Eros Ramazzotti very soon in Rome!

The Hotel Pulitzer Rome has always the best recommendations to enjoy the city of Rome. This time is about a concert that you cant miss!

Eros Ramazzotti will be very soon singing in Rome. 

The concert will be in The Palalottomatica the next 21-11-2009, so you can buy your tickets now!

10 interesting things about Rome!

The modern city of Rome, as legend goes, was built on seven hills. A city that is accustomed to foreign influences, it is known for it architectural treasures. There is a lot more to Rome than we know. Here are some interesting facts to give you an insight into the Roman culture, its history and treasures.

1. The birth of the Eternal City, Rome, which was founded in 753BC, is celebrated every year by Romans on the 21st of April. Celebrations include fireworks, gladiator shows, traditional Roman banquets and parades.

2. The Pantheon which was built in 27 B.C. by Marcus Agrippa is the only monument belonging to ancient Rome that still remains intact. What is even lesser known, is that it entombs Italy’s king Vittorio Emanuele II, and his successor, Umberto I.

3. A park in Rome is named the “Park of the Monsters.” Not because it is a haunted place but because it is full of grotesque figures like a crude Hercules slaying an Amazon and an ogre’s face with a mouth so big that people can even walk through it!

4. The Baths of Caracalla although in a bad state now, were once in their prime days spread across 27 acres and could handle 1,600 bathers at any given time. Built in the 3rd century, they are the largest survivors of Rome’s imperial era.

5. Rome has a museum which is entirely dedicated to pasta. The Pasta Museum is a one of its kind around the world and showcases different pasta-making machines, as well as paintings related to pasta by contemporary artists.

6. St Peter’s Basilica inside Vatican City is the largest church ever constructed.

7. Rome’s Coliseum, a huge amphitheatre which could seat 50,000 people is one among the Seven Wonders of the World.

8. The Monumental Cemetery of the Capuchin Brothers has used the bones of over 4,000 Capuchin monks, some skeletons fully intact, to create symbolic works of art in its series of chapels.

9. The Vatican Museums is a huge museum complex with over 1,000 museums and galleries like the Gallery of Tapestries and Etruscan and Egyptian Museums that are full of masterpieces collected by the successive popes. It is the world’s largest museum complex.

10. St. Peter’s Basilica was a structure that stood for almost 1,000 years until it neared collapse and was rebuilt by 1500s and 1600s. It is an overwhelming structure which displays the work of some of Italy’s greatest artists like Raphael, Michelangelo, and Maderno.

http://ezinearticles.com/?10-Interesting-Facts-About-Rome,-Italy&id=1635919

The Rome Film Festival

The Hotel Pulitzer Roma recommend “The Rome Film Festival“ 

The forth editiion of the International Rome Film Festival will take place in Auditorium Parco della Musica from 15 to 23 October 2009.

Rome Film Festival, promomted by Fondazione Cinema per Roma, is not only a festival, but rather a party, huge event for all these who loves cinema.

It takes place every year in Autumn.
The event involves whole city from its center to outskirts, the aim is to involve all the people that are interested in cinema and to offer them a lot of interesting and fun meetings: (exhibitions) parallel exhibition, meetings and demonstrations, exhibitions, music, fashion, literature.

Moreover, from its fundation, Rome Film Festival has made the original choice regarding to its Competition, to give the verdict on the best film, (Premio Marco Aurelio), best actor and best actress as well as the Special Jury Prize, to a group of ordinary fimgoers: film lovers of all ages who go to see every kind of film imaginable, fans but not fanatics.

The forth edition

Rome Film Festival is realized by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, the Rome Auditorium has been designed by the famous architect Renzo Piano who donated also the exlusive image that characterise all the initiatives in program.

Sections :

Official selection
12 film Italian and international premieres which will make up the official competition of the Rome Film Festival.
During the projection a lot of cinematographic stars will do the traditional “passerella” (runway).

