Nuovo Cinema Palazzo

Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo


Students, artists and activists are breathing new life into San Lorenzo's former Palace Cinema with a bevy of exciting creative happenings: think film screenings, theatre performances, DJs, concerts, live music, breakdance classes and other arty events. In warm weather, the action spills outside onto the street terrace. Check the Facebook page for event details.


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Nearby Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo attractions

1. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere

0.04 MILES

A former pasta factory that hung up its spaghetti racks in 1960 after 55 years of business, this is now a contemporary art hub, with regular shows in the…

2. Cimitero di Campo Verano

0.26 MILES

The city’s largest cemetery dates from the Napoleonic occupation of Rome (1804–14), when an edict ordered that the city’s dead must be buried outside...

3. Basilica di San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura

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One of Rome’s four patriarchal basilicas, San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura (St Lawrence Outside the Walls) has an unusually restrained interior. It was the only…

4. Porta Maggiore

0.51 MILES

Porta Maggiore was built by order of the Emperor Claudius in AD 52. Then, as now, it was a major road junction under which passed the two main southbound…

5. Trofei di Mario

0.68 MILES

These ruins are the remains of a monumentally grandiose fountain built by emperor Alexander Severus to mark the end of an aqueduct. This principle of a…

6. Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti

0.7 MILES

This little-known museum behind the church of Santa Croce stands on the site of the former home of St Helena. It’s undeservedly but refreshingly deserted,…

7. Chiesa di Sant’Eusebio

0.7 MILES

This small church, set back off the square, is popular with pet owners who bring their animals to be blessed on St Anthony’s feast day (17 January).

8. Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II

0.71 MILES

Laid out in the late 19th century as the centrepiece of an upmarket residential district, Rome’s largest square is an ill-kempt grassy expanse, surrounded…