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Many tourists visit Italy to enjoy food and wine, or to view her masterpieces, but not everybody experience Italian lifestyle, ’cause not everybody have been on board of Vespa!

Vespa Piaggio is a part of “Bel Paese” social history. For more than 60 years, Vespa has fascinated million of people and given the world an irreplaceable icon of Italian style and  a means of personal transport that has become synonymous with FREEDOM! It has been a revolutionary vehicle a motorcycle that changed the Italian’s people mobility, ’cause offers to everybody the means to get round.

Yesterday

Yesterday

It’s a design’s masterpieces by Corradino D’Ascanio: a cheap vehicle that emanateclass and elegance at first glance.

Vesapa has lived on from one geenration to the next, subtly modifying its image each time. It become the two-wheeler of the past war economic boom. During the Sixties and the Seventies the vehicle became a symbol for revolutionary ideas of the time and an icon of young culture.

And history continues today with the new generation of Vespa’s models.

Today

Today

Fascinating, exciting, exclusive tours of Rome on board vintage Vespas  from the ‘60s and ‘70s, in the company of  expert riders! You are sure to have a memorable day that’s all about enjoying the freedom of being on two-wheels!

To enjoy Italy with Vespa visit http://www.romanticatours.com and book your Rome’s vintage tour!

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Piccolo Lirico – Teatro Flaiano, via S. Stefano del Cacco, 15. Info 066796496 
From 2 Oct to 30 May 2009: 
Tosca 


Piccola Lirica’s edition of “Tosca” is a novelty that breaks all boundaries of operatic traditions. The Puccini classic is performed in a small theatre, with the main roles portrayed by emerging artists. The music is performed by a diminutive orchestra. Ninety minutes of art, during which melodrama and theatre meld within a set designed to take the viewer beyond the literal and into the symbolic. h20.

Information / Booking:
info@romanticatours.com

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Auditorium della Conciliazione, via della Conciliazione, 4 

From 1 to 8 Oct: Uto Ughi per Roma 


1 Oct: 
Concert marking the awarding of the “Una vita nella Musica” prize to Wolfgang Sawallisch. With the “I Filarmonici di Roma” Chamber Orchestra. Violin and conductor Uto Ughi 
3 Oct: 
Uto Ughi and the “Orchestra Sinfonica della Toscana”. Conductor Mosche Atzmon 
8 Oct: 
Incontro di solisti. With Uto Ughi (on the violin) and Franco Petracchi (on the double-bass), Aleksandar Madzar (on the piano), Francesco Fiore (on the viola) and Luca Signorini (on the cello) 
28 Oct: 
Burt Bacharach 

 

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Museo di Roma, piazza S. Pantaleo, 10. Info 0667108346 
Until 26 Oct: 
Vita in Comune. 1930 – 2007. Fotografie di Roma dagli Archivi dell’Ufficio Stampa del Campidoglio (City life. 1930-2007. Photos of Rome from the municipal archives) 
This exhibition of 200 photos allows visitors to travel back in time and experience Rome’s history in various – “Urban landscape”, “Social life”, “Visits and ceremonies”. These fascinating photos in black & white and colour show how the Eternal City has changed through the ages: visitors will see the ancient country street that is now the busy Via Cristoforo Colombo, the legendary “pizzardone” (traffic officer) in Piazza Venezia, and Anna Magnani reading Trilussa… “Vita in comune”: the people, places and history of Rome.

 Tue-sun h9-19. €8, reduced €6

 

Trevi fountain

Trevi fountain

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