Hints and Tips
CLOSE TO EVERYTHING! . "CASA MIA" IS 10 MINUTES AWAY (BY
UNDERGROUND "LINE B") FROM THE MOST POPULAR MUSEUMS , GALLERIES ,
THEATRES OF ROME AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES . . NOT TO MENTION ALL THE
SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS OF CENTRAL ROME . . IT IS WITHIN EASY REACH OF
THE MAIN ATTRACTIONS OF ROME WHICH INCLUDE : COLOSSEUM, PALATINO OR
ROMAN IMPERIAL FORUM OR ANCIENT CIRCO MASSIMO , TREVI FOUNTAIN ,
NAVONA SQUARE , SPAIN SQUARE , AND SO ON IN 10 MINUTES BY UNDERGROUND
. . CLOSE TO "CASA MIA", IN THE EUR DISTRICT YOU CAN VISIT :THE
PALNETARIUM AND THE ASTRONOMICAL MUSEUM, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MIDDLE
AGES . . IT WAS THE FIRST POST CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IN ROME
. . THE MUSEUM CONSISTS OF 8 ROOMS WITH THE EXHIBITS DATING FROM THE
IV AND THE XIV CENTURY AND ORIGINATING IN ROME OR THE CENTRE OF ITALY
. . NATIONAL PREHISTORICAL & ETNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM : THE MUSEUM IS
DIVIDED INTO TWO SECTIONS : HISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY AND EUROPEAN
ETHNOGRAPHY . . THE COMPLEX "TRE FONTANE" IS LOCATED IN THE AREA WHERE
, ACCORDING TO TRADITION , THE MARTYRDOM OF S. PAUL TOOK PLACE . .
ROME'S BIGGEST RECREATIONAL PARK , CHARCTERISED BY THE BIG WHEEL . THE
SEA SIDE WITH ITS SANDY BEACHES AND "OSTIA ANTICA" THE SPLENDID RUINS
OF THE HARBOUR CITY OF ANCIENT ROME (A LITTLE POMPEII), ARE AT ABOUT
15 MINUTES BY CAR OR..EVEN EASIER..20 MINUTES BY TRAIN FROM OUR
NEAREST UNDERGROUN STATION (200 METERS.124 MILES) .

In
a few minutes walking you will find supermarkets, post office ,
banks,
restaurants, pharmacies, all kind of shops.
As well as:

AMUSEMENT PARK
OF ROME "LUNEUR"
ROME'S BIGGEST RECREATIONAL PARK , CHARACTERISED BY
THE BIG WHEEL .

Address:, Via delle Tre Fontane.


MUSEUMS: The ASTRONOMICAL MUSEUM AND THE PLANETARIUM.
With the recent
opening of a new Planetarium in the E.U.R.’s district, the city of
Rome
Cultural Policies
Councillorship finally returns to its citizens a
brand new institution, meant to be of extreme value for the
popularization and the didactic of astronomy.
The Planetarium is also
part of a wider facility, including both a Documentation Centre and
an
Astronomical Museum.
The new Planetarium is hosted inside the Museum of
Roman Civilization and it ideally represents the final destination
of
a journey that, starting from the vestiges of the ancient past, will
bring the visitors to the wonders of a faraway
future throughout both
humanistic and scientific cultures.
The shows will be aimed to both
pupils form school groups but also to a more general public, with an
estimated annual
attendance of around 100.000 visitors.

The
ASTRONOMICAL MUSEUM.
The museum’s exposition covers an area of about
400 sqm, but it is quite different from any traditional museum or

science centre. This museum wishes to be a sort of “astronomical
theatre” where the visitor’s curiosity and want
of discovery will be
enhanced by the help of images, animations and of a huge collection
of
models and dioramas.
The visiting tour starts from the Earth then goes
on with a “landing” on the Moon, followed by a journey to the
Solar
System planets and the interstellar space. The virtual journey is
supposed to stimulate the visitors’
interest in crucial themes such as
Time, Space and the Origin of the Chemical Elements, which will all
be
developed
throughout the visit. The visitor will then be cast back to
Earth through a virtual “black hole”.
Among the installations and
facilities in the Museum area there are:
two big dioramas, representing
the lunar surface and the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

a section
of a star, in which visitors will be invited to enter to see the
inner
structure of a star.

the in scale models of the Solar System Planets
and of the Moon.

