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Guide to Cinecittà Studio Tour & Film Museum in Rome

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Because I run this film and travel blog, I make an extra effort to research everything film-related in a place I’m planning to visit. And that’s literally the only reason why I found out about the Cinecittà Studio Tour before I went to Rome in May last year! How awful is that?! One of the most historically important and the largest film studio in Europe and I didn’t know it existed. For shame.

Luckily I did my research because Cinecittà Studios is a great place to visit for film fans. It’s easy to travel to from Rome city centre via public transport, there’s a fantastic film museum/exhibition on all the famous films that shot in Cinecittà and there’re daily tours around the film sets, too. If all that sounds like your kind of thing, then continue to check out my guide to the Cinecittà studio tour and film museum! The tour is also referred to as ‘Cinecittà Si Mostra’ which means ‘Cinecittà Shows Off’ because you might see that name instead of the far simpler ‘Studio Tour.’

Cinecittà Studio Tour & Film Museum in Rome

How to get to Cinecittà Studios from Rome by Metro

The Cinecittà Film Studios are based a little further south in Rome than tourists would ordinarily venture but it’s still incredibly easy to visit. Cinecittà has it’s own metro station simply called ‘Cinecittà’ and as soon as you walk out of the underground, the studios are right in front of you on the left. It’s that easy! The station is on the ‘red’ line meaning it’s direct from Rome Termini station . Metro trains depart every three minutes and the journey takes about 20 minutes.

Single metro tickets within Rome cost €1.50 . Travelling to Cinecittà via public transport in Rome really is so simple. I don’t think the studios have a car park but I really wouldn’t drive anyway, travelling by metro is too easy.

Cinecittà might seem like a bit of a ghost town when you arrive. But if you think about it, film studios tend to be in quiet, out of the way locations, don’t they? If you’ve ever visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour then you’ll know it’s a trek from London city centre!

Cinecittà Studio & Film Museum History

Pronounced ‘chinny-cheeta’, the ‘Cinecittà Shows Off’ part of the film studio’s business opened in 2011, but the studio’s history goes much further back.

The Cinecittà Studios were built in 1937 by none other than Fascist dictator Mussolini . The Italian film industry was experiencing a low so he built the studio in reaction to this, and of course to produce propaganda films for his own cause. During WWII, western allies bombed the studios and they were temporarily turned into a displaced persons’ camp.

Il cinema è l’arma più forte/ Cinema is the most powerful weapon  – Cinecittà’s first slogan

The 1950s were a period of rejuvenation for Cinecittà Studios. Tax/money incentives attracted American productions to make films at Cinecittà like  Roman Holiday  (1953) and sword and sandal epics like  Ben-Hur  (1959). This influx of American productions in Rome is named the ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’ era. Revered Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini also made several of his films there, including La Dolce Vita  (1960) .

Nowadays, Cinecittà Studios is still very much in use. Recent films shot at the film studios in include Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002) ,  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou  (2004) and the TV series  The Young Pope (2016) amongst several others. So it’s still a working film studio as well as being open to visitors! Usually, international productions are drawn to Cinecittà by the talented art department.

Cinecittà Film Museum & Exhibition

So, there is a ‘film museum exhibition’ part of the whole Cinecittà Si Mostra experience and a guided tour around the studio/sets which I’ll get into next. I recommend checking out the Cinecittà film museum before your Cinecittà studio tour. You’ll appreciate seeing the studios and sets more after you’ve learnt about the film studio’s history.

The film museum has three different buildings and exhibitions. The first is called ‘Why Cinecittà’ and focuses on the studio’s inception and early history. The Fellini years, really. There are tonnes of fantastic costumes and behind the scenes pictures. The second is called ‘Shooting in Cinecittà’ and this is the most impressive part of the exhibition. Costumes, photos and sets from Roman Holiday, Cleopatra  (1963) and many others are housed in this bit.

