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OUR SELECTION OF SPECIAL ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
Main highlights and important tourist sites in Rome are all well-known, nevertheless we will send you our own personal list of what to visit and recommendations to do it at its best.
But here on this page, we intend to inform you on special activities and events which can add an extra interesting content to the traditional mere visit of major tourist sites.
Most of them are addressed to the roman citizens, who are daily exposed to the "great beauty" of Rome, but also to an international public, offering a multilingual translation.
But let's make it short now and let us introduce you the:
VIAGGIO NEI FORI
Journeys through Ancient Rome
A night-time visit of Roman forums accomplished through an extraordinary journey from present to the past and back, thanks to a cultural multimedia show.
The two forums involved are the forum of Augustus and the forum of Caesar. Spectators can choose one of them or buy a combo ticket.
Forum of Augustus
The show is an immersive documentary based on the remains of the forum, displaying a faithful reconstruction of the area with exiciting special effects of all kinds. The story tells about Augustus and the expansion in arts, technology, legal rules which the Roman emperor achieved under his guidance. The city of Rome, at that time, had more than one million inhabitants: no city in the world had ever had a population of those proportions; only London in the XIX century reached that size. It was the great metropolis of antiquity, holding the supremacy in economics, law administration, political influence and entertainment.
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Location: via ALESSANDRINA, Largo CORRADO RICCI side
Ticket costs 15,00 euro; Combo ticket costs 25,00 euro
Forum of Caesar
After the great success of past editions of the Forum of Augustus, the event enlarged this year also to the Forum of Caesar. The show starts revealing the huge work of excavation made to bring back to light most of the forums remains and the scenographic via dei Fori Imperiali.
Then the story is focused on the big personage of Julius Caesar, and describing the works done to build his new grand forum the show immerges the spectators into the daily life in the forum at the time of ancient Rome through video shows and reconstructions.
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Location: Foro di Traiano, next to Trajan's column
Ticket costs 15,00 euro; Combo ticket costs 25,00 euro
Tickets can be purchased directly to the ticket office, which opens one hour before, or purchased online at: http://ticket.museiincomuneroma.it/foro-di-augusto/?lang=en
Some information about the author
Every person here in Italy knows well the journalist and scientific popularizer Piero Angela who, with his famous scientific tv-show Quark, raised the passion of naturalistic and historical documentaries in thousand of all-aged Italians. He is the author of VIAGGIO NEI FORI, a high guarantee of competence and entertainment together.
