Although not one of the locations where you spend the Carnival tradition, Rome also offers visitors a show of respect for the BEST PARTY of the year. For Carnival 2011, in fact, the events of the capital will open Saturday, February 26, with a parade of forms and colors that will leave from Piazza del Popolo to continue towards Via del Corso. For 10 days until March 8, the main city squares such as Piazza Navona and Piazza Venezia are colored animations and events that will please the visit of tourists and residents around the eternal city

Starts Saturday, February 19 the long appointment (nine-day event) for all boating enthusiasts and for those working in a sector, the shipbuilding, which has a strong presence on the coast of Lazio.

"The Show Boat and the Sea of Rome - said the councilor for productive activities, David Borden, explaining the event - has become an event of attraction in the exhibition industry and the administration intends to continue to support Fair in Rome 'organize an event so representative. Our capital, for too long, he almost suffered the presence of the sea to be recovered while the relationship with the culture and the Navy shipbuilding tradition that Lazio are key elements of its identity. Through the network of Centres Professional Training, Roma Capitale is pointing firmly on the training and development, giving young people the opportunity to learn the trades related to the sea and to interact with businesses in the area. Soon, moreover, the assembly will discuss the Capitoline 'expand the port of Ostia, which represents a further step forward for the economic development of our coast. "

The Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Space Fountain, Via Milano 13) contains from 12 February to 1 May, the exhibition "Colors of the World" organized by National Geographic Italy. A fascinating photographic journey made with the photos of the greatest photographers who work and collaborate with the magazine internationally and nationally.

The exhibition brings together 95 new images of great visual and emotional impact declined through colors: red, green, white and blue. Red, the color of the heart, blood, passion. Green, the color of nature, vegetation. White, the color of innocence, purity. Blue, water and sky. Four colors to describe the present and the future of the world, the strength and the weakness of nature and animals, humility, pride, sorrow and happiness of human beings.

Until February 13, 2011, is open to the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome and Italy CoBrA, an exhibition curated by Denis Laoureux Amaturo and Matilda, in collaboration with the Embassy of Belgium el'Academia Belgica. An exhibition of rare and important, if we consider for example the influence that the search was on CoBrA an artist like Keith Haring.


COBRA is the name by which he identified a group of artists and poets from Belgium, Holland and Denmark, who met on 8 November 1948 at the Café Notre-Dame de Paris. Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Joseph Noiret and Asger Jorn gave birth to one of the last great avant-garde movements. Cobra was short-lived, it broke up after only three years, but at a historic level brought many achievements in the freedom of expression and technique, as well as the theoretical point of view.