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Practical Guide To The IP-SPALC
Practical Guide To The IP-SPALC
Practical Guide To The IP-SPALC
SPORT PERFORMANCE
”A LIFESPAN CHALLENGE”
IP-SPALC
STAFF
Dr Emilia Angelillo
International Relations Office
University of Rome “Foro Italico”
Phone number: (0039) 06 36 733 377
e-mail: emilia.angelillo@uniroma4.it
Dr Cristina Cortis
Project Executive Assistant
Phone number: (0039) 06 36 733 376
e-mail: cristina.cortis@uniroma4.it
IP-SPALC VENUE
The IP-SPALC will take place at the University of Rome “Foro Italico” - the City’s 4th
State university - is the only Italian and one of the few European vocational universities
entirely devoted to sport and exercise science. The University is the direct heir of the
Italian Sport Academy, established in 1928, and it is located in the monumental area of
“Foro Italico” in Rome, where are placed some of the City’s most famous sport
structures.
The IP-SPALC course will take place in the main building (ex collegio di Musica, P.zza
Lauro de Bosis, 15) at ground floor
Main Building
WHAT IF I HAVE A PROBLEM?
Group A Group D
Coordinator: Stefania Comotto Coordinator: Flavia Guidotti
Milena Morano Cristiano Nisticò
Francioni Fabio Raffaele Maio
Kevin De Pauw Eduardo Fernandez
Jens Westergren Roberta De Pero
Cristina Papaianni Claudia Crova
Group B Group E
Coordinator: Erika Casolino Coordinator: Giulia De Ioannon
Denis Moretto Flora Iannarilli
Francesco Tornello Andrea Ferragina
Cinzia Benvenuti Magnus Carlsson
Vianciane Fontenelle Tomas Carlsson
Marco Lopes Flaminia Carlucci
Cristina Conde
Group C Group F
Coordinator: Matteo Corvino Coordinator: Giancarlo Condello
Samo Rauter Pamela Pallica
Sara Santos Ilaria Masci
Stefano Amici Juan Castilla
Luca Mampieri Rosario Scarfone
Anastasia Pallicca Federico Quinzi
Jozef Krizaj
2. If your group coordinator cannot help, he/she will ask the Project Executive
Assistant (Cristina Cortis)
4. Your group coordinator and Project Executive Assistant will try to help solve
your problems quickly and easily
WHAT IS THE ATTENDANCE POLICY?
2. There are NO excused absences. All absences are counted: This is an intensive
programme
3. Every student will be asked to fill a day by day questionnaire to rate each speaker
on the content and the delivery of their presentation
4. Professors will be asked to fill a day by day questionnaire to rate each student on
the content and the delivery of their presentation
5. There is no “DROP AND ADD” in the IP-SPALC. When students are in the
program, they should be there for the entire period
CULTURAL/SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Starting from the University of Rome “Foro Italico” we will walk till Piazza Mancini
and catch n°2 bus to Piazza del Popolo.
It is a notable Augustinian church. It stands to the north side of the Piazza del Popolo,
between the ancient Porta Flaminia and the Pincio park. In 1099, a chapel was built by
Pope Paschal II to Our Lady, over a tomb of the Domitia family. Tradition has it that
the site was haunted by Nero’s ghost or
demons in the form of black crows;
therefore the pope chopped down the
walnut tree sheltering the crows and built a
church in its place. The chapel became a
church by will of Pope Gregory IX, and
given to the Augustinians, who still oversee
the church, in the first half of 13th century.
Santa Maria del Popolo was reconstructed
by Baccio Pontelli and Andrea Bregno in
1472-1477, commissioned by the association
of the Lombards of Rome, creating an
excellent example of Italian Renaissance architecture. In 1655-60 the facade was
modified by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was asked by Pope Alexander VII to update
the Renaissance church to a more modern Baroque style. The church contains not
only the Cerasi Chapel canvases of Caravaggio (Crucifixion of St. Peter and Conversion
on the Way to Damascus) and an Assumption of the Virgin by Annibale Carracci, but
also frescoes by Pinturicchio, sculptures by Andrea Bregno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(Habakkuk and the Angel and Daniel and the Lion). The Chigi Chapel, the private
chapel of banker Agostino Chigi, was designed by Raffaello Sanzio. The dome is
decorated with Raphael's mosaics Creation of the World.
