Conference Dinner

Social program

Thursday, October 15 th, 2026, from 20:00 to 23:00

The Conference Dinner will be organised in a bright and welcoming environment with a splendid view.

The cuisine is typically Italian, with traditional dishes prepared using only local and genuine ingredients. The setting, unique and evocative, will recall a past rich in history.

Price: included in the Standard registration fees.

Extra tickets: € 90,00

Christian Rome and the art of mosaic

Tour

Wednesday, October 14th, 2026, from 10:00 to 13:00

The tour will explore the beautiful medieval mosaics of the churches in the popular Monti district.

Starting with the splendid mosaic of the 4th century in the hidden church of Santa Pudenziana, the tour will then bring its participants to the Patriarchal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a real triumph of Roman and medieval mosaics, which, in addition to one of the four Holy Doors, contains the holy relic of the manger that was the first cradle of Jesus.

Participants will then visit the church of Santa Praxedes, with its furniture and the incredible chapel of Zeno, with glittering Carolingian mosaics from the 9th century. The tour will then end in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, which, according to tradition, hosts the chains that imprisoned the apostle Peter, and where it will be possible to admire the famous Moses by Michelangelo.

Price: € 45,00

The following are alternatives for Wednesday, October 14^th, 2026, from 15:30 to 18:30

Only one of these tours can be selected for each person.

They are all included in the conference fees. Extra tickets cost € 40,00

Palazzo Altemps

Palazzo Altemps is a historic aristocratic mansion in Rome’s Campo Marzio district, near Piazza Navona. Originally built in the 15th century for Girolamo Riario, it was purchased in 1568 by Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps, who expanded and richly decorated it, housing his notable collection of antiquities and rare books.

The palace remained in noble hands until the late 19^th century, when it passed to the Hardouin family and was later sold to the Holy See for use as a seminary. Acquired by the Italian Government beginning in 1982, it underwent extensive restoration and opened as part of the National Roman Museum in 1997. The full restoration was completed in 2006.

Today, Palazzo Altemps is dedicated to the history of art collecting. It displays masterpieces of ancient sculpture from major noble collections—such as the Altemps, Boncompagni Ludovisi, Mattei, and others—alongside Egyptian works, frescoes, and archaeological finds. The museum’s layout integrates sculptures within elaborately decorated rooms, recreating the atmosphere of Renaissance antiquarian collections across two floors of interconnected spaces.

Mercati Traianei

“Trajan’s Markets” is the modern name of an extensive complex of brick buildings, articulated on several levels with architectural solutions of great interest: it was built at the same time as the Forum of Trajan, at the beginning of the second century AD, to occupy and support the cutting of the slopes of the Quirinal Hill.

Due to the continuity of their use over time, the buildings of the “Markets” also have the traces of numerous subsequent interventions, ranging from the Roman age to the great discovering, restoration and integration works of the years 1926-1934.

The lower part, starting from the level of the Forum, includes the Great Hemicycle, on three floors, the two end rooms at the ends and the Small Hemicycle again on three floors.

The upper part is separated from the lower one by a paved road, the Via Biberatica, on top of which the Central Body building rises, with rooms at street level and on the three floors above. Towards the north the street bends and then gets lost under the current Via Quattro Novembre, flanked on top by the Great Hall complex, with the vast central space overlooked by a series of rooms on several levels. Towards the south, the road connected to the current Via della Salita del Grillo, which overlooked a multi-storey block with traces of post-ancient interventions.

Behind the Great Hall and the Central Body there is a second paved path, the Via della Torre and in an area currently arranged as a garden, other Roman structures, on which the medieval Torre delle Milizie (13th century) was built.

Tour Vicus Caprarius

The Vicus Caprarius, called also “The City of Water”, is an archaeological area in the quarter of Trevi.

This spectacular site is a recent excavation of an imperial roman quarter.

The area is situated 8 metres underground, in a suggestive atmosphere, and preserves the look of the activity in the centre of Rome from I till V century A.D.

Its waters are directly linked to the Fontana di Trevi, the most famous and spectacular fountain of Rome, built by the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1629, to order of Pope Urbano VIII.