And the final part of the Cinecittà exhibition is ‘Cinecittà’s Educational Route’ where you learn more about the ‘behind the scenes’ of filmmaking. The role of the director, scriptwriter, etc. which I imagine was built with school trips in mind because Cinecittà hosts a lot of those. You also get to step inside the submarine built for the film U-571  (2000) at Cinecittà.

It’s a fantastic exhibition and really well thought out! An interesting set-piece from Fellini’s Casanova  (1976) is also out in the open for visitors to see on the grassy area.

Cinecittà Studio Tour (Cinecittà Si Mostra) in English

After you’ve had time to look around Cinecittà’s film museum and exhibitions, you’ll meet either an Italian or English-speaking guide for your Cinecittà studio tour. The tours are scheduled multiple times per day and are included in your ticket price. I wouldn’t visit Cinecittà without going on a tour as it’s the only way to see the studios and sets. No need to book or anything, just wait outside the café at the arranged time for the correct language.

What you visit on the tour depends on what is being filmed during your visit. But it’s very likely that you’ll at least see the sets of Ancient Rome for the HBO series  Rome  (2005-2007), The Temple of Jerusalem built for The Young Messiah  (2016) and several others.

So… A lot of these sets are from shows I don’t watch and films I’ve never even heard about. Don’t get me wrong, the tour guide was fantastic and the sets are just brilliant. I find it stuff like this so fascinating, despite having never watched any of the films/TV shows in real life. But the sets aren’t from super well-known films. So if you’re not a lover of cinema, you may not appreciate the Cinecittà studio tour or exhibitions. But if you do love film, then you just have to visit!

Visitor Information & Tickets

Cinecittà is open to visitors every day except  closed Tuesdays  from 9:30-18:30. However, new visitors cannot enter after 16:30. And unless you’re visiting the film studios with 15 of your closest friends, booking is 100% NOT required . In the nicest way possible, the place was dead when I visited in May/June. I had a decent amount of friendly people show up for my tour, but I just can’t imagine it’s the kind of attraction that gets packed out.

Tickets are €15 for adults, which includes the exhibitions and tour , with other options for concessions. I think the admission price is well worth what’s on offer. When you visit the Cinecittà studios, don’t forget to check the set and studio tour times for your language on the website . I joined the English-speaking tour at 15:15 in the afternoon after leisurely wandering around the exhibitions for approx 90 minutes and that worked out perfectly. The tour portion is also around 60-90 minutes and my guide was fantastic.

There’s also a café and a bookshop on-site, too! I do think most of the books were in Italian but nevermind…

That’s my guide on how to visit the Cinecittà Studio Tour (Cinecittà Si Mostra) and film museum in Rome, Italy! Are you planning a trip to Rome and want to visit Cinecittà? Let me know in the comments below!

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Cinecittà: A Journey To Discover The Cinema In Rome

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Since 2011 the famous Cinecittà Studios in Rome, where several national and international movies have been filmed, have opened to the public with the Cinecittà Shows Off project , a cultural initiative that enhances the historical and architectural heritage of the Cinecittà Studios, allowing visitors to experience in person the exhibition halls with movie costumes, pictures and objects and the permanent sets of great movies and TV shows!  This unique project provides indeed public access to the Roman Dream Factory dividing the touring experience into two distinct phases: the visit to the exhibitions in the historical buildings and the visit to the permanent sets.

THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition is divided into three different parts, offering an interactive approach to the history of the Studios, with a particular focus on the Italian and International cinema productions and trades. The tours to this part of the studios can be arranged independently. Visitors can explore the exhibitions as long as they want on their own, watching videos, reading fun facts, enjoying photographs and interacting with multimedia contents without the support of a guide!

Because Cinecittà (1937-1943) is the first exhibition path that explores the birth of Cinecittà studios from the Thirties to the Second World War: before it became the core of the Italian film industry, Cinecittà Studios was the propaganda playground of Mussolini under the not-so-subtle cinema slogan ” Il cinema è l’arma più forte ” (Cinema is the most powerful weapon). After housing early classics fascist-era films, the studio suffered greatly along with the rest of Europe during WWII, survived bombing by the Allies and was used as a camp for displaced war refugees.

