Lucci Hotel Rome Blog

Sunday was a really great day. Well, it was, until one of my flatmates woke me up from my extremely deep and relaxing slumber. He reminded me that this was the last day to go to the [tag]museums for free[/tag]. Free is a magic word so I listened very carefully after that. Yes we were going to go to Villa Borghese today. Finally, I thought after having been here for 8 months I would finally see it. So we got the metro at Vittorio Emanuele. Then we got off at [tag]Barberini[/tag] and then got a bus from [tag]Via Veneto[/tag]. This however turned out to be a rather round about way of doing things. Bus 910 from Termini stops right outside the park, steps away from the museum.

 So we were about to see the museum with all the art inside until………………signs notifying us dashed my hopes. The museum was full. No more tickets were available. Oh well we decided to go to Villa Giulia instead. This museum which used to be the [tag]villa of pope Julius III[/tag] houses an immense collection of statues, vases and other various items made from terracotta and especially of [tag]Etruscan[/tag] origin. There are also many bronze articles on display and my favourite bit in this museum like all the others was looking at all the stuff made from gold.

 The villa also has gardens which are shaded and a few small fountains. The one at the entrance is home to a family of turtles. After the museum I had built up a bit of an appetite from all the walking around so I decided to go to Fassi. This is another fantastic gelateria and the ice cream is absolutely amazing. They also have other sweet stuff on sale besides the ice cream. Tiramisu and some other really yummy looking cakes are on sale too. The prices are pretty fair for what you are getting. My ice cream was a small and it only cost € 1.50 I got three flavours and I could have had a dollop of cream too but I decided that the ice cream was enough.

 We then set off to a pasticceria. This one is also located near [tag]Piazza Vittorio[/tag]. I highly recommend getting a Bavaresi and anything stuffed with cream and ricotta cheese. This great pasticeriais located on Via di Statuto. The prices are very good and the quality of the dolce is excellent.

 

 

 

This stop is on the B line and is the last stop before Laurentina. There are some great museums in this area and they are not far from the metro stop. You can easily walk there and the large white obelisk in the traffic circle is right opposite to the museum complex which is on the right hand side.

An especially interesting museum, museo della Civilta’ Romana, or the museum of Roman Civilisation has a copy of Trajan’s Column which is laid out in sections that can be viewed really close up. The other great exhibition is the model of the ancient city of Rome. The detail is absolutely amazing and it gives you a very good idea of how the city looked. I had a lot of fun figuring out where all the places would be today and where my favourite gelateria and bar was.

The musueum price is 6.50 euro. It contains mostly replicas and casts of sculptures and other artifacts found in Rome and other parts of Italy. I went to the museum on Sunday so it was only open from 9 till 1 in the afternoon. On weekdays its open till 6:45. The best part is definetly the scale model of Rome. I spent at least half an hour in that room looking at it. It was absolutely fascinating.

I would only recommend going to the museum to see the column and the model. There is nothing else to see that is of any real significance except for the other scale models of buildings and temples found in Rome and other places like Pompei.

The area that the museums are located in looks nothing like that of the city centre or the other parts near the centre. This was designed as a modern metropolis envisioned by Mussolini but which somehow doesn’t quite look completed. While I was walking through the area I felt like I was somewhere in East Berlin or Russia. All the streets are wide tarred and straight. The buildings have been built in a very planned and specific way with columns and arches everywhere. Everything seems so ordered and tidy that you would not think you are in Rome unless you looked at the street names. This place is so un-Italian. It has none of the chaos, small crooked streets and careless town planning that the city centre has and where our Nice Hotel Rome is located.

 

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