CULTURA ROMA - Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione - Comune di Roma

It is, in fact the actual seat of this programming sector, the production centre for all scientific, literary and editorial proposals. In this way, the precision of the scientific approach is combined with the availability of making their deductions known to a large part of the City's public.

The institution of the Rome Library provides these permanent services: the library, the newspaper and the periodical library, specialised in Italian and foreign literature of the Nineteenth Century. The office for Conventions - Exhibitions - Conferences avails itself of the co-operation with Italian and foreign institutions, organisations, universities and cultural associations, in the Research and Planning of these projects. This precious network of relationships will be extended