Bus to Lungotevere Maresciallo Cadorna. Admission depends on event. The sports facilities around the Stadio Olimpico football stadium provide a huge festival site during the summer months, with outdoor concerts, cinema, discos, kiddies' play areas, restaurants and bars. It's one of the few venues that manages to get the big international names to play in Rome in summer, although sloppy organization has meant that in the past concerts have been cancelled at the last minute, or gone ahead with only a handful of spectators. You have been warned.
Admission depends on event.
This eclectic performing-arts festival now ranks as one of the top international events of its kind. It's the classical offerings that predominate, but RomaEuropa has hosted the likes of Manu Dibango, Cesaria Evora and gypsy groups from Andalusia and Pakistan. Bus to Piazza dell'Emporio or Via Galvani. Many of Testaccio's clubs move outside for the summer season, to this quiet area behind Rome's former slaughterhouse. Concerts, which begin at 10pm, include international and Italian rock, jazz, Latin and funk.