Cinema Dreams or 1½ Day with Fellini

Program

So, here is our script:

• Let's start with Piazza del Popolo, visit Cafe Canova, where Fellini used to drink coffee and read the fresh newspaper in the mornings. The main thing in the world of neorealism is a person, a character. Just sit at a table in any cafe in Rome and observe the crowd, visit a colorful local market, or on Sunday take a walk through the flea market at Porta Portese, and at every step you will meet characters and types as if they have just stepped off the screen.
• Not far away begins Via Margutta. Fellini and his wife and muse Giulietta Masina lived here for many years. Let's walk through the nearby streets, we can visit the restaurant "Il Margutta" (a place the director often visited) or stop for an aperitif at the famous wine bar "Il Buccone" on Via Ripetta.
• Walking along the lively Via del Babuino with its famous talking statue (also in the spirit of Fellini), we will reach Piazza di Spagna - where one of the scenes of Fellini's early film "Swindlers" was played out.
• Next awaits us the Trevi Fountain - who doesn't remember the famous scenes from "La Dolce Vita"? Five minutes - and we are on Via Avignonesi, where in house number 32, in the old theater "Capitani", Rossellini (Fellini was his screenwriter) filmed the manifesto of neorealism - "Rome, Open City".
• Another street became a movie star thanks to Fellini - Via Veneto. Paparazzi no longer run along it in search of celebrities, the rich from all over the world no longer sit in the restaurants, but with a little imagination - we are back in the 60s and the colorful whirlwind of the "sweet life" unfolds before our eyes.
• Now we dive into the metro (the atmosphere of the Roman underground is also worthy of Fellini) and head to "Cinecittà" (the holy of holies of Italian cinema). Here I will show you the pavilions where famous Italian directors worked, Fellini's office and his chair.
• Upon returning, you can have dinner at one of Fellini's favorite restaurants in Rome - "Al Moro", not far from the Trevi Fountain, with typical Roman cuisine.
• The finale of our film together is open: the next day I suggest you take a look at Rome from above, from characteristic roofs and terraces, often adorned with laundry, and then from Termini Station, another "character" of Fellini's films, take a trip to Ostia - the nearest seaside of Rome (the road there and back will take us about an hour), beloved by the director and always reminiscent of his hometown Rimini. Here we will walk along the beaches where many scenes of "The White Sheik" and 8½ were shot. I recommend having lunch at "La Vecchia Pineta" - another favorite restaurant of the director.