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Our Blogger: Arianna zcnji9ht27

Form the 16/06 to the 08/08 in Villa Ada Rome will meet the world. How? yo might be wondering: through good food, various stands full of handicrafts and above all, great music

Villa Ada is one of the most beautiful parks in Rome. During the XVIII the park was restructured by some pathway, some small temple creating an ambient really romantic.Various vicissitudes saw the Villa passing trough different owners between Pallavicini’s prince, the Real House and their administrator  theTellfner Count who gave to the park the name of his wife: Ada.

With such a backdrop, full of beauty and history, musicians from all around the world will meet to show once again that the sheer joy of music is a universal pleasure that brings together human beings from all races and from all walks of life. A valuable and much-needed messagge in our current times.

Our Blogger: Stefano

Everybody knows that sport is good: good for the body and the mind. The sport made conscientiously is synonymous of wellness. You can do amateur sport or athletics, as long as you follow a good method.
The festival of fitness in Rome is a good opportunity for those who love sports or are professionals of the field, but it’s also a good chance for those who only want to have tons of fun and do some exercise.

The Festival will give you the opportunity to sweat a little (or a lot), have new experiences and meet new disciplines. You can also find instructors who will help you to discover new methods of training, and to use new fitness tools. But you will also be able to  make new friends, have fun and spend a day off the beaten track.
The Festival has been defined "The Woodstock of Fitness" for its way of bringing together lots of different people. After 17 years in Rimini and 3 years in Florence, finally the festival will be held in Rome, and it will take place from 11 to 14 June 2009 at the New Fiera di Roma.

 
As everybody knows, the right amount of activity and a good alimentation are the basis for the prevention and treatment of many diseases including those of particular gravity, and for this there is nothing better than a good day of sport. The festival is open to everyone from children to elderly.
So, remember to put the tracksuit in a suitcase when travelling, because there are lots of sport waiting for you in Rome. And since all this activity will surely make you feel really tired, make sure to find accomodation in a welcoming hotel with great rates like Hotel des Artistes or Yes Hotel!

Our Blogger: Diana

Cinema Fans from all over the world are landing at Rome in March.

The VIII edition of the RIFF (Rome independent Film Festival) kicks off on March 19^th and will last for seven days showcasing more than 80 movies from documentaries, to shorts and animations of the highest calibre.

The film-maker winning the competition will be awarded with a prize of 50,000 euros and the opportunity of theatre distribution. Outstanding winners of the past editions of the Rome Indipendent Film Festival are Marko Kostic with The Paper prince, Lisa F Jackson with The greatest silence: rape in the Congo, and Alessandro Valori with Chi nasce tondo.

This year among the most promising Italian candidates we find Sleeping around by Marco Carniti with Anna Galiena and Lotta by Daniele Anzellotti with Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

Workshops and seminaries are as well organised since this Festival has gained during  the years a key-role as an exchange point in the cinema field where both old and new generations can give a contribution.

To enjoy many stimulating cultural activities while in Rome is important to find accomodation in well-located hotels with great standards of quality. Check Hotel des Artistes and Yes Hotel to start your trip on the right foot.

IN SHORT

NUOVO CINEMA AQUILA

19-27 MARCH 2009

Via l’Aquila 66/74

FROM TERMINI

BUS 105 (Grotte Celoni)

7 Stops, get off at PONTE CASILINO

Our Bogger: Diana

From February, Rome is the stage of dance festivals: Festival Equilibrio and Festival Fuga.Two events with one aim: to spread the word about this magical form of art.

Festival Equilibrio is pointing at the exhibition of outstanding newly come dancers from all over the world like Spain, Portugal, Austria, France, Hungary, China. Impressive is the variety of expression between the choreographies: from the pure abstract and spiritual dance of the Chinese Shen Wei to the fusion between theatre and dance created by the Arab-Israeli duo Guy & Roni.

From a selection of ten dancers, the winner will be chosen on the evenings of February 20^th and 21^st where even the audience is invited to take part.

The Accademia Nazionale di Danza, the school founded in Rome by Jia Ruskaia in 1948 to train dance teachers, is proposing March 21st-28th and April 4^th the “Crashing Test”: young choreographers and musicians will test the taste (harsh play on words) of the spectators, craving for applauses on stage.