Shooting In Cinecittà (1943-1990) is the second route and it explores the making of the most important national and international productions that have contributed to the history of cinema and to the immortal legend of Cinecittà studios. In the post-war period the cinema flourished once more. Ben Hur , Gangs of New York , and Federico Fellini’s classics La Dolce Vita and Satyricon are some of the great movies that were shot at Cinecittà. The studios were indeed worldwide known for its elaborate sets and the ability to hold thousands of extras for those epic battle scenes moviegoers love! A set has been created to allow visitors immerse in the history of great movies and film genres, hear stories and discover fun facts through a selection of images, videos, interviews and original costumes worn by such movie stars as Liz Taylor, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Burton and many others. The exhibition itinerary ends with an area dedicated to a masterpiece from Sergio Leone with a setting inspired by Once Upon a Time in America, in which scenes from Leone’s cult movies are screened all around.

Backstage – Cinecittà’s Educational Route The third route offers a glimpse into the various cinema trades, with six rooms dedicated to film direction, screenwriting, sound editing, costumes and visual effects. The visit to this part of the exhibition ends with the entrance into the submarine from the movie U-571 directed by Jonathan Mostow, where visitors are totally immersed in a real film set.

THE PERMANENT SETS

Cinecittà studios consists indeed of 19 indoor theatres and many other outdoor sets that are temporarily set up for film and television productions. There are three large permanent sets that can be explored only with the presence of a guide from the Educational Department who will accompany the visitors through the itinerary sharing with them all the secrets and stories of the productions shot there.

• THE SET OF ANCIENT ROME , built for the HBO Rome TV series , is one of the largest sets of Cinecittà and expands over four hectares. The scenography presents the classical ensemble of the main civil and religious buildings of the Roman Forum and is a unique change for the visitors to discover how looked the original buildings of the Republican Rome.
• THE SET OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM was created by Francesco Frigeri, formerly set designer in Mel Gibson’s The Passion, for the film The young Messiah of 2016 directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. In the realization of the Temple the scenographer mixed different styles, influences and architectures: Babylonian, Assyrian and Northern Yemen. The structure is made of fiberglass and has a very realistic effect as the set designer worked with the sculptors on the realism of the materials, on the decorative details and on the sculptural forms, creating stone casts to obtain a verisimilitude.
• THE FLORENCE SET OF THE QUATTROCENTO was initially created for the Italian television series Francesco di 2002 by Michele Soavi starring Raoul Bova. In 2012, part of the set was adapted to recreate the city of Verona for the filming of Romeo and Juliet, a film directed by Carlo Carlei and interpreted by actors such as Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Hailee Steinfeld. In 2015 the set underwent a further change for the movie The young Messiah and a part of the set was transformed into a setting of the time of Jesus.

  What are you waiting for? Immerse yourself in the world of Italian cinema at Cinecittà, Rome’s renowned film studio, and unveil all the secrets of set technology, craftsman, costume design and moviemaking!

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CINECITTÀ SHOWS OFF PROJECT

Via Tuscolana 1055 – 00173 Roma – Italia

Metro A – Stop name: Cinecittà

  Open daily (except Tuesdays), from 9.30 to 18.30. The ticket office closes at 16.30.

For individual visitors and families, no advanced booking is necessary for the guided tours.

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At Cinecittà Studios Lives The History Of Italian Cinema

Cinecittà Studios offers their guests a chance to experience the history of Italian cinema in an amazing lot south of the historic center of Rome, Italy.

The Factory of Dreams

The Cinecittà Studios are a short subway ride from the historical center of Rome ( Centro Storico ) and when you arrive you will be transported to a magical and historical “city” that will bring to life some of the biggest movies and historical events from the 80 year history of the studio.

Cinecittà is a film and television studio on the grandest scale that is actively in use, but you can visit portions of the lots, sound stages, and sets that are open to the public daily, except Tuesday. There are guided tours on the weekend in Italian and English that will bring you around the sound stages and during the week you can enjoy the exhibits on your own.

