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“L’Arte nell’uovo di Pasqua” — “Art in Easter Eggs” — is an art exhibition based on the theme of Easter Egg.

A number of International artists, architects and designers inspired by the idea of the egg as a symbol of birth and hope will be displaying their creations at Rome’s White Gallery.

Where: White Gallery - Rome, Piazza G. Marconi, 18/19 - Roma Eur
When: March 24, 2010 (annual)
(Opening Hours: Tue-Sun 10am-8pm; Mon 3pm-8pm)

Details of “Art in Easter Eggs” are available at http://lartenelluovodipasqua.com/ .

The 2010 edition of Rome’s Marathon — Maratona di Roma — is taking place on Sunday, March 21. 
It is not only a day for athletes running the 42.5 km marathon.

The Maratona di Roma also features the non-competitive 4 km race, the RomaFun - “La Stracittadina”.

More than a race, it is a leisurely walk to which anyone can participate. Classmates, grandparents and grandchildren, parents and children, together with their favorite domestic animal, on skates…

You can register at the Marathon Village until the day before the race: € 7,00 included official t-shirt. Also, if you wear your bib you get free transport on buses, trams and metro.
Details are available at
http://www.maratonadiroma.it/en/15/info_roma_fun_la_stracittadina.aspx.

Pitti Immagine is sponsoring the fifth edition of “Taste“, the Florence’s fair dedicated to excellence in Italian food as well as the biological diversities of foods in the global age.

Taste has become a regular salon of Italian taste, a meeting place for all the top Italian and international members of the high end gastronomic trade as well as a lively attraction for the increasingly demanding audience of quality food enthusiasts.

With “Taste Tour” visitors have a chance to sample the products proposed by the companies exhibiting at Taste, where it is possible to learn more about the gastronomic treasures of Italy: from cream of black truffle soup to Parmesan cheese chocolates, from Prunilli tomato “passata” to alfalfa honey, from handmade dry egg pasta drawn through bronze dies to medieval oven-baked Prosciutto, matured buffalo milk cheese, balsamic vinegar preserve and Taggiasche olive jam…

When: Mar 13 through 15, 2010 (annual - Mid March week-end)
Where: Florence (at Stazione Leopolda)
Details of “Taste” are available at http://www.pittimmagine.com/en/fiere/taste/.

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio’s death, Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale is hosting an exhibition including many of the great artist’s most representative works.

Among the great pieces are being displayed: the Bacchus from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, the David With the Head of Goliath from the Borghese Gallery in Rome, the Musicians from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Lute Player from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Amor Vincit Omnia from the Staatliche Museum in Berlin, and many more masterpieces from the major museums in Italy, as well as around the world. 

The Caravaggio’s exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale runs from Feb 20 through Jun 13, 2010. It is set to offer the public a new and stimulating opportunity to penetrate the very essence of the “terribly natural” painter, his revolutionary and astonishing naturalistic criterion, and his stubborn if questioning deference to the depiction of reality which no pattern or school could contain, which was solitary in its poetic greatness.
Exhibition program: daily 10am-10pm (10.30pm Friday and Saturday)

When: Feb 20 - Jun 13, 2010
Where: Rome (Venue: Scuderie del Quirinale)
Find out details of the exhibition on Scuderie del Quirinale website.

The annual chocolate festival of Turin, “CioccolaTÒ“, will be held from February 22 until March 3, 2010.

Chocolate tasting as well as a number of cultural events and initiatives based on the theme of cocoa are to take place in the historic piazza Vittorio Veneto.
The Turin’s historic cafes host many of the events scheduled at CioccolaTÒ.

when: from Feb. 22 to Mar. 3, 2010 (annual)
where: Turin