Main Event Palazzo Brancaccio
(Thursday, Saturday and Sunday)
Since 1922
The palace was financed by the American Mary Elizabeth Bradhurst Field, a wealthy lady of New York high society, whose daughter, also named Elizabeth, married Prince Salvatore Brancaccio bringing him a dowry of one million dollars, equivalent to approximately twenty-two million dollars today. Mary Elizabeth had purchased in 1879 from the municipality of Rome the church, convent, orchard and garden of Santa Maria della Purificazione ai Monti, assets confiscated by the municipal state following the subversion of the ecclesiastical axis . The property was located at the end of the Oppian Hill , on the site of the Baths of Trajan ; it included a large park that grew on the ruins of the Baths, including a tower, called Maecenas, from which Suetonius claimed that Nero had witnessed the great fire of Rome in 64 AD. The park was then largely expropriated in 1935-36 to be used as an archaeological park. The project was entrusted to Gaetano Koch from 1879 to 1883, but the size of the residence soon proved insufficient for the Field and Brancaccio families. Luca Carimini was charged from 1886 to 1890 with continuing the construction on Via Merulana in the direction of San Giovanni in Laterano and with harmonizing the new building with the previous palace. The architects Rodolfo Buti and Giuseppe Sacconi intervened to complete the work from 1893 to 1922. At the lower corner of the block, on land owned by Brancaccio, the Teatro Morgana (later Teatro Brancaccio ) was built in 1916 based on a design by the engineer Giuseppe Sacconi .
Grand Hotel Plaza
(Friday Venue)
Since 1860
Retrieve memories and relive past lives, surrounded by the intense sensations that only the Eternal City can offer. The hotel merges the Spanish Steps behind it with the vast plain of Campo Marzio, providing a seamless dialogue with the historical heart of Rome.
The Grand Hotel Plaza has always been a natural film set, a landmark location that has hosted some of the biggest international film productions. A number of films have been filmed in its premises, and its elegant and timeless architecture provided the perfect setting for some fascinating stories. The interior of the hotel was chosen for films such as Ocean’s 12, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. The film Along Came Polly, with Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller, used the Plaza as a location, as well as the sequel to John Wick, with Keanu Reeves. Read more about the hotel history in Cinema here.
Both venues are in a walking distance of each other