Director’s Chair

The Brief History Of Cinecittà Studios

Founded by mussolini.

The Cinecittà Studios were founded by Benito Mussolini in 1937 as a way to promote Rome and as a propaganda tool for the Fascist leader. Today, the studio uses the nickname Factory of Dreams ( Fabbrica dei Sogni ), but back then the slogan was “Cinema is the most powerful weapon”. Early films were not as successful as later films, but the goal at first was to create films that promoted the Fascist colonization of Africa and the strength of Italy. 

During World War II, the studios were bombed by the allied forces and later used as a camp for refugees that fled Rome after the bombings and even later it included refugees from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. During our tour of the studio, our guide pointed out signs and other indications from its time as a displaced persons camp.

Cinecittà Studios Create Neorealismo

After the war and after Mussolini’s government was expelled, Italian Neorealism grew in popularity. This film movement showed the grittier side of Rome and Italy with stories that highlighted the struggles of the poor and working class. These were originally filmed on location (i.e. outside of the studios) using nonprofessional actors. Some of the better known films from this genre include: 

Rome, Open City ( Roma città aperta ) by Roberto Rossellini

Shoeshine ( Sciuscià ) by Vittorio de Sica

Bicycle Thieves ( Ladri di biciclette ) by Vittorio de Sica

Fellini’s Love For Cinecittà Studios

Federico Fellini, who apprenticed during the Neorealism period, is considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. After the popularity of the Neorealism style, a more extravagant and fanciful style, lead by Fellini, gained popularity across Italy and the world. His style was so influential that the term Felliniesque was coined. In response to this, Fellini said:

“I’d always dreamed of being an adjective when I grew up. I am flattered by it. I can imagine what the Americans mean when they say Felliniesque: opulent, extravagant, dreamlike, bizarre, neurotic.”

In the Cinecittà studio lot there are numerous indications of the popularity and importance of Fellini. First is the exhibit Felliniana , which they describe as:

“… an immersive dive into a world of Felliniesque imagination and a dreamy and evocative narrative of the friendship between the director and the production designer and their artistic partnership ”. 

The second point of interest is Stage Number 5 , which you will only see on the guided tour. In this soundstage, which is dedicated to Fellini and was the director’s favorite, you will discover where he filmed the majority of his projects.

Cinecittà Studios Today

Fellini Exhibit

The studio continues to be a popular place to create films and TV shows. When we visited the studio, every soundstage was booked, which unfortunately limited our access due to security and privacy issues. In the last thirty years the studio hosted films by international directors like Anthony Minghella, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson and Mel Gibson and it has also been host to the Italian version of Big Brother and Paolo Sorrentino’s series The Young Pope and The New Pope .

What Can You See And Do In Cinecittà Studio Tours?

You have two options for touring the studio, and the first is a self-guided tour. You can stroll around the open grounds (not around the sound stages) and spend time looking at the open exhibits. These include the Presidential Building ( Palazzina Presidenziale ) that will immerse you in the history of great Italian movies and film genres. You can then go Backstage , which shows the various trades, including direction, screenwriting, sound editing, costumes and visual effects. You can move onto the set of an American submarine made for the film U-571 and end up in Felliniana , which is a tribute to the great director.

Academy Award Winning Studio

The second option is to pay for a guided tour, which lasts about 1 hour. In addition to the exhibits mentioned above, you will also go behind the locked gates and walk amongst the sound stages. Cinecittà includes 19 indoor sound stages and a number of outdoor sets that from time to time undergo different setups according to the needs of the ongoing film and TV productions.

When Can You Visit Cinecittà Studios?

Guided tours are available on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays only so that you won’t interfere with any ongoing productions. The self-guided areas are also available Monday through Friday.

How Long Does The Visit To Cinecittà Last?

The guided tours of the studios will last approximately 1 hour, but you will have additional time for some self-guided touring and you can take as much time as you want. There is also a snack bar where you can sit in the shade and enjoy an espresso or a glass of wine, which ever you need.

How To Get To Cinecittà Studios?

