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Casa del Jazz (Villa Osio)

Theater · Ostiense, Italy

A concert venue in a confiscated villa and its park, run by the Fondazione Musica per Roma; telephone 06 80241281. The auditorium seats about 150 and is named the Sala concerti Armando Trovajoli; the house also holds rehearsal and recording rooms, a guest house for visiting musicians and a restaurant, and Amerigo Bartoli's fresco of a view of Piazza Navona is in the ground-floor former dining room. Villa Osio covers 2,500 square metres in a park of 25,240. The box office opens on performance days from 19:00 until 40 minutes after the start, and tickets are sold through TicketOne.

History

The villa was built between 1936 and 1939 on the ruins of a 17th-century casale for Arturo Osio, co-founder of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, by the engineer Cesare Pascoletti, with the park laid out by Pietro Porcinai. In the 1980s Enrico Nicoletti, of the Banda della Magliana, bought it from the Vicariate and made heavy unauthorised alterations. It was seized on 14 November 1996, definitively confiscated on 20 February 2001, and assigned to the Comune di Roma on 26 September 2001 under law 109/1996; Casa del Jazz opened in April 2005. A stele at the park gate, made with Libera, carries 683 names of victims of the mafia between 1893 and 2005.

Visit

Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, 00154 Roma RM

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