Yes Hotel Rome Travel Blog: The Rome travel guide

-Those who love extreme emotions will be glad to know that the Red Bull X-fighters, a team of the best FMX bike riders will be visiting Rome.

After several years of extraordinary success around the world here they come again, for the first time the greatest show ever of freestyle in the world will be taking place in Italy, and of course in the greatest city of Rome , this eternal city will host the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour.

This is going to be the lucky city where they’re going to fight for the first place in the Red Bull X-Fighters.

The 2^st of October 2010 it’s going to be a wonderful day for those fanatics of freestyle motocross , the best riders like Adam Jones , Andrè Villa , Blake Williams, Cameron Sinclair, and the wildest guy Jeremy Stenberg  are going to be showing off and giving everything they have for the 1^st place..

If you want feel adrenaline, this is the day , don’t miss this great opportunity.

 For more info please visit : www.redbullxfighters.com, and don’t forget; your best options to live Rome to the most are Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes!

 Tickets are already available online the cost is :

 MFA FORUM : 50 Euro

Olympic FORUM : 50 Euro 

CURVS : 35 Euro

Our blogger: Angelo

-After 20 years the Dutch master comes back to Rome with a not-to-be-missed exhibition that will draw crowds from all around the world.

The artist, the dreamer: Vincent van Gogh. Between change and permanency. Always in constant evolution searching for eternal. This two forces represented in the dual environment city-country. The city in constant evolution, the countryside peaceful and  unchangeable . The exhibition ‘’Campagna senza tempo e città moderna’’ focused in the contrast of this duality that has equally fascinated the painter.

 At the Vittoriano Museum , 110 works from Van Gogh from October 9^th 2010 until 30^th January 2011 paintings from the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the Guggenheim, the ‘Hammer Museum, National Gallery of Canada, the National Tate and the Louvre, all selected by Cornelia Homburg.

On one side,  the city a place where industrial development was changing forever the destiny of man, on the other the hard but honest  life of the peasants, for van Gogh a timeless value.

 An artist whose delicate psychological balance and talent leaded to a generous social impulse toward religious artistic expression. Drawings depicting mostly menial workers in mines (He read popular novels describing the misery of the populations of industrial cities). His social sensitivity embrace everyday people an his conflicts but at the same time seeing nature as direct experience of the Divine.

And don’t forget, Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes are your best options to explore all what the eternal city has to offer.

Our blogger today: Marcelo

Our Blogger: Raul

- Rome offers its visitors many entertainment options during summer, and the Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival is one of the highlights.
If you are visiting Rome in the next weeks you have to know that summer in the eternal city is really hot. An exciting option for these hot nights is to listen some great music in one of the most beautiful Roman villas, and you can get exactly this by attending the Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival.

The festival, that had its first edition in 1994, is already an institution in Rome and brings every year some of the most exciting jazz musicians in the Italian and international scene.

Here you have some of our picks for the upcoming weeks:

August 6- Rosario Giuliani. Giuliani, an eclecticitalian jazzman will be peforming compositions by cool jazz legend, Lennie Tristano.

August 7- Intra/Tommaso/Gatto trio. Three leading figures of the Italian jazz scene get together for an exciting evening of first class musicianship.

These are only our picks, but the festival goes on well into september. You can check the whole program here.

The Cranberries are to be again on the main stage of  international live tours : Rome will welcome them at the Ippodromo delle Capannelle as part of the event Rock in Roma for a huge concert on 5th July 2010 singing their greatest hits and some new songs too !
The band is an Irish pop-rock group born in 1990s.
Noel and Mike Hogan, two brothers from Limerick , formed the band with drummer Fergal Patrick Lawler in 1990. Dolores O’Riordan won the audition to become the vocalist singing  the song “Linger”.
The band was originally called The Cranberry Saw Us, a pun that makes the verse to “Cranberry Sauce”.
Their demo sold well locally, so they recorded new songs and signed to major label Island Records. Their first piece was a flop. But then, with the advent of Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can not We? the group’s success grew unabated. The second single, Linger, immediately became a big hit in Britain and the United States . The single Dreams then followed the success of the first songs and shortly after the group became one of the most famous and later used by television (advertising, television, etc.).
In 1994, O’Riordan married Don Burton, the band’s manager. O’Riordan status caused tensions within the group during the recording of No Need to Argue, a new success that includes the famous Zombie (violence in Northern Ireland ) and Ode to My Family. The success of this album is a contributory factor which subsequently grew many British bands like Oasis, Radiohead, Blur and Placebo.

After a period of separation that lasted seven years in which team members have dedicated themselves to their individual projects, Dolores O’Riordan, Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler Mike Hogan have decided to return to perform together and plan the future of the group planning a tour and announcing going back into the studio soon to record new songs.