There is parking available if you plan on driving to the studio, but the easiest way to get to the studio is on the subway ( Metropolitana ). From whichever stop is closest to you, take Metro A south towards Anagnina . It is the penultimate stop conveniently named Cinecittà. When you exit the station you will be right at the studio.

How Much Does A Tour Of Cinecittà Cost

Exhibition ticket.

General Admission (mon-fri) – €10

Children age 5-12 – €5

People under 26/over 65 – €7

Disabled, their helpers, children under 5 – Free

Family Ticket (2 adults, 2 children) – €30

Exhibition Ticket + Guided Set Tour

General Admission (sat/sun only) – €15

Children age 5-12 – €7

People under 26/over 65 – €13

Family Ticket (2 adults, 2 children) – €40

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Opening Hours and Prices

Cinecittà si Mostra and MIAC (Italian Museum of the Moving Images) are open every day except Tuesday from 10 am to 6 pm.  The Ticket Office closes at 4.30 pm .

For more information contact us at [email protected]

Cinecittà si Mostra includes the exhibitions Shooting in Cinettà, Backstage – An educational route through Cinecittà, Felliniana – Ferretti and the set o f Un Medico in Famiglia.

The set of Ancient Rome is only available in certain periods and it is mandatory to enter with a guide from the Educational Department.

MIAC   – Italian Museum of the Moving Images is located within the studies of Cinecittà.

* The combination ticket  includes entrance to CINECITTA SI MOSTRÀ + MIAC and can be purchased exclusively at the ticket office. * Combined family ticket  valid for 2 adults + 2 children (max 18 y.o.) Additional children: 5€.

** Please note: the family ticket  valid for 2 adults + 2 children (max 18 y.o.) cannot be purchased online nor through TicketOne, but only at the ticket office in Via Tuscolana 1055. Additional children: 5€. This discount cannot be added to other discounts. All Cinebimbicittà activities are included in the entrance ticket.

*** Group guided tour is available for groups of 15 (minimum) people or more (excluding guide). For information and bookings visit the page GROUPS and contact [email protected]   [email protected]

Every Tuesday

24- 25th December

1st January

HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL OPENINGS

Special openings may be subject to variations caused by the COVID-29 emergency. For more information, contact: [email protected]

Epiphany – 6 January

Easter Monday

Liberation Day – 25 April

Labour Day – 1 May

Republic Day – 2 June

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul – 29 June

Feast of the Assumption – 15 August

All Saints’ Day – 1 November

Feast of the Immaculate Conception – 8 December

Saint Stephen’s Day – 26 December

BOOKING AND TICKET PURCHASE

Individual and family visits must be booked by email, contact: [email protected].

Tickets may be purchased: – online at www.ticketone.it (contact: [email protected] if online timeslots are full); – at the Ticket Office if visitor numbers for the day allow.

Tickets purchased online are valid only for the day indicated. The timeslot on the ticket is linked to the first guided tour of the permanent sets available after entrance to Cinecittà Studios (e.g. entrance at 3 pm will correspond to a guided tour at 4.30 pm, before which it is possible to visit the exhibitions independently).

A Family Ticket can’t be purchase at TicketOne sale points or online but only at the ticket office of Cinecittà Studios at Via Tuscolana 1055.

Groups of 15 or more (> 15 pax), employees adhering to Cral and schools may reserve tickets as follows:

• By sending an e-mail to:  [email protected]
• By contacting the Box Eventi Italia  from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Phone number: 06/88816182 [email protected]

SPECIAL DISCOUNTS

ATAC: a discount up to 10% off full ticket prices upon presentation of a metrobus ticket or pass subscription! For further information please  click here

ROMA PASS:   a discount up to 10% off full ticket price upon presentation of the Roma Pass card. For further information please  click here

ACI:  a discount up 10% off full ticket price upon presentation of the “Show Your Card”! card. For further information please  click here

Guided tours of the permanent set of Ancient Rome are available every weekend until April 14th.

Contact [email protected] to book.

