those days of constant decadence From this perspective, some would link the infamous conduct of Silvio Berlusconi and his scandalous private life, from which we learned more and more lurid details (including sexual scandals while bathing in the pools of international leaders which included the recruitment of young underage escorts as intimated company for guests), with the legendary tradition of Roman excesses, which would simply be a contemporary incarnation, perhaps infinitely more vulgar and tawdry, as befits the new rich and poor mobsters of zero artistic intellectual substance To channel his anger and...
Streetmatching, an application to flirt
When you´re walking down the street, either going for a walk or nearly running to make administrative dealings, you look around. Observe the landscape, the city´s movement, the cars, the buildings, but what you give the most attention to is looking at all the attractive people that come across them. Many times, us women tell our friends “You won´t guess the man I´ve just come across at the bakery, he was an angel fallen from the sky”. But (nearly) always this love at first sight never materializes because the other person never realised we exist. The same happens to men, the look a lot around the street but few of them find the courage to talk to the beautiful women they´ve seen go past. With the advance of new technologies and the popularization of smartphones, personal relations are changing and there´s already an application that allows us to flirt in the street, without being creepy or out of place. The application is called Streetmatching and it´s free but only when compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It´s available in various languages (Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese) and it can be used in any city in the world. The procedure for using this application is very easy. You download it to your phone and when it installs you complete your personal details (e-mail, phone number, address). When you´re walking down the street and you see someone attractive who´s caught your eye it immediately localizes your “flirt” and later registers it in Streetmatching. That way, if there´s another person that felt an attraction to you in the same direction,...
Moby in Rome
No summer without music! that is how the organizers of Rock in Rome see it. This year they present a deluxe line up with the best music interpreters that moves through several generations of artists. One of the most anticipated concerts is the of composer and electronic pop genius, Moby, who will make the Ippodromo delle Capanelle vibrate on the 24th of July. This rock festival which begins in June and ends on July 30th, brings you this year the creme de la creme of electronic music for the enjoyment of fans that come from all over Europe to listen to their favorite bands. Lou Reed and Sting will be in charge of closing the festival Richard Melville Hall, Moby´s real name, was born in Harlem, New York, in 1955. He took his stage name from the book Moby Dick written by his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. His beginnings in music date back to the early 80´s when he was a hardcore punker inthe band Vatican Commandos. That experience gave birth to a single disc: Hit Squad for God, who had no impact among the punk rock fans. His first success was achieved in 1991 with the album Go, when he reached the Top Ten in the British music charts. From there the path to fame and touring was evident. The Prodigy, Aphex Twin and Orbital were his companions in various tours. His consecration came in 1995 with his double album Everythink is Wrong – Mixed and Remixes distributed by Electra Records. Moby holds the world record for the fastest song ever recorded, the horrendously beautiful “thousand” where he reached...
