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How much Rome fits in a day? For tourists can walk on the search for the Dolce Vita, as it is from Fellini films knows. You will experience a city rich in ancient treasures - but sometimes has trouble in arriving today.

 

Rome - Finalmente! After a painfully long week full of noise and hectic everyday life takes on the Tiber at last weekend up. If Peter is now tilted in St. Peter's and the sunlight wraps, then you can start the day, as he always should start with a cappuccino and a sweet-filled cornetto.

Whether museum and cinema, shopping or an extended trip to the Roman restaurant with an aperitif in advance - all but really wants to be moody begun. And even if the "Dolce Vita" of Federico Fellini with a light layer of dust covered the history and the Rome of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the past: to stroll and enjoy the Eternal City invites always.

So, what was with the cappuccino in the cafeteria at the top of the Terrazza Caffarelli with the view of the Palatine hill? At the bottom of the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo collects a wedding party, which still varies between composite and joyful countenance.

Espresso with a view

The army already attracts international tourists up to the treasures of the Capitoline Museums to admire. Since, the Romans rather not snake, but are straight on to the terrace on the smallest of the Roman hill and looks reverently - with a cup of espresso in his hand - on the mild morning mist in Trastevere neighborhood is on the right side Tiber.

Such a view invites further to stroll, the city is manageable and provides enjoyment of art in all corners and ends. Certainly, Rome is not a metropolis of boulevards such as the Seine-Paris.

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The "Eternal City": Center of Rome is easily explored on foot - with the car to get ahead but only poorly

But Rome is littered with gems from the ancient and later times - such as the Quirinalspalast inhabited by President Giorgio Napolitano and only a short walk away from the cafeteria. In the former Stables - the Scuderie, which is now a museum - the art encounters interested trotter on works from the brilliant time, most recently about the high Renaissance masterpieces by Giovanni Bellini. And that is certainly not just a magnet for tourists Rome.

Before lunch with a light antipasto and a glass of Frascati wine sits the money yet not so loose. The shopping spree, to a vertrödelten day in the capital of Italy in any case, may be good but we still put the afternoon - perhaps in the Via del Babuino between Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps, that is, below the Villa Borghese, on the northern edge of the historic center . Severed with the New York's Madison Avenue, the street lined with boutiques trend known only as names, from Jil Sander to Tiffany's.

Too modern for Rome?

Before lunch, but still waiting for the Emperor Augustus on the banks of the Tiber a "buon giorno" - his Peace Altar and the Ara Pacis museum "are at least talk again in Rome. Because the post-new mayor Giovanni Alemanno likes the strictly contemporary building just do not know that the American star architect Richard Meier to protect the plant was designed. My favorite would have torn him Alemanno. So you have to hurry, the hyper-modern piece of architecture of glass and steel of the "Ara Pacis Augustae" to pay tribute.

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Because actually doing it but the city with the past, overwhelming everything quite well, now and then a step to venture into today.

Now is the enormous appetite but "spaghetti all vongole" or rather the Involtini (rolls) on Roman Art? Let's see what "Il Gusto, near Augustus around the corner on the card. The well-known faces from the Roman cultural life are already there, it is a day when you outside on the terrace on the Piazza Augusto Imperatore place and that they can sit back. Herrlich!

"Il Gusto" is a gastronomic magnet concept in style and seems to have no end: Osteria and cafe, pizzeria and wine bar, cheese shop and shop with fine kitchen utensils - it's all that yes, the "Dolce Vita" in the 21st Century. Well, Fellini Via Veneto is the sterile realm meeting stunted, and Anita Ekberg increased today in the Trevi Fountain, and would rubberneck Carabinieri quickly on the spot.

Above all, Rome is no cinema metropolis of rank, as well helping the young, previously little-known film nothing. The Kinofan needs during his afternoon stroll but not go so far to get the latest Woody Allen movie in its original version to be able to see. Because there is the one the movie "Metropolitan" on the Via del Corso, a hotspot for cinema friends, from the outside it looks like a classic cafe with tables and bar

As an alternative, in the historical center would remain the "Nuovo Olimpio" in the small Via in Lucina. Popular with all that but on the Roman noses look is still hidden in the Trastevere, the "Nuovo Sacher", one of the director Nani Moretti equipped meeting place for cinema lovers of all nations. After the visit to the cinema loads a movie nearby bookstore to browse, as well as for brunch.

Buffalo mozzarella and balsamic Modena

About the cinematic debates would smooth the shopping list for the delicatessen shop in oblivion can. When does "Roscioli in the Via dei Giubbonari near the Campo dei Fiori is actually sealed? Well, lucky again, and as soon as look at the showcase will run one's mouth water: buffalo mozzarella and parmesan are matured well here, and the aged Edelessig "balsamico from Modena is also available.

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Now the legs tired from the city running, it will be time for an aperitif. While the Romans usually a wide arc around the Piazza Navona tourist magnet, is in addition to a very silent street hidden "Caffe della Pace" - since time immemorial, it seems - an attraction of intellectuals and those who like to keep. The tired walkers opted, however, but now for the canapés in the "Salotto 42", the equally as cozy chic resort on the charming Piazza di Pietra to the Chamber of Commerce.

How does the evening? Another leap in the multi-museum before dinner - or maybe more after that? Indeed, following an equally successful as long renovation invites the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on Friday and Saturday for the late visit.

The magnificent building on the Via Nazionale moves only because of its magnificent architectural stockings interested in the arts - and the evening is not just a special atmosphere, one is also not on the feet. As for the exhibitions, there is the enormous bandwidth, and they sometimes threaten the general store to be. After a Mark Rothko retrospective in his high holy halls of the Palazzo bestach last example, with a large Etruscan review.

So it only to the museum and then "Perilli in the Testaccio district, the scene of Rome, the audience for some time for themselves discovered. Inconspicuous on the broad Via Marmorata located, is "Perilli" to those taverns to the "good old days" remember and thus for the day's finale almost obtrude. Lamminnereien or the traditional oxtail stew: The choice is difficult.

At the final chord Kastanienmus feel of a stroll then, as the day was exhausting. The dance in a disco-Testaccio falls flat this time - and the diary is full anyway.