More about the Cranberries in Rome

Further reading on Music in Rome

And for your stay in Rome, book a good and central hotel in Rome not far from the Rome Cappannelle.

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Our Blogger: Giuseppe

The race which is going to take place in Rome on May 30 has been defined the “craziest race in the world” and is an urban race on which the runners are required to pass some extreme tests following a route that takes them to some of the most interesting landmarks in the city.

This will be the second edition of this competition in Rome.The race will start at 9.30 at Piazzale di Ponte Milvio.

This year the single racers and teams (1 man with 2 women or 2 women with 1 man) have to cover 17 km trying to overcome a series of natural and artificial tests and obstacles.

Given that there won’t be any refreshment stations, competitors are advised to take everything they may need along with them (water, energizers, etc).

The Enrolment Form may be found on the site www.romanolimits.com or in a number of sports magazines. They should be fully completed and sent via post or fax to the “Rome No Limits” Secretary Office.

According to the latest news, the race has been postponed to a dete to be defined between September 26 and October 10. If you need further information, please visit the following website: www.romanolimits.com to get updated details.

And for accomodation and other travel tips don’t forget to visit the websites of Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes.

One of the events more expected this summer in Rome is the concert of a talented and sensual English singer: her name is Florence Welch, playing with her band, “the machine”, she’s already been defined as heiress of Kate Bush, Siouxsie e Pj Harvey and very soon she has became the pop diva more appreciated and cuddled on the English stage , climbing the charts of half the world and conquering the Italian radios too with the single  You’ve got the love.

After staying at the very first position on the English charts and winning the  Brit Awards with the album  Lungs, there are rumors about a  collaboration of her with Thom York , the singer of Radiohead.

HThe band’s debut album is a very original work that doesn’t betray the best English tradition, being able anyway to  go beyond the definition of independent rock . This album was made inside a debunked synagogue with the help of  two among the most sought-after producers   : James Ford (already working for Klaxons and Arctic Monkeys) and Paul Epworth (Bloc Party).

When Florence was very young at school she was a “peculiar character”  who used to read Poe and Jack The Ripper, to listen to the Velvet Underground and make gothic drawings  ( so that her mates used to define her as “macabre” ) : a teenager’s past a little bit dark transformed into an absolutely bright present; Florence says “ I love singing, I love dancing, I love playing the drums. The fact that someone pays me for doing it, well is just incredible”.

Florence has also been chosen by the Blur to open their concert in London and Manchester in June 2009. The band’s Roman concert will take place at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica, located only a short bus trip away from Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes.

Our blogger: Raul

The first of may concert is already a tradition in Rome. Every year on this day some of the most famous singers and rock bands in Italy are summoned to the square of Saint John in the Lateran to play to an enthusiastic crowd.

The event, originally planned as a celebration of the workers’ day, is so popular that many people come from towns all over Italy to enjoy a day of music and sight-seeing in the Eternal City. If you want to get a taste of good Italian music and some of the fun that comes with an open-air event like this one, this is your best bet.

This year the featured artist will be Vinicio Capossela, a cult singer well-known in Italy for his strange looks and his re-imagination of Italian folklore. Another interesting names in the cast are Paolo Nutini and Irene Grandi and Carmen Consoli, two great musicians and songwriters. By the way, this year the host of the concert will be a woman for the first time, almosT a hommage to the growing urgence of Italian women to create and participate in all aspects of life.

To get to Saint John’s sqare from Yes Hotel or Hotel Des Artistes: all you have to do is take the red subway line from the Termini station and then get off at San Giovanni. Since some hours before the concert the station is closed, due to the great affluence of attendants you might need to get off one station before, at Manzoni, and then get walking to Saint John’s.

Our Blogger: Vanda

As every spring from 1951 you will have the chance to admire one of the most beautiful sights the Eternal City has to offer: the stairs of the Spanish Steps will be embellished with flowerpots of azaleas as a colourful way to celebrate the arrival of the new season.

Why use Azaleas to celebrate spring? The answer, besides the fact that azaleas are beautiful and are in full flowering during April, is hard to guess. For some, the idea might be somehow connected to the legend of the Roman goddess Proserpine who escaped from her husband Pluto to go back to her mother Ceres, but due to a spell cast on her by her husband she had to spend six months on earth and the other six months in the underworld with him. According to the legend Proserpine, by going back to earth, gave start to spring and summer, while during the six months that she had to spend in the afterlife autumn and winter arrived on earth.

The dates can slightly vary in operation of the flowering of the azaleas, but the office of the tourism will provide all the necessary information.

If you’ll be in Rome in that period don’t miss this opportunity!!! The Spanish Steps are waiting to celebrate with you! Book at the Hotel Des Artistes or Yes Hotel located only a walk away from the Spanish Steps!