Extra
it is a perfect section to open the new frontiers by those who are creating something fresh and different in the audiovisual field.

Alice nella città
Alice nella città brings together in its program an international selection of works made for young people. 12 films in competition.

Focus
New edition, all the works that will be presented in the Focus section will be “focused” on the global theme of the environment.

www.aboutroma.com

Some itineraries for your Rome visit

ITINERARY ROME: THE OLD ROME
We can begin our first itinerary from old Rome, the city side that founded the roman and western culture. The Foro Romano ( Largo Romolo and Remo 5; Santa Maria Nova Square 53 ) between Palatino and Campidoglio hills, represented the political and meeting place of “capitolina” community. Then, the development of Fori Romani marks the crossing from Republican to Imperial age, where every emperor owned his “Foro”; crossing this enchanting area, you can admire ruins of squares, streets, buildings and monuments of 2000 years ago. From Fori Imperiali going through Homonym Street, you arrive to Anfiteatro Flavio, well known all over the world like Colosseo (from Colosso). Continuing adjoining Oppio Hill, you can visit the Domus Area (what remains about luxurious Nerone’s mansion) to conclude this mini trip in imperial Rome at the Museo della Civiltà Romana by Eur (approachable by the A line of the underground just nearby the Colosseo)

ITINERARY ROME: REPUBLICAN AND IMPERIAL ROME
At the back of Colosseo begins a spread of green that gathers a lot of archaeological testimonies of republican and imperial Rome. 
In fact an other itinerary to walk is just which from Circo Massimo, by way of Terme di Caracalla we reach to the Porta San Sebastiano; from here begins the Appia Antica, the most representative of republican and imperial age. What today has become a splendid natural and archaeological park, at that time gave hospitality to the graves of most important roman families, as well as villas and other important monuments. Today a Public Institute manages the park and organizes itineraries on foot or by bike.
The heart of ancient Rome was the area of Fori but the real city reached in the plain of Campo Marzio. In this area rose great public building and structure for games. Here is born the Pantheon (temple devoted to all Gods) the most famous Piazza Navona built on which was in imperial age was the stadium Domiziano and, at the other side of Tevere, the mausoleum of emperor Adriano become Castel S.Angelo in medieval age. Nearby, by the Palazzo Altemps is possible admire prestigious sculpture dating back to ancient Rome.

ITINERARY ROME: REINASSENCE AND BAROQUE ROME
It’s just from here that we can individualize an other possible itinerary, a point of contact with Renaissance and Baroque Rome. A whole quarter testimony of this age: Piazza Navona, Campo de’ Fiori, Piazza Farnese, Via Giulia, Via dei Coronari, the Tridentino in Piazza di Ponte. Of course the churches of baroque age are a lot in this area of city: the church of Sant’Ivo at the Sapienza, Santa Maria della Pace, the Oratorio dei Filippini are the most representative.
The baroque art reaches his maximum expression in Piazza San Pietro in Vaticano, gateway to the splendid S.Pietro Basilica, consecrated in 1626. With the elevator is possible to go up still the cupola of Basilica and admire the whole Roma from overhead. Absolutely to visit, next to the basilica, theMusei Vaticani, that are 22 among rooms and collections.

ITINERARY ROME: MEDIEVAL ROME
On the contrary about the medieval age is remained very little; the building constructed in the area of Fori were sacrificed to free the space around the Campidoglio. Between Via delle Botteghe Oscure and Via Michelangelo Caetani we can find the Cripta Balbi, excellent testimony of Dark Ages. On the Lungotevere we can admire some medieval age mansion of important roman families. Also in this case it is possible to conclude the walk going to visit the Museo Nazionale del Medioevo at the Eur in the Palazzo delle scienze. 