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Cinecittà is Italy's foremost film studio, founded in 1937 by Mussolini and used for many iconic Italian and international films. It's possible to take a tour of the studios (Cinecittà Si Mostra, or Cinecittà Shows Off), where you get to visit several impressive sets, including 1500s Florence and ancient Rome, and there are interesting exhibitions, one dedicated to the work of Federico Fellini, and another exploring the studio's history. Of the thousands of films shot here, almost 50 have won Oscars.

Originally intended by Mussolini to turn out propaganda pictures, the studios were used during WWII variously as a refugee camp and hospital, but postwar they went from strength to strength. In the 1950s many major Hollywood films were made here, including Cleopatra, and Rome earned the nickname Hollywood on the Tiber. This was also to become Fellini's stomping ground – he even had a bedroom here – and La Dolce Vita was filmed in Theatre 5, within which the director recreated Via Veneto. Later, spaghetti westerns dominated the schedule. Recently it was used for the HBO series Rome and Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope .

At certain times guided tours of the sets are offered in English; check the website.

Note, movie-themed amusement park Cinecittà World is located 25km southwest of Rome.

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The Italian Museum of Moving Images welcomes you in Cinecittà Studios. Full immersion experiences, interactive installations and great discoveries, offer the opportunity to see Italy’s immense audiovisual heritage with new eyes and relive the stories you love in a new and different way.

Exhibition and displays

The MIAC display route unfolds through themed areas over 12 main rooms spread out in an area of 1,650 sqm. Each room explores a theme, using visual and audio material, accompanied by textual support and an immersive installation designed to accentuate the sense of the theme in the visitor.

A wall of 30+ metres where, with the auxiliary of a surprising animated graffiti, you can read, watch and touch dates and events from the history of the audiovisual sector in Italy, from pre-cinema to today. A clever tool that uses graphics and projections to wrap information in a feast for the eyes.

A waiting area, a foyer, where the signs from famous cinema theatres jostle with familiar sounds and jingles.

The emotion of the imagination

Viewers’ faces and dozens of mirrored fragments are projected onto screens to replicate memorable scenes from Italian films. A demonstration of how films are the mirror where we discover our own emotions: fear, desire, adventure, dreams, hopes...

Actors and actresses

The actors and actresses room celebrates the prime representatives of a film or a show. A mosaic of sequences and close-ups returns them to us: legends and divas, stars for their admirers, prizes, festivals. Elusive icons who were in some cases used as aspirational examples followed by the Italians for their aesthetic or, even more frequently, emotional appeal. Three spectacular frames formed of 100 light bulbs enclose them in one single, bejewelled dressing room.

Cinema and TV have become an essential reference for studying and understanding our history. The screens in this room offer an account that is out of time, a powerful journey through the identity of the Italians - or the difficult struggle to create one.

The audiovisual medium, as is well known, was a key element in the linguistic unification of Italy. However, there are also huge numbers of dramas based on the dialects and regional natures of a country that has been unified but never very united. The room resounds with sounds, words and overlapping dialogues in addition to the selected scenes showing on 3 vast lightboxes. The combination of audio and video restores the stunning richness of our cinema and our language.

Two cement walls, both 2.5 m high, display archive material and films to show representations of power experienced by Italians over time. Unforgettable faces and memorable masterpieces. Power experienced as abuse or with resilient irony. Two names in particular represent this: Gian Maria Volonté and Totò.

Landscape, desire, comedy, produce

The enchantment of the Italian landscape: unmistakeable, abused, immortalized by cameras. The produce and the civilization of that landscape: our nutrition. The images of desire, veiled or explicit. And, then, a key genre in our cinema canon, so important it has a name of its own: la ‘commedia all’italiana’. The four different themes are reproduced on four vast screens, all at the same time. In the midst, a spectacular landscape of the moon, the earth and luminous stele that reacts to the beats of the film clips. A surprising tactile and visual experience, the encouragement to look at things differently.

