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The Luglio Suona Bene festival held out of doors at the Cavea amphitheater, Parco della Musica, comes to a rousing close with three big headliners:

Björk
The Icelandic superstar, on tour with her new album, "Volta."
Friday, July 25, 9 pm more

Leonard Cohen
Back on stage after all these years, the iconic poet-singer-songwriter comes to Rome with a stellar backup band.
Monday, Juy 28 more

Paul Simon
Unless you were born very recently, this Rock Hall of Famer needs no introduction.
Tuesday, July 29 more

La Festa di Noantri
This annual festival, which takes up at least a third of Fellini' s love song to the eternal city, "Roma," is less impressive than it was ten or twenty years ago, but it's still a lot of fun, with the streets of Trastevere filled with booths selling everything from the traditional porchetta to the untraditional South American crafts, and stages throughout the neighborhood where you can hear Roman popular and folk music. The festival began about 1920, when the a festival devoted to the Madonna del Carmelo became the Festa di Noantri, loosely translated, the festival of "We Others," referring to the very special otherness of the people of Trastevere. Legend has it that fishermen pulled a beautiful statue of the Madonna from the Tiber, and brought it to the Chiesa di Sant'Agata in Piazza Sonnino. To commerate that day, on the third Sunday of july the Madonna is paraded from Sant’Agata through the ancient streets of the neighborhood, to the neighboring Chiesa di San Crisogno, where she stays for eight days, before taking a symbolic boat ride along the Tiber and returning home. This year, the statue arrives by boat at Ponte Garibaldi, Sunday, July 27, 7:30 pm.

The Art of Light at Largo Argentina
Enel, the energy compay, has sponsered a series of works in light by contemporary artists. This summer, the collective avaf lighting up Largo Argentina. The site-specific project by the Brazilian group avaf, an acronym for "assume vivid astro focus," aims to highlight the many historical strata of the area through video projections, lighting effects and decorative materials. The Rome installation lights up nightly through September 3.


Roma er tevere... Party on the River
The rows of shops, stages, bars and restaurants that line the banks of the Tiber in Trastevere is open again from 6 pm to well past midnight. This year's features: photo exhibits of the lives of Alberto Sordi and Anna Magnani, food tents displayng the cuisine of Sicily, Calabria and Sardegna. Get there from the steps by the Ponte Garibaldi, the Ponte Sisto, the Ponte Rotto or the Ponte Mazzini.

In the Museums:
The Invention of the Imperial Foum: Demolition and Excavation 1924-1940 at the Capitoline Museum. The Big Bang - Il cosmo visto con gli occhi dell’arte, a group exhibition that explores the cosmos as seen through the eyes of several artists, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti. Seventeenth century portrait and landscape painter Agostino Tassi, at Palazzo Venezia. Quadriennale d’arte, the fifteenth edition of a group show exploring the work of Italian artists, at the Palazzo dell'Espozioni. A retrospective exhibit of the work of influential Italian artist Mario Schifano on the tenth anniversary of his death, at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna. A comprehensive exhibit of the works of the great Renaissance artist Correggio, at the Museo Borghese. A selection of works from the Lambert Collection at the Villa Medici (through July). Quattrocento, Renaissance works created by great Roman artists such as Donatello and Lippi at the Museo del Corso.
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