ARGENTINA THEATER

TEATRO ARGENTINA
Largo di Torre Argentina 52

Opened in 1732 and designed by the Marquis Girolamo Theodoli (1677/1766) for Duke Giuseppe Sforza Cesarini

In 1826 were added LOBBY, FOYER and FAÇADE (hitherto missing) by Pietro Holl (1780 / 1855-56)

In 1843 it was bought by Prince Alessandro Torlonia

Renewal in the years 1859/61 by Nicola Canevari

In 1869 it passed to the City of Rome for 100,000 scudi

Total reconstruction 1887/88 by Gioacchino Ersoch (1815/1902)

The restoration of 1926 by Marcello Piacentini (1881/1960) and the restoration of the years 1967/71 have almost completely cleared Ersoch’s reconstruction
The restoration of 2011/12 have given back the original soft color to the façade

In 1816 here was performed the world premiere of the opera The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini which ended in a fiasco
Already for the second performance the success was huge and the public went to Rossini’s house Rossini to celebrate after the show. The composer disappointed by the premiere had not gone to the theater and, hearing the uproar, at first he was afraid that people were coming there to beat him up

The Teatro Argentina was also the venue of the world premieres of the works by Giuseppe Verdi I Due Foscari in 1844 and La Battaglia di Legnano in 1849, the latter during the revolutionary period of the Roman Republic at the presence of the national heroes Giuseppe Garibaldi and Goffredo Mameli
From the first half of the twentieth century prose was staged in this theater

FIANO ALMAGIÀ PALACE

PALAZZO FIANO ALMAGIÀ

Piazza S. Lorenzo in Lucina angolo Via del Corso

Erected as Palazzo Peretti in 1624 on the former palace built in the years 1281/87 for the English cardinal Hugh Atratus of Evesham to the left of S. Lorenzo in Lucina

At the beginning of 1500s it was home of the Portuguese Cardinal Giorgio de Costa, who, occupying an apartment on the Roman arch adjacent to the palace, ended up having the arch referred to as ARCH OF PORTUGAL

It then passed to the Ottoboni family, Dukes of Fiano and finally in 1898 to the Almagià family who are still the owners

FAÇADE ON PIAZZA S. LORENZO IN LUCINA 1888 by Francesco Settimj (active 1875/88)

In 1568 nine sculptured blocks belonging to the Ara Pacis, which was originally located on this site, were discovered on the corner of Via in Lucina and Via del Giardino Theodoli, under the current CINEMA NUOVO OLIMPIA

In 1859 other findings were found during work directed by Gioacchino Ersoch (1815/1902)

In the atrium and in the courtyard-garden there is a collection of Roman marble reliefs and inscriptions

ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR

Vault with “Mythological scenes, landscapes and allegorical figures” by Baldassare Croce (about 1553/1628)

SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND CAMPO BOARIO

MATTATOIO E CAMPO BOARIO

Piazza Orazio Giustiniani

1888/91 Gioacchino Ersoch (1815/1902) Roman architect whose family was of Swiss origin

10 hectares (25 acres) area

Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome - Macro Testaccio

Branch of the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Via Nizza, whose permanent collection consists of about 600 works

The two pavilions were opened respectively in 2003 and 2007 and cover an area of about 1,000 square meters each. They are ideally suited to host works of contemporary art