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Things to do in Rome/Vatican

278 activities, venues and outings in Rome/Vatican, from theatres and live music to parks and tours.

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Teatro Argentina, Rome/Vatican
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Things to do in Rome/Vatican

  1. DoTheatre

    Teatro Argentina

    The Teatro Argentina (directly translating to "Theatre Argentina") is an opera house and theatre located in Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. One of the oldest theatres in Rome, it was constructed in 1731 and inaugurated on 31 January 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro. It is built over part of the curia section of the Theatre of Pompey.

    Limited wheelchair access

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    Pincio

    The Pincian Hill ( PIN-sh(ee-)ən; Italian: Pincio [ˈpintʃo]; Latin: Mons Pincius) is a hill in the northeast quadrant of the historical centre of Rome. The hill lies to the north of the Quirinal, overlooking the Campus Martius. It was outside the original boundaries of the ancient city of Rome, and was not one of the Seven hills of Rome, but it lies within the wall built by Roman Emperor Aurelian between 270 and 273.

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    Vatican Hill

    Vatican Hill (Latin: Mons Vaticanus; Italian: Colle Vaticano) is a hill in Rome, located on the right bank (west side) of Tiber river, opposite to the traditional seven hills of Rome. The hill also gave the name to Vatican City. It is the location of St.

    75 m high

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    Aventine Hill

    The Aventine Hill is one of the Seven Hills on which ancient Rome was built. It belongs to Ripa, the modern twelfth rione, or ward, of Rome.

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    Villa Borghese Park

    Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third-largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 197.7 acres), after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, or party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection.

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    Teatro Valle

    The Teatro Valle (literally Valley Theater) is a theatre and former opera house in Rome, Italy. It was built in 1726 for the Capranica family. In the middle of the 19th century, it switched from staging opera and theatre to only performances of spoken drama.

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    Villa Doria Pamphilj

    The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on the Gianicolo (or the Roman Janiculum), just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia commences. It began as a villa for the Pamphili family and when the line died out in the eighteenth century, it passed to Prince Giovanni Andrea IV Doria, and has been known as the Villa Doria Pamphili since.

    Closed · opens 7 am

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    Monte Mario

    Monte Mario (English: Mount Mario or Mount Marius) is the hill that rises in the north-west area of Rome (Italy), on the right bank of the Tiber, crossed by the Via Trionfale. It occupies part of Balduina, of the territory of Municipio Roma I (Roma Centro), of Municipio Roma XIV (Roma Monte Mario) and a small portion of Municipio Roma XV of Rome, thus including part of the Quarters Trionfale, Della Vittoria and Primavalle. The same toponym also identifies the urban area which extends over the hill, close to Via Trionfale and the first stretch of Via di Torrevecchia, with the railway station of the same name.

    139 m high

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    Teatro Capranica

    The Teatro Capranica is a theatre situated at 101 Piazza Capranica in the Colonna district of Rome. Originally constructed in 1679 by the Capranica family and housed in the early Renaissance Palazzo Capranica, it was the second public theatre to open in Rome. It was the site of many premieres of Baroque operas including Caldara's Tito e Berenice, Scarlatti's Griselda, and Vivaldi's Ercole su'l Termodonte.

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    Accademia Filarmonica Romana

    The Accademia Filarmonica Romana is a musical institution based in Rome, Italy. It was established in 1821 by a group of upper class amateur musicians led by the Marquis Raffaele Muti Papazzurri (1801–1858) in order to encourage the performance of chamber music and symphony, and to perform in concert operas whose representation was hampered by censorship. In 1824, it became an official institution of the Papal States with the aim of "training students to the exercise of the vocal and instrumental music." The Academy suspended its activities between 1849 and 1856 for economic difficulties, and in 1860 it was disbanded by the papal government, as many of its members were accused of having…

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    Bioparco

    Bioparco di Roma is a 17-hectare (42-acre) zoological garden located on part of the original Villa Borghese estate in Rome, Italy. There are 1,114 animals of 222 species maintained.

    Entry 16.00 EUR

  12. DoPark

    Villa Sciarra

    Villa Sciarra is a park in Rome named for the villa at its centre. It is located between the neighborhoods of Trastevere, Gianicolo and Monteverde Vecchio.