On the other hand, the Piccolo Festival di Fuga proposes a more articulated program. Besides live exhibitions, specialized books will be presented along with interviews with the most interesting names of the dance scene.

 The Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, the venue where the Festival Equilibrium will take place is located on Viale Pietro de Coubertin, near the Palazzetto dello Sport, off Viale Tiziano.

The Auditorium Parco della Musica is in the Flaminio district of Rome, by the Villaggio Olimpico and can be easily reached by public transport:
Bus Routes

• 910, from Termini Station and Piazza Mancini
• 53, from Piazza Mancini and Piazza San Silvestro
• 217, from Viale XVII Olimpiade and Termini Station
• 231, from Piazza Mancini and Piazzale Canestre (in Villa Borghese park). Only weekends
• Linea “M”, special bus route between Termini station and Viale Pietro de Coubertin Auditorium stop. From 17h00 – every 15 mins. Last bus from the Auditorium departs at the end of last event.

Tram routes

• 2, from Piazzale Flaminio and Piazza Mancini

Trains

• Metro A line to the Flaminio stop then no.2 tram
• Or the Ferrovia Roma-Nord train to the Piazza Euclide stop

By car

• From the G.R.A. (ring-road around Rome) take the Flaminio Saxa Rubra exit towards Corso di Francia
• Or from the Lungotevere Flaminio turn off into Viale Tiziano and then again at the
• Palazzetto dello Sport (covered sport complex)

Guy & Roni in action

As for the Piccolo Festival of fuga, it will take place on the Ruskaja Theatre, conveniently located near the subway station Circo Massimo.

To enjoy these and many other stimulating activities the eternal city has to offer don’t hesitate to make a booking at Yes Hotel or Hotel Des Artistes!

Our Blogger: Marcelo

To feel the pilgrimage experience, offering a place of meeting. A crossroads for faiths and philosophies. A pilgrimage through history, information, art, technology. To celebrate and begin a journey. That’s the aim of the Journeys of the Spirit Festival.

It will take place in the New Rome Fair Ground (North Entrance) from the 15th until the 18^th of January in our beautiful city.

Four thematic areas will be shown:

Main Itineraries of Faith: Dedicated to Rome, Santiago and Jerusalem, the most important spiritual destinations for Christians. Designed by the famous Cinecittà studios, it will allow you to experience the energy of these sacred locations.

Destinations and Tourism Professionals: Institutions and operators will be present giving direct contact with those who support the different spiritual destinations.

Inside Italy: Every Region of Italy will present its religious and cultural gifts. The whole pavilion was designed to resemble a Medieval square. An interactive display of Italy will be placed at the centre of the ‘’Piazza’’. Here the most complete information about art, monuments and sites in the Country is offered.

Youth at Josp Fest: Dedicated to students focused on training and career guidance.

This important meeting provides the opportunity for pilgrims and tourists to revisit places of worship in search of the origins of the Holy land through a journey of magnificent art work, nature and man. You can visit it from 10:00 until 18.00. It’s free (So you have no excuse if you are in Rome those days).

The location is easy to reach with public transportation since our hotel is located within walking distance from the main station Termini. For further information you can contact us at Yes Hotel in Rome.

Our Blogger: Stefano

Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer and musician, born in Rome. His long artistic career includes a wide range of composition genres and he has always produced, as well as worked as a conductor.

He worked at the RAI television company in Italy as a music assistant too. But he became famous working with Sergio Leone, the great Italian director of western films. For Leone’s films he composed the music for: A Fistful Of Dollars (1964), For A Few Dollars More(1965), The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966), Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)and A Fistful Of Dynamite (1971). Many of this films remain very popular in Italy today.

From that time, Morricone has scored over 400 films working with many Italian and international directors, including Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oliver Stone, Pedro Almodovar, Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, and Warren Beatty.

Among the most famous films he worked on include: The Battle Of Algiers; Sacco and Vanzetti; Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon A Time In America, and The Untouchables.

Ennio Morricone is an acclaimed Italian Academic at the prestigious Accademy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Infact, he has conducted many orchestras worldwide, including the Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy for many symphonic seasons. He also conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Theatre, the National Brazilian Orchestra, the Budapest Opera House Orchestra, Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Munich Rundfunk, the Orquesta Nacionales de España, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra. He was a composer for theatre, radio too.

