venerdì 30 marzo 2007

Villino delle Fate (Fairy's house)


In Piazza Mincio, center of Coppedé area, there is a beautiful small villa: fairies’ house. This small villa was built by architect Gino Coppedè from 1924 to 1925.The front and perimeter walls have got irregular opens galleries, steps and arches. The subjects of the decorations are geometric ornaments, medieval history, images of cities and flowers. The trees, bush, palms, and rare flowers give a surreal atmosphere .The materials used for the outside are marble, terracotta, glass and laterizio. These materials make mosaics, frame and columns. In fairies’ house there is also a beautiful gate made with wood and iron.
The small villa was recentling restaured by two young architects. Now two cartoons producers live in the fairies’ house.

Parties with Dutch students

Withney, Marit, Nikita, Federica & Nicole

Halloween Party
The 31st of October we had a Halloween party at Valentina’s house in Piazza Vescovio with the Dutch partners. The party started at 8:30 p.m and we bought the food.
We decorated the house with some candles to make a scary atmosphere.
We danced and we had a lot of fun.


Good-bye Party
The 4th of November, the day before their departure, we organized a goodbye party for the days that we spent with the Dutch partners . This time we had the party at the Livia’s Boy Scout headquarters.
The place was more larger and we organized in a different way about the food, in fact everyone brought from own house something to eat or to drink. The music was a meeting’s point for us and the Dutch students, in particular three songs:
“Hey baby” of Dj Oetzi, “Here without you” and “Away from the sun” of three doors down.

martedì 13 marzo 2007

Villa Adriana

Villa Adriana, with an area around 120 square kilometres, is one of the largest villas in Europe near Tivoli, built by the imperator Adrian.
Adrian had a good education by Hellenistic teachers since his young age, instead he was interested in oriental, classic and Greek cultures.
For these reasons he decided to built the villa in classical style with a lot of statues, columns, mosaics and a lot of other things.
The buildings materials are manly marble, terracotta bricks and there are a lot of pools.
Villa Adriana is valuated from UNESCO a human patrimony since 1999.

Resti Villa Adriana (2)