  13. DoTheatre

    Teatro Quirino

    The Teatro Quirino is an opera house in Rome opened in 1871. It hosted the premiere of Pietro Mascagni's operetta Sì. Its historical name has been joined by the recognition for one of the most acclaimed Italian theatrical actors of the twentieth century, Vittorio Gassman.

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    Teatro Sistina

    The Teatro Sistina is a theatre in Rome, Italy. The building, designed by Marcello Piacentini, was begun in 1946 on the former site of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Polish Institute. It was inaugurated on 28 December 1949 as a cinema, but later become mostly used for theatrical and cabaret representations.

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    Auditorium Conciliazione

    Auditorium della Conciliazione, also known as Auditorio Pio, is an audience hall and concert hall on the Via della Conciliazione in the Borgo district of Rome. Conceived in the 1930s as part of a vast Mussolini-ordered redevelopment of the district, it was not completed until 1950 after post-World War II work by architects Marcello Piacentini and Giorgio Calza Bini. Surrounding it are wings of the large Palazzo San Pio X, a broadcasting facility also part of the 1930s conception.

    Limited wheelchair access

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    Cinema Adriano

    The Teatro Adriano (i.e. "Adriano Theater"), also known as Politeama Adriano and Cinema Adriano, is a cinema and former theatre located in Piazza Cavour, Rome, Italy. It was built by Pio Gallas and Romeo Bisini on a project by architect Luigi Rolland (the father of Luigi Moretti) and inaugurated on 1 June 1898 with a representation of the Amilcare Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda conducted by Edoardo Mascheroni.

  17. DoPark

    Hadrian's Mausoleum Park

    Parco Adriano is a park in Rome, Italy on the northern bank of the Tiber, just to the east of the Vatican. It contains the Castel Sant'Angelo. It is a good place for families to go to, because it has a playground for children, who can "let off steam" after visiting churches and museums.

    Closed · opens 7 am

  18. DoNature reserve

    Parco Regionale Urbano del Pineto

    The Pineto Regional Park is a protected natural area of Lazio, Italy, instituted in 1987. It has an area of approximately 240 hectares, which includes Pineta Sacchetti. The park is in the northwest area of the city of Rome, in Municipio XIX, shared between the districts of Aurelio, Primavalle, and Trionfale.

  19. DoCinema

    Nuovo Sacher

    Via Girolamo Induno

  20. DoTheatre

    Gigi Proietti Globe Theatre Silvano Toti

    Largo Aqua Felix

  21. DoCinema

    Azzurro Scipioni

    82 Via degli Scipioni

  22. DoCinema

    Casa del Cinema

    Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1

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    Teatro Salone Margherita

    75 Via dei Due Macelli

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    Anfiteatro Quercia del Tasso

    Passeggiata del Gianicolo

  25. DoArts centre

    Forum Austriaco di Cultura

    113 Viale Bruno Buozzi

    Closed · opens 9 am Monday

  26. DoPark

    Parco di Monte Ciocci

    Via Anastasio II

    Closed · opens 7 am

  27. DoCinema

    Cinema Troisi

    1 Via Girolamo Induno

    Wheelchair accessible

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    Eden

    74 Piazza Cola di Rienzo

    Wheelchair accessible

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    Farnese

    Campo de' Fiori, 56

    Limited wheelchair access

  30. DoTheatre

    L’arciliuto

    5 Piazza di Montevecchio

    Live music

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    Vascello

    78 Via Giacinto Carini

    Limited wheelchair access

  32. DoSummit

    Monte Ciocci

    Via Lucio Apuleio

    90 m high

  33. DoCinema

    Alcazar

    Via Cardinale Merry del Val, 14

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    Cinema Intrastevere

    3 Vicolo Moroni

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    Cinema dei Piccoli

    Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 15

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    Nuovo Olimpia

    Via in Lucina, 16

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    Off-Off theatre

    19 Via Giulia

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    Teatro Argot Studio

    VIA NATALE DEL GRANDE 27

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    Teatro Belli

    11a

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    Teatro Due Roma

    37 Vicolo dei Due Macelli

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