Context, organizer of critically acclaimed walking tours, expands its Rome program with a new walk on the city’s film history, Director’s Cut: A Journey through Italian Cinema.
 
The tour will allow visitors to experience Rome through the eyes of Italy’s most influential and skilled film directors from the 1940s and Neorealism, through the swinging sixties, and up to the present day. The group will come to understand the city and its various guises as hedonistic capital, political battleground and religious center.

“In Italy, culture, politics and aesthetics have always been deeply intertwined” says Context docent Elisabetta Lodoli, “Italian Cinema has played a key role in Italian and worldwide history of this visual art”.

The route will trace key locations that have featured in some of the most famous and influential films made in Rome including Via Veneto, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, and St Peter’s Square. During the walk, the group will experience Rome as a source of inspiration for filmmakers and will leave with a greater understanding of the interplay between art, film, and the city.

This new walk compliments many of our tours in Rome as the group visits some of the city’s most iconic locations, not only in terms of cinema, but art and architecture as well.

Director’s Cut: A Journey through Italian Cinema lasts three hours and is available daily. Group walks cost €75 per person. Private tours cost €330 per party. As with all Context walking seminars, groups are led by a credentialed expert and limited to six (6) people maximum.