ITINERARY ROME: POPULAR ROME
A self-itinerary is constituted by Trastevere quarter, the more authentic testimony of the popular Roman history. In fact although the transformations, the quarter has kept his popular charm, loved by tourists and above all by Romans. If you want to make your tour more exciting and joined to the popular quarter of city, you can contact the agency HappyRent that organizes exclusive tours aboard of vintage cycles such as the Vespa or the Lambretta. Crossing Trastevere River from Ponte Sisto the itinerary begins with Piazza Trilussa. From here a lot of alleys make Trastevere a fascinating and quite mystic quarter: Via Garibaldi till the Granicolo, Via Della Lugara on rise Villa Corsini (botanic garden) and Villa della Farnesina, Piazza Della Scala, Vicolo del Moro till to arrive to Piazza Santa Maria in Trilussa, pre-eminently tourists and Romans’ meeting-place. At Museo di Roma in Trastevere (Piazza S. Egidio, 1/b) a lot of paintings, printings and pictures testify the aspects of social Roman life in the period between the eighteenth and nineteenth-century. Crossing Viale Trastevere we can admire the other side of the quarter till to arrive to Ponte Cestio that brings to the Isola Tiberina on Tevere, office of the hospital Fatebenefratelli by 1548.

ITINERARY ROMA: MODERN ROME
At the end we have arrived to modern side of Rome, in just mentioned quarter Eur, called like this in prevision of Universal Exhibition in Rome (Esposizione Universale a Roma) in 1942, which never took place because of war. Wide roads, green places, seats of institutions and offices, and residential houses characterize this area. The Palazzo dei Congressi, the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro – known as quadrate Colosseo – and the PalaEur (today Palalottomatica) planned by Pierluigi Nervi are the most representative buildings of contemporary Roman age. Besides the Eur gives hospitality some of most important museums of the capital city: the Museo Preistorico and Etnografico “Luigi Pigorini”, the Museo Nazionale delle Arti and Tradizioni Popolari, the Museo della Civiltà Romana, the Museo dell’Alto Medioevo. At last, to conclude this itinerary with enjoyment we shall invite you to visit the Luneur, the Luna Park of the capital. 
What we can tell you more, visiting Rome is how making a trip in the time, between past and future, ancient and modern, traditions and inspirations…practically “Eternal” Rome is everybody’s city and forever. 

www.romaexplorer.it/rome/art_culture/rome_itinerary.htm

Activities for free in Rome!

The Grupo Regina Hoteles always have recommendatios for traveleres.

The Trevi Fountain

Rome may be a city of high fashion and expensive tastes, but its rich history and art offer plenty of culture that won’t cost you a dime, including churches and most monuments. You don’t have to look far for free activities in the Eternal City.

Attractions

The oldest standing domed structure in Rome, the Pantheon was built in 27 B.C. as a temple honoring all the Roman gods, then was converted in A.D. 609 to a Christian church. The famous architect Brunelleschi used it as inspiration when designing the cupola for the Duomo (cathedral) in Florence. Its most striking feature is the oculus, the open-air aperture at the top of the dome that lets in natural light. It is the burial place of several famous artists, including Raphael. Mass is held here Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Stroll through the ruins of what was once the center of a powerful empire at the  Foro Romano, the former commercial, governmental, and religious center of ancient Rome. It contains the remains of several temples and judicial buildings, and was the site of some of Rome’s most important events.

The Arco di Constantino, located near the Colosseum, is Rome’s largest arch. About 65 feet (20 meters) high,it was built in A.D. 315 to commemorate Emperor Constantine’s triumph over Maxentius, after which he allowed the practice of Christianity in the Roman empire.

See the “wedding cake,” as locals refer to it: Il Vittoriano, the large white-stone monument on Piazza Venezia near the Capitoline Hill, was constructed at the turn of the 20th century to honor Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of unified Italy. The building houses the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where an eternal flame burns. The massive monument is topped by a statue of Victor Emmanuel on a horse, accompanied by winged depictions of Victory. A museum inside details the history of the Italian Reunification. The large white columns around the building are sometimes called the “false teeth.”

