Rome honours the victims of 9/11

The Eternal City honoured the victims of 9/11 during the 25th anniversary of that tragic event.

The sombre occasion took place directly in front of Rome’s Circus Maximus and the U.N.’s FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). 

 

Officials of both the U.S. Embassy in Rome and City Hall were om hand to lay a wreath at the 9/11 memorial (it consists of two long stone columns).  The dignitaries were also joined by members of Italy’s fire brigade as a sign of respect for fallen comrades in both New York and Washington, DC.

The Wassily Kandinsky art exhibit is now on at Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte, September 15th, 2026

The Wassily (or Vassily in Italian) Kandinsky art exhibit is currently on at Rome’s central Palazzo Bonaparte (Napoleon’s mother once lived there).

Kandinsky was a Russian painter and theorist who was born in Moscow in 1866.   He was a pioneer of abstract art and had co-founded the Munich-based Blaue Reiter group of artists in 1911.  He died in 1944 in Paris.  

 
The Rome exhibit has up to 70 works of art by the artist with many paintings from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

 
The exhibit runs until February 14^th, 2027.