On our second trip to Rome, we still haven’t discovered but a fraction of it’s museums and it’s monuments, we just tend to get lost in those romantic narrow streets, nose up, admiring the graceful ochre frontages… Ochres are also in the antique brickwork…. …and even the cars follow the proper colour-coding!
This incredible spot was recommended by my favourite anything-Italian-blog: Urban Italy Antique sculptures from the Capitolino Museum collections are here presented amongst the machinery of a disused power station: the Centrale Montemartini. A total hit especially at the moment with the prevailing industrial trend. Added bonus: it is totally out of the way, so free
On a recent week-end in Roma, the discovery of yet one more of Zaha Hadid’s master piece, the MAXXI pure sensual free flowing architectural bliss that I’ll let you enjoy: Inside: a fab exhibition of Architectural 3D models from major Roman Architects….. and contemporary art that I won’t even try to describe as just can’t
The MACRO is a Contemporary art fund/museum, I had spotted this installation in a magazine days before our trip to Rome, and suddenly, driving into Rome’s centre, « Big Bambu » just seemed to jump out of the surrounding buildings, which triggered my curiosity even more. The construction is only made of bambus and climbing cords, creating