Test your luck at La Bocca della Verità  (“The Mouth of Truth”). This grotesque sculpture of a wild-eyed face on the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin has a macabre reputation, made famous by Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Legend has it that if you put your hand in its gaping mouth and tell a lie, you’ll pull out nothing but a stump. 18 Piazza Bocca della Verità.

Walk off that gelato: The Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna make up the longest and widest staircase in Europe. Originally proposed by the French, this grand staircase leads from the Piazza di Spagna to the church of Trinità dei Monti (they became the “Spanish” steps after the Spanish embassy moved to the square). Once a hangout for artists, the steps are now abuzz with students, tourists, shoppers, and portrait sketchers.

The world center of the Catholic Church and the largest Roman Catholic building in the world, St. Peter’s Basilica is also an astounding work of art. Entry to the main floor is free. The outside colonnade and the 90-foot-tall (30-meter)baldacchino, the staggering bronze canopy that shelters the Papal Altar, where only the pope may celebrate Mass, were designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the greatest baroque sculptors. Don’t miss the “Pietà,” one of Michelangelo’s most famous statues (now sheltered behind glass after an attack by a hammer-wielding maniac), and make sure to rub St. Peter’s well-worn foot for good luck as you pass the bronze statue. There is a six-euro charge to climb up to the dome, designed by Michelangelo.

San Clemente, a church on Via San Giovanni, harbors three churches in one. The lowermost level contains a mithraeum, an ancient worship site; this is the best preserved of 12 similar sites discovered in Rome. Above the mithraeum is the first version of the church as a Christian worship site, with a sanctuary dating to the fourth century A.D. The fresco depicting St. Sisinus dates between the eighth and 11th centuries. The top level is home to a sanctuary built in the 12th century that contains some spectacular mosaics. Via San Giovanni in Laterano at Piazza San Clemente; +39 06 77 40 021.

Culture

The  Vatican Museums are free of charge on the last Sunday of every month, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (the last admission is at 12:30 p.m.). +39 06 69 88 33 33.

The Gallery of the National Academy of San Luca houses works by members of the academy, including Guido Reni. Admission is free. Piazza dell’Accademia di San Luca 77; +39 06 67 98 850.

Converted from the former Nazi headquarters of the SS Kommandatur, where many leaders of the Roman Resistance were tortured and imprisoned, the free Historic Museum of the liberation of Rome (Museo Storico della Liberazione) chronicles the events that occurred in Rome during World War II. Via Tasso 145; +39 06 70 03 866.

http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/2008/07/free-city/rome-text/3 

Grupo Regina Hoteles recommend

This week the Grupo Regina Hoteles recommed…

Edgar Mueller is an  street artist who is giving a lot to talk about, for many his work is not art. But what is clear is that he know how to make interaction with the urban public.

 

For more information..

www.metanamorph.com 

The last Low-Cost proposal!

Sounds strange but is the new propose of one of the most famous “Low Cost” companies which is studying the possibility of carrying passengers with out chairs in order to offer lower costs rates for users and increase the benefit of the company. This controverted propose can not take shape yet, because it needs the approval of the aviation authorities. The company also asked to Boeing to consider design spaces in the air-crafts where passengers can fly without chairs but with seat belts.

Photo selection

Creativity, design and art are 3 concepts that the Grupo Regina Hoteles never forget.We have made a selection of some creative photos!

The Hotel Pulitzer Roma!

This one of the boutique hoteles of The Grupo Regina Hoteles located in one of the most beautiful cities of the world!

A gum traveling around the city!

Art and innovation are concepts that go together with the Group Regina hotels we want to highlight the art and have brought this example! 

Simon Decker a talented artist who now lives in Frankfurt has a gum seizes Venice. The following pictures will show how the creative arts can innovate to attract the attention of the public.