What to do on January 1, 2023 in Rome
After a New Year’s Eve of parties in the square, events in parks and clubs, dinners from all prices in the restaurants of the capital, January 1 is also a special day to experience in Rome. Many appointments to celebrate the entry of 2023 in the name of culture, music and celebration.
New Year’s Eve 2023, all the events scheduled in Rome
The famous New Year’s Parade is back, which will animate the main streets of the historic centre, visits, concerts and special events are scheduled in the Civic Museums. There is no shortage of appointments at the theatre, cinema and enchanted parks.
Let’s find out which are the events not to be missed on Sunday 1 January in Rome:
Rome 2023 parade
On Sunday, starting at 3.30 pm, the famous New Year’s musical parade in the capital returns. A musical snake will wind its way through the streets of the centre, starting and returning to piazza del Popolo, and touching via del Corso, via Condotti, piazza di Spagna and via del Babuino. From the United States will come the Newark Charter High School Marching Band of Newark (Delaware), the St. Paul’s Episcopal School Marching Saints + Saints mascot of Mobile (Alabama) and many others. From Italy the Folk Group ‘La Frustica’ of Faleria and the Vejanese Philharmonic Association, both from the Viterbo area, the Vigoneisa Folklore Band of Vigone, Piedmont, the Fiano Romano Music Band Association, Giacomo Puccini Music Band of Città di Cave. There will also be the Roman Historical Reenactment Associations, the Historical Group and the City of Castiglion Fiorentino Flag Wavers, the street artists Artefatti Stilts and the Majorettes of Casperia and many other artists to enliven January 1 in the center of the capital. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Capodarte 2023
On Sunday 1 January, starting in the morning, the free Capodarte initiatives will kick off throughout the city: concerts, guided tours, shows and activities for adults and children that will animate museums, municipal libraries, theaters, cinemas and other places until the evening of culture extraordinarily open for the occasion.
The program of musical events will be extensive to animate various places of widespread culture in the capital which will be accessible for free. The Museums of Rome Capital and the main archaeological areas (Circo Massimo, Villa di Massenzio, Fori Imperiali) will be open according to their usual timetable and free for the whole day. Current exhibitions will also be free. Some of the museums in the system will host concerts and meetings with personalities from the world of art and culture, while specific guided tours are scheduled in others. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Free state museums
On January 1, the appointment with #domenicalmuseo is renewed, the initiative of the Ministry of Culture which allows free admission, every first Sunday of the month, to state museums and archaeological parks. To spend the first day of the year in Italian museums. The visits will take place during the usual opening hours of the places of culture, with access by reservation where provided. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Caracalla, Pharmacy, Malborghetto and Villa di Livia
Immerse yourself in the dreamy atmosphere of the Arco di Malborghetto, stroll among the remains of the Villa di Livia, discover the new museum space of the Drugstore Museum in Via Portuense or let yourself be surprised by the majesty of the Baths of Caracalla. These are the opportunities that the Special Superintendence of Rome will offer on the first day of 2023 to all those who choose to start the new year under the banner of culture. The four archaeological sites will be extraordinarily open on January 1, in different quadrants of the city. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Real Bodies Leonardo’s Anatomy Exhibition
“Real Bodies Leonardo’s Anatomy Exhibition” is the exhibition-homage to the genius and his immense intellectual curiosity, which opened in Rome on 26 December. Visiting it you can admire the works that reproduce the anatomical studies that Leonardo da Vinci carried out on the basis of his personal experience in the field of autopsy practices: thus The famous Vitruvian Man and an incredible Embryological Study take shape revealing the very high level of anatomical knowledge and the extreme precision in drawing that Leonardo achieved. Walking through the sections of the exhibition, the viewer will be able to get to know and get to the heart of the studies that the great Florentine genius carried out and which were the backbone of his scientific and artistic production. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
“Best Days” at the cinema
The Best Days, directed by Massimiliano Bruno and Edoardo Leo, is an ensemble film divided into four episodes, each dedicated to a holiday, and which investigates how the human soul deals with these holidays. Out at the cinema from 1 January 2023, it features some of the most beloved actors in cinema: Max Tortora, Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo, Anna Foglietta, Stefano Fresi and Valentina Lodovini. “Everyone is sweeter at Christmas? Many good intentions for New Year’s? Valentine’s Day love love love and long live women on March 8?” These are the questions that give life to the four moments of the film. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Enchantment of Lights at the Botanical Garden
Last days of “Incanto di Luci”, the light show at the Botanical Garden of Rome. An enchanted world, framed by the Eternal City, simultaneously with 18 other foreign locations, such as Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden and Windsor. “Incanto di Luci” is a sensory art exhibition that aims to recreate an enchanted microcosm in the capital. The artistic works of the famous light designer Andreas Boehlke are the protagonists, made suggestive by the melodies of the composer and sound designer Burkhard Fincke: with their interventions and the support of talented landscapers, the two have created a magical path that extends for a kilometer and a half, immersed in the most splendid nature. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Circus Millennium in Rome
Also on January 1st it will be possible to attend the acrobatics of the Circus Millenium arrived in Rome, at the Capannelle Hippodrome. A show that arrives in Rome for the first time, which does not see the use of animals, but only the skill and physical strength of important artists. The Millennium Circus promises to keep spectators in suspense and glued to their seats for more than two hours of show. Men flying over the heads of the audience, pushing themselves to the limit of the impossible, daring acrobats and tightrope walkers, Jhon Takamura’s ‘wheel of death’ are just some of the attractions of this new show called “Italian Emotions”. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Gatti, the Musical at the Sistine Chapel
“Cats”. The Musical par excellence has arrived at the Sistina Theater and will also be staged on the first day of the year. The title that has the history of this kind of show, with music by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and changed lyrics by Nobel Prize winner TS Eliot, will be set for the first time in the world in Rome, in a hypothetical and futuristic “dump” of works by art, of archaeological finds, with the Colosseum in the background. Protagonist Malika Ayane in the role of Grizabella, together with a large cast of artists and the live Orchestra conducted by Maestro Emanuele Friello. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
The exhibition of 100 nativity scenes
January 1st can also be an opportunity to visit the exhibition of 100 nativity scenes. The fifth edition was inaugurated last 8 December and will remain open until 8 January 2023. The international exhibition of crib art, promoted by the Section for the fundamental questions of Evangelization in the world of the Dicastery for Evangelization is located under the left colonnade of St. Peter’s Square and will be open to all, with free admission and without reservation, every day from 10 to 19 (continuous opening hours). Any reductions in visiting hours will be promptly communicated on the website and on social networks. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]