The soundtrack of our lives. Music for film, musicals – in the country of melodrama and musicarelli – from the first film with sound, La canzone dell’amore (1930), to the brilliant Italian composers: Morricone, Rota, Trovajoli, Piovani… Luminous sheet music lights up with the tempo and tone of this irresistible sound montage.

The masters

The names that take Italian cinema into the world: seen in action, backstage, during breaks and at memorable awards ceremonies. Alongside, are the other Masters - the professionals and craftspeople, the pillars of the industry who contribute their skill and brilliance to building the personal visions of creative minds. An architectural element of shining lights and metal mesh designs pillars and skyscapes in light.

Kaleidoscope

An entirely mirrored room offering no dimensional reference points, where luminous trails dialogue with a video column in the centre. A box of mirrors that creates infinite reflections. The future is how we see it.

Opening hours and tickets

General admission - museum, free admission, combined admission.

• - Online booking and ticket purchase;
• - Management of visitor entrance and exit flow, restricting the number of visitors per time slot;
• - “One-way” routes through the exhibition displays with museum staff to manage visitor numbers;
• - Face masks required for visitors and Museum staff;
• - Temperature screening and medical station;
• - Daily disinfection of all closed areas inside the exhibition, bookshop and Cinecittà Caffe;
• - Plexiglass dividers and distancing signage at the Ticket Office and bookshop counters;
• - Installation of hand sanitizer dispensers

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Information for all visitors: starting from March 6, 2023 the Italian Museum of Moving Images (MIAC) will be closed due to rearrangement.

Visit the Cinecitta Studios in Rome, Italy

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Cinecitta Studios is a special place for every movie fan. The birthplace of Italian cinema and the place where worked great filmmakers.

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From the eighth hill of Rome you will see breathtaking view of the Tiber, St. Peter's Basilica and all the Eternal City.

The City Day in Rome is celebrated on April 21. The sequence of festival events last for three days and fascinates with its colors and measure.

Come to any restaurant in Rome and you are offered dozens of antipasto - you need only to choose!

Roman seagulls are legendary birds, they are proudspirited, impudent and totally not afraid of anything - especially to take food from the hands.

On the terrace of the Palazzo Caffarelli, you can take a cup of coffee and admire the views.

Kono-pizza is an unusual variant of traditional pizza and one of the favorite dishes of many gourmets of the world.

At noon, through the hole in the dome of the Pantheon appears a giant ray of sunshine, and it seems so tangible, as if you can touch it.

Let ancient god decide your fate - put your hand in the mouth of the stone deity and check yourself in the medieval "lie detector"!

Go down to Temple of Mithras into the basement of the ancient basilica and knelt before the deity consent and sunlight :)

Sweet delicacy named zeppole - is an Italian donut field with a dilicious pasty cream and fried in boiling oil.

Take a delicious Italian meal, a bottle of wine and have a rest under the shade of the trees, enjoying the peace and quiet.

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‘Those About To Die’, the tv series starring Anthony Hopkins shot at Cinecittà

The teaser trailer for the long-awaited series directed by Ronald Emmerich shot at Cinecittà, in which the Ancient Rome set is already recognizable amongst the first released images.

‘The Outpost,’ a Hot Docs Selection

Edoardo Morabito’s documentary flies to Toronto to participate in the most important documentary festival in North America (and the world), in the prestigious section ‘The Changing Face of Europe.’

Film Distribution Fund: 2023 Second Session Contribution Recipients

The ranking of the works admitted to the 2023 second call contribution and those not admitted due to lack of the requirements set out in the 2023 guidelines relating to the Film Distribution Fund notice has been published.

Cinecittà S.p.A. approves the 2023 annual report with a net profit of €1.3ml

The Board of Directors of Cinecittà S.p.A. has examined and unanimously approved the 2023 annual report, which shows a yearly net profit of 1.3 million euros and a positive result prior to taxation of 1.8 million euros . The Company is again profitable for the second consecutive year , also achieving net equity consolidation and an increase of the initial share capital.

Cinecittà once again at the heart of talent

Cinecittà has once again become fully competitive and appealing for domestic and international production companies.