History Channel celebrates the 29th Christmas of Rome with a special programming on 20 and 21 April, starting from Uncovered Roma a docu-series in 4 parts to discover all the hidden secrets. The docu-series in four episodes is directed by Giulia Randazzo and produced by the Special Superintendence Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Rome directed by Daniela Porro.
Uncovered Roma
With the executive production of Daitona, the docu-series, funded by the Fund for the strengthening of the promotion of Italian culture and language abroad – three years 2022-2024, was born from an idea by Alessio De Cristofaro, director of the Central Institute for Economic Enhancement and Promoting Cultural Heritage and premiered at the twentieth edition of the Festival of Cinema in Rome in the FreeStyle Arts section.
The less-known monuments of the Capital are the destination of AllLeStrade, aka Giuseppe Lino, a young content creator accompanied by his dog, Kyria. In the balance between wonder and insecurity, the boy faces the responsibility of telling a city that for millennia has escaped every definition. It is not Rome from postcard to reveal itself to its gaze, but rather spaces crossed every day, often without even noticing them: a pleistocene cemetery of elephants in West Rome, the “fatal places” of the Empire between Sacrofano and Prima Porta (the Arc of Malborghetto and the Villa of Livia), the labyrinths of the Portuense Necropolis and the streets of Esquilino.
To give voice to the many people who live the places, who love them, attend them and animate them, each episode collects its cultural memory, with images coming from audiovisual archives and from neo-realist cinema, by Pietro Germi, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini. And Adriano, a story by Ennio Flaiano, turns into an ideal passage of the witness between one episode and the other.
Uncovered Roma dalla tv alla realtà
The collaboration between HISTORY Channel and the Special Superintendency Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Rome extends beyond the airing with a special activation open to the public, an extraordinary opening of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Jerusalem, which preserves the remains of the imperial palace of the Sessorio, residence of Elena, mother of Constantine.
The complex, which includes structures such as the Circus Variano and decorated environments, testifies to the passage from imperial Rome to the Christian one. The visit, led by archaeologist Simona Morretta, head of the site, will offer a limited number of participants access to a place normally not usable, strengthening the link between television story and territory.
Gli altri appuntamenti
The special programming of 20 and 21 April continues with IL COLOSSEO CON DAN SNOW (at 22.00) in exclusive and first absolute vision, a story of the secrets of the greatest amphitheater of the Roman world, and POMPEI – GLI ULTIMI MISTERI SVELATI (at 23.00), a documentary in two parts that follows the excavations opened in 2022 at the complex of urban villas of the Western Insula.
L’articolo Uncovered Roma, on History Channel la docu-serie in 2 nights for Capital’s birthday proviene da Dituttounpop.it.