Piazza di Spagna
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps climbing
a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti,
dominated by the church of Trinità dei Monti. The Scalinata is the longest and widest
staircase in Europe. In the Piazza at the
base is the Early Baroque fountain called
Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the
Old Boat"), built in 1627-29 and often
credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more
famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is
recently said to have collaborated on the
decoration. The elder Bernini had been the
pope's architect for the Acqua Vergine,
since 1623. According to an unlikely
legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain
installed after he had been impressed by a
boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber
river. The narrow Via Condotti, home to
many of Rome's designer shops, runs up the picture.
Fontana di Trevi
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi), standing 25.9 meters high and 19.8
meters wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city. The fountain at the junction
of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the “modern” Acqua Vergine, the
revivified Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient
Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a
source of pure water some 13 km from the city. However, the eventual indirect route
of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km. This Aqua Virgo led the water into the
Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years. The Roman
custom of building a handsome fountain at the endpoint of an aqueduct that brought
water to Rome was revived in the 15th century, with the Renaissance. In 1453, Pope
Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin,
designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti, to herald the water’s arrival.
In 1629 Pope Urban VIII, finding the earlier fountain insufficiently dramatic, asked
Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sketch possible renovations, but when the Pope died, the
project was abandoned. Bernini’s lasting contribution was to resite the fountain from
the other side of the square to face the Quirinal Palace (so the Pope could look down
and enjoy it). Though Bernini’s project was torn down for Salvi’s fountain, there are
many Bernini touches in the fountain as it was built. Salvi died in 1751, with his work
half-finished, but before he went he made sure a stubborn barber's unsightly sign would
not spoil the ensemble, hiding it behind a sculpted vase, called by Romans the asso di
coppe, the “Ace of Cups”. The Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe
Pannini. A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they
are ensured a return to Rome. (The fountain is the setting for an iconic scene in
Federico Fellini's film La dolce vita starring Marcello Mastroianni. The Trevi fountain
was turned off and draped in black in honor of Mastroianni after the actor’s death in
1996).
Pantheon
The Pantheon is a building in Rome, built by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the
gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD. The
building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns
(eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment opening into
the rotunda, under a coffered, concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the
sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the
world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter
of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres. A rectangular structure links the portico
with the rotunda. It is one of the best preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in
continuous use throughout its history, and
since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been
used as a Roman Catholic Church dedicated to
“St. Mary and the Martyrs” but informally
known as "Santa Maria Rotonda." Also buried
there are two kings of Italy: Vittorio Emanuele
II and Umberto I, as well as Umberto’s
Queen, Margherita. The Pantheon is still used
as a church. Masses are celebrated there,
particularly on important Catholic days of
obligation, and weddings.
Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in first century AD,
and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans came
there to watch the agones (“games”), and hence it was known as “Circus Agonalis”
(competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to “in agone” to
“navone” and eventually to “navona”. Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th
century, the Piazza Navona is now the pride of Baroque Roman architectural and art
history. It features sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the
famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian
Lorenzo Bernini; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini and
Girolamo Rainaldi; and the Pamphilj palace also by Rainaldi and which features the
gallery frescoed by Pietro da Cortona. The Piazza Navona has two additional fountains:
at the southern end is La Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by
Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which in 1673 Bernini added a statue of a Moor, or
African, by Bernini, wrestling with a dolphin, at the northern is the Fountain of
Neptune, Rome (1574) created by Giacomo della Porta. The statue of Neptune in the
northern fountain, the work of Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to make that
fountain more symmetrical with La Fontana del Moro in the south. At the southwest
end of the piazza is the ancient “speaking” statue of Pasquino. Erected in 1501,
Romans could leave lampoons or derogatory social commentary attached to the statue.
