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NEWS FROM ITALY
Visiting this winter? Bring ice skates Artist re-creates Trevi Fountain
DECEMBER 2021 | ITALIANAMERICANHERALD.COM 9
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Winter sports in “sunny Italy” are not limited to the Alps. While snow is an extremely rare occurrence in Rome, Italian weather experts are forecasting a pretty nippy winter, especially considering the wind factor.
Visitors to Rome during the Christmas season won’t find it anything like an Alpine resort, but ice-skating aficionados can find many ice-skating rinks. One of the most visited skating rinks is situated near the Castel Sant’Angelo at Piazza Adriana. It is named Grizing Village. There are a few other outdoor ice-skating rinks, including one conveniently positioned between the Castel Sant’Angelo and the Tiber River.
While visiting, don't forget to explore the Christmas Market with its holiday lights, magic atmosphere, delicious food, sweets and hot wine. Other places with skating rinks are located a bit farther from the center such as “Ice Park” at Piazza Re di Roma and a larger one near “Sottozero” and the Auditorium Parco della Musica. All three are open from the start of December until February.
Despite the famed Mediterranean sun still appearing throughout the Christmas
in miniature with 20,000 Legos
season allowing visitors to enjoy all the city has to offer, a long coat, gloves and a scarf are necessary.
Have fun on the ice and don’t let winter stop you from enjoying a winter visit to Rome.*
*Visitors traveling from outside Italy should inquire about Covid traveling guide- lines before finalizing trip plans.
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ROME – A Sardinian artisan has made a reproduction of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain out of Lego bricks.
The author of the 20,000-brick work is Maurizio Lampis, president of the cultural association Karalisbrick and founder of the Brick Museum Karalisbrick at Sestu in Sardinia.
"The project started five months ago with the aim of reproducing one of Italy's most important monuments after building, in 2019, the Basilica di Bonaria in Cagliari, symbol of Sardinia," Lampis told ANSA.
"It took around 20,000 bricks to faithfully reproduce it in mini-figure scale: 29.5 inches wide, 19.75 inches deep, and 27.5 inches tall at its highest point.
"I used photos taken from the Internet to make it as similar as possible, including the tourists".
Unveiled in 1762, the Trevi is the biggest of Rome's monumental fountains.
It was the backdrop for an iconic scene in
Federico Fellini's “La Dolce Vita,” where Anita Ekberg paddles in it waist-high and beckons Marcello Mastroianni to join her.
In one of Totò's best-known films, the great comic tries to sell it to a tourist.
Legend has it that throwing a coin into the fountain guarantees a return to Rome - as the G20 leaders recently did after their summit in Rome.
Lampis will put the scale model on show in his museum.
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