10 multimedia workstations enabling to expand onto
the contents of the exposition with images, videos and didactical
games.

35 show cases reproducing models of satellites, space probes
and the like, 15 monitors, a bookshop.

Orari del Museo Astronomico:
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 9:00 - 14:00
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 9:00 - 19:00
ADDRESS: Museo della Civiltà Romana [EUR]. Piazza G. Agnelli, N° 10


Museums: Museo
Nazionale dell'Alto Medioevo (Middle Ages).
The Museo Nazionale dell’
Alto Medioevo was opened in 1967 in the Palazzo delle Scienze
dell’EUR;
it was the first
post classical archaeological museum in Rome.
Contents
The museum consists of eight rooms where the exhibits (all
dating from the IV and the XIV century and originating
in Rome or the
centre of Italy) are divided as follows: in the first room material
from the late classical era;
the second and third rooms contain
material from the necropolis of Nocera Umbra and Castel Trosino, the
two most
important Lombardic necropoli of Central Italy, discovered in
the nineteenth century; the fourth and fifth rooms
contain exhibits
from the Carolingian era; in the sixth and seventh rooms materials
recovered from the two medieval
settlements of S. Cornelia near Veio
and S. Rufina on the via Boccea are exhibited; the eighth room
contains
a
collection of fabrics and reliefs produced in Egypt in the late
Roman and in the Islamic era.
Not to be missed
women's clothing
accessories ; among the exhibits from the necropoli; a relief from
the
Carolingian era featuring
a male, perhaps Charlemagne ascending into
heaven and bearing two animals in his hands.

ADDRESS: Viale Lincoln N°
1
Opening Hours: From Thursday to Saturday 9:00-14:00 - Sunday and
Holidays 9:00-13:00 (Monday closed)
Admission: 4 Euro (2 Euro) free to
under 18 and over 60


Museum Nazionale Etnografico Luigi Pigorini

The Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini was
founded
by Luigi Pigorini in 1876. The present
head offices in the EUR,
designed in 1938 and finished in 1943, is very similar to that of
the
Museo della Arti
e Tradizioni Popolari, since it is part of the
overall design of the Piazza Imperiale in which both of the
buildings
are located.
Contents
The museum is divided into two sections: History
and Protohistory and European Ethnography. The first contains
exhibits
of the most important civilisations which existed between the
Neolithic
and Iron age. The second section
contains more than 60 thousand
objects produced by Indigenous Indoeuropean civilisations. Some of
the
exhibits
are the only examples of their kind in the world.
Not to be
missed
The gold prenestine Fibula, with one of the oldest inscriptions
in Latin.

ADDRESS: P.zza G. Marconi 14
Opening Hours: From Thursday
to Saturday 9:00-18:45 , Sunday 9:00-13:30 (Monday Closed)
Admission: 4
Euro (2 Euro) Free under 18 and over 60
Internet Site and Email:
pigorini.arti.beniculturali.it -

Museums della Civiltà Romana .
The architectural complex which
accomodates the Museo della Civiltà Romana is the work of architects
Pietro Aschieri,
Domenico Bernardini, Cesare Pascoletti and Gino
Peressutti. It consists of two symmetrical projecting parts joined
by
an imposing colonnade. Its construction, which began with the
building
work for the E42, was interrupted by
the outbreak of war, but
recommenced after 1945. The museum was opened to the public 10 years
later.
Contents
The Museo della Civiltà Romana consists of 59 sections,
which cover an area of 12,000 square metres. The first
rooms are
dedicated to the history of Rome from its origins to the VI Century
A.
D.; this is followed by a
section on Christianity and by other
sections concerning the reconstruction of various aspects of Roman
civilisation.
Not to be missed
models of the different eras of Rome a
complete set of models depicting Trajan's column

ADDRESS: P.zza G.
Agnelli 10, 00144 Roma
Opening Hours: From Thursday to Saturday 9:00-
18:45 , Sunday 9:00-13:30
Closed on: Monday
Admission: EUROS 5,00,
free to under 18's and over 60's and schools (with an
accompanying
letter)