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site. Quite frankly there are better ways to pass your time, but if your kids are driving you
bonkers, it's a thought.
MUSEO CARLO BILOTTI
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ART GALLERY
( 06 06 08; www.museocarlobilotti.it ; Viale Fiorello La Guardia; adult/reduced €8/7; 10am-4pm Tue-Fri Oct-
May, 1-7pm Tue-Fri Jun-Sep, 10am-7pm Sat & Sun year-round; Porta Pinciana) The art collection of bil-
lionaire cosmetics magnate Carlo Bilotti is stylishly housed in the Orangery of Villa
Borghese. It's a small collection, but it's interesting and well presented with explanatory
panels in English and Italian. Paintings range from a Warhol portrait of Bilotti's wife and
daughter to 18 works by Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), one of Italy's most important
20th-century artists.
GALLERIA NAZIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA
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ART GALLERY
( 06 3229 8221; www.gnam.beniculturali.it ; Viale delle Belle Arti 131, disabled entrance Via Gramsci 71; adult/re-
duced €8/4, plus possible exhibition supplement; 8.30am-7.30pm Tue-Sun; Piazza Thorvaldsen) Housed in
a vast belle époque palace, this oft-overlooked gallery of modern and contemporary art is
definitely worth a visit. Its collection runs the gamut from neoclassical romantic sculpture
to abstract expressionism with works by many of the most important exponents of 19th-
and 20th-century art.
There are canvases by the macchiaioli (the Italian Impressionists) and futurists Boc-
cioni and Balla, as well as several impressive sculptures by Canova and major works by
Modigliani and De Chirico. International artists are also represented, with works by De-
gas, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Klimt, Mondrian, Pollock and Henry Moore.
AVOID MONDAYS
Monday is not a good day to explore Villa Borghese. Sure, you can walk the park, but all of the museums and gal-
leries are shut - they open Tuesday through to Sunday.
Flaminio
AUDITORIUM PARCO DELLA MUSICA
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