(The piazza is featured in Dan Brown’s 2000 thriller Angels and Demons, in which the
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is listed as one of the Altars of Science. During June 2008,
Ron Howard directed several scenes of the film adaptation of Angels and Demons on
the southern section of the Piazza Navona, featuring Tom Hanks.)
After all, we’ll catch n°280 bus that take us to the restaurant for the desired dinner!
February 8th 2010
20:00, Dinner
“Pallotta Antica Trattoria”
P.le Ponte Milvio, 21
00191 Roma
Tel: (0039) 06 33 34 245
13:30-17:30, Lunch and Tour: we will have lunch at the Trattoria Pizzeria
Taverna 31 di Nicolini Adilio, via Vittorio Emanuele 29, Monte Romano,
Viterbo (Tel: (0039) 0766 86 00 36, Mobile: (0039) 329 88 27 730). We will
then visit the city of Monte Romano.
17:30-21:30, Social Event and Dinner: we will catch the bus to Capranica
(Viterbo), where we will have an “Artistic Event” at the Casale della Nocerqua
(www.casaledellanocerqua.it).
20:00, Dinner
“Pallotta Antica Trattoria”
P.le Ponte Milvio, 21
00191 Roma
Tel: (0039) 06 33 34 245
Public Transportation
Bus tickets are on sale in most tobacconists and newspaper kiosks; vending machines
may be found at underground stations (metro). Tickets must be validated immediately
upon boarding the bus or at the railway station before boarding an urban train. Bus and
metro inspectors do random spot checks and the fine for being caught without a
validated ticket is €51,00. The standard ticket (B.I.T.) costs €1,00; it is valid for 75
minutes on all busses and urban trains; it also includes one trip on the metro. The
B.I.G ticket costs €4,00; it is valid for one whole day and includes more than one trip
on the metro. The C.I.S. is a weekly pass for all busses, urban trains and the metro; the
cost is €16,00. All details concerning public transport in Rome are available on the web
site www.atac.roma.it
Consulates
Belgium - Via dei Monti Parioli, 49 – (0039) 06 3609 511
Portugal - Viale Liegi, 21-23 - (0039) 06 8448 01
Slovenia - Via L. Pisano, 10 – (0039) 068081075
Spain - Via di Campo Marzio, 34 - (0039) 06 6865 436
Sweden - Piazza Rio de Janeiro, 3 - (0039) 06 4419 41
Postal Service
Post Offices (Ufficio postale or, simply, Posta) are open Monday through Friday from
8:30am to 2:00pm, Saturdays from 8:30 to 1:00pm. There is a main post office (Ufficio
postale centrale) in each district (Municipio) and these are open also in the afternoon
up to 6:00pm.
Climate
The climate in Rome is generally mild and pleasant. During the IP-SPALC course we
expect mild cold (minimum temperature 0-4°C, maximum temperature 10-12°C).
ACCOMODATION
During the course students and lectures will stay at the Trianon Borgo Pio Residence.
The structure, belonging to the Trianon Group Residence chain, is situated in the old
Rione Borgo Pio in Rome, at the gates of the Vatican. The residence, composed of 45
flats, offers its guests the autonomy to manage their stay freely, without any bonds that
other types of structure tend to impose. The comfortable and central position,
equipped with every necessary service, offers the suggestive experience of staying in the
Roman style of everyday life. Sheltered from the chaos of the city traffic, here one may
enjoy the sounds, the colors and the perfumes of the Roman tradition in the setting of
the oldest part of the Renaissance Borough, Borgo Pio.
Included Services
Air conditioning/heating
Linen supply (towels and sheets) once a week
Shampoo and soap
Hairdryer
Satellite TV
Luggage storage room
Extra payment-services
Internet connection (LAN net) in each flat (€ 2,00 a hour - € 12,00 a day)
2 Internet positions in the hall (€ 2,00 a hour)
Washing machines and dryers (€ 2,50 for each cycle)
Breakfast
Breakfast will be at the “Bar Venerina”, close to the Residence. Here you can find the
typical Italian breakfast with cappuccino and brioche.
feb-21
DEPARTURES
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
STUDENTS
LECTURERS