Not just sports fans adore staying in the room rentals near the Foro Italico, as the area in which the largest sports complex in Rome lies, is also very close to some of the most important cultural places for the Italian and international art scene.
By simply crossing the Tiber, we find ourselves in the Flaminio district, which houses the Auditorium Parco della Musica, which was built by the famous architect Renzo Piano, the MAXXI, or the National Museum of XXI Century Arts and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, known by the acronym GNAM.
From the '50s and on, the gallery was a meeting point for the most important figures in the world of culture, such as Ennio Morricone and Anna Galiena, who a few years ago declared to a newspaper that "the gallery has its place in the soul and it's between the most beautiful places in Rome. "
The GNAM was also the museum in which some of the most famous and controversial exhibitions of the second half of the 20th century took place, such as Burri's in '59 or Piero Manzoni's in' 71, which remained engraved in the art history books .
The gallery was also important for the history of the culture of the country, as it gave value to artists who were ignored in Italy during the fascist regime, such as Picasso and Mondrian.
Among the approximately 18,500 works featured in the collection there are also famous masterpieces as "The Age of Bronze" by Auguste Rodin, "The Rod" by Giovanni Segantini, "The Three Ages" by Gustav Klimt, "Villa Borghese Park Deer" by Giacomo Balla," The Fall of the Angels "by Gaetano Previati," The Sun "by Joseph Pellizza Volpedo," Reclining Nude "and" Lady of the collarette "by Amedeo Modigliani," Still Life with Clarinet "by Georges Braque and many other important pages in the history of modern and contemporary art.