In his long career, Ennio Morricone has received many awards: a Golden Lion, 3 Golden Globes, 1 Grammy Award, 7 David Di Donatello, 1 European Film Award and after 5 Oscar Nominations. But on February 25 2007 he received an Oscar for his career.

Quentin Tarantino even used several of his compositions for the Kill Bill trilogy and many musicians continue today to make Morricone part of their concerts. The Ramones used the soundtrack from “the good, the bad, and the ugly” as an introduction to their concerts while Bruce Springsteen used “ Once upon a time in the West” for his entrances. If you would like to go to a concert at the Accademy of Santa Cecilia, why not check into our elegant Yes Hotel? Being so well located you can travel with ease.

Our Author: Marcelo

Great music lovers have a must on November in the Eternal City! The Roma Jazz Festival 2008 will be held in Rome from November 5-30. Over two hundred artists for a total of 20 concerts.

Organized with the cooperation of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, the House of Jazz and the Goethe Institut and hosted mainly in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the festival will offer a remarkable overview of the current jazz scene.

A wide and exciting mix of styles, the concerts will be divided in three main sections:

Focus Orchestras, performing a style that has animated the music scene since the early 40s, and among the artists, the Count Basie Orchestra and his swing of the years’40 and’50.

A female section with three outstanding artists, surely the most engaging and surprising in recent years, as the Canadian singer Terez Montcalm, the free-Israeli singer Yael Naim and the virtuous Japanese pianist Chiciro Yamanaka

From Bossa Nova to Fusion. The Bossa Nova, which has left a mark on the history of jazz for the last 50 years and its evolution resulting into new experiences. Get ready for Milton Nascimento with Jobim, celebrating 60 years of Bossa Nova, with Enrico, through the Five Peace Band, Chick Corea and John McLaughlin, and Herbie Hancock with his sextet

The excentric Sun Ra with his Arkestra, the local Gianluca Petrella Cosmic Band, and many other performers giving their personal interpretation of the living spirit of Jazz…

If you are heading to Rome’s Jazz Festival, and you are just lost and do not know where to stay and leave your precious saxophone, then do not hesitate to check our great and cosy hotel, just around the corner from main railroad station in Rome- YES Rome Hotel. Your stay in Rome will be unforgettable in all the ways possible.

For more info check www.auditorium.com. Enjoy it!

Romaeuropa, for the artistic traveler
Do you like art and are looking for different ways to explore Rome? Well, we have something for you here.
The Romaeuropa Festival is a celebration of art and diversity, and as you might have guessed by its name, it takes place every year in Rome.
Every Romaeuropa Festival brings to the city the newest tendencies in art, blurring, in their own words, "the boundaries between high and low art." So, every year the most innovative musicians, dancers and artists of every kind perform in the festival, challenging our notions about art and what’s artistic.
For detailed information about this exciting festival, check their program. If you like contemporary or electronic music the Romaeuropa festival is for you. The program of the festival is packed with this kind of events, that will delight the connoisseurs. There’s also theater and multimedia art on the menu. Among the most interesting presentations for the mainstream public we found IN-I an artistic adventure that sees together Juliette Binoche (yes, the world-famous french actress) and the English dancer Akram Khan. Both artists will challenge the public and themselves for four days form November the 5th at the Teatro Olimpico Nazionale, at 20:30.
The festival has different venues. Among them the Officine Marcone (147 Biaggio Petrocelli St.), the Brancaleone ( 11 Levanna St.) and te Palladiun Università Roma Tre ( 8 Bartolomeo Romano Square). With so many different locations to go to you need a well-located hotel- Hotel Des Artistes, Lucci Hotel and Yes Hotel are excellent points to move between the many venues of the Romaeuropa Festival or to just explore the city. Both are conveniently located near the Termini Station, a hot spot for transportation in Rome. From there you can go virtually anywhere in the city and even in Italy, since Termini is a Bus station, a subway station and a train station as well.

Written by : Marcelo

Tango is fascinating . Tango is sensual. Tango has become a global music genre because of the passion that expresses and of its elegance.

A little history ! From the beginning in the middle of the XVIII century, down by the Rio de la Plata river in the coasts of Argentina and Uruguay, and for more than a century Tango music searched for a respect, the dance was refused by intellectuals and rich people. Just consider that in the early days it was only danced among men because it was not accepted that a lady could, it was almost an scandal. Something similar happened with jazz until it was finally accepted as a form of art, evolution and sophistication. In Rome you can actually take up a class of tango

Jorge Luis Borges, the argentinian writer, made an important contribution for its acceptance, including ‘’tangueros’’ characters in his short stories and poems and revealing by that the magic contained in the rhythm and the social aspects of a way of life.

In 1917, the first tango song with lyrics was recorded by Carlos Gardel ‘‘Mi noche triste’’ linking tango with the feeling of tragic love as said in the lyric. Tango lyrics also describe the urban landscape and the life of the marginal in the society, with the nostalgy of time lost that was much better, the youth, as well as moral lesson in many cases.

Nowadays tango means fun and exercise for the legs of both sexes, ladies and gentlemen (why not the chance to begin a romance).

From September 6th to 18th, Tango will be celebrated at the Parco della Musica in Rome, Buenos Aires Tango, a festival where you will have the opportunity to enjoy the exhibitions of the most famous artists and also important artists coming directly from the city who will express freely the feeling of Tango at the its purest form. The Tango festival, unique in its kind in Europe, is produced by the” Musica per Roma Foundation”.

Over 23 shows are scheduled, and courses in dancing will feature, and so will wokshops, a photographic exhibition ,a film exhibition (with films of Carlos Gardel a legendary singer and actor compared with Rodolfo Valentino whose voice is a symbol of Tango itself). On top of all , an actual tango club will be set up ‘‘Club de Tango’’in the Studio Teatro where will be a real ‘‘milonga’’ (the place where you dance and have a blast).

Among the shows that will be presented Adriana Varala a performer that reveals the most traditional way of tango singing, the melancholy sound of Pablo Mainetti’s bandoneón (a sort of accordion wich is the most representative instrument in tango music), the dancers Gloria and Eduardo, living legends of Argentine tango, the voice of Dolores Solà, accompanied by Cuarteto Decarísimo, Noche de Tango, a kind of musical marathon to be held in Piazza Navona. Performances of the highest level, with The Orquesta El Arranque, singer Noelia Moncada, and two shows dedicated to Horacio Salgán, the legendary Argentinian pianist and composer of many classic standards.

For more info see Romanotizie and the Auditorium

(it’s in italian) or just call 06-80241281, tickets price is 12-20 euro.

And if you come on vacation in Rome, why not take advantage of our great Lucci Hotel Rome deals ?

Other events held at the Auditorium : Read further !

Roman hot summer tires a lot of tourists, who still are attracted by the charm of the Italian Capital, the Eternal City. Yes, of course, all the roads lead to Rome, and I would add, especially, to Colosseum.  This year as a continuation of a good tradition, “Castellum” agency organized from the 21st June an initiative, called All’Ombra del Colosseo (In the shade of Colosseum), and it reached this year its nineteenth edition  becoming a cornerstone of Estate Romana (Roman Summer) and  a reference point for all  the Romans who remain in city during the summer.  This initiative will last till September 2008.

“Eventhough this season certainly is  not easiest one for the new municipal administration – said the president of Castellum – we  still decided to revive this event to be  the flagship of proposals  for the capitoline summer.”
And this year there are some great innovations and inventions. 
First of all, has been put an outdoor pool with panoramic view of the Colosseum with aperitifs served on the boards of the pool every day from 19.00.  Swimming lovers can enjoy a  true  pool, sized 10 x 20 metres, and not a  plastic swimming pool. This pool is a jewel of transportable engineering, placed strategically in front  of the Anfiteatro Flavio. 
Then  there will be tons of art, culture, music, cabaret shows with the presence of many famous artists, solarium, poker tournaments, different sports, swimming courses for children, theatre performances and a draft catering Food & Fashion: dishes combined with color creations, tailored and signed by Emi Fabbri.

All’Ombra  del Colosseo will be open free of charge from 9 am to 2 at night. Admission  to the shows is  from 8 to 16 euros and cost of the pool from 10 to 12 euros. Do not hesitate to take advantage of so many Summer Special offers of My Hotel in Rome, and take yourselves and your children to enjoy the summer roman heat and summer roman relax in the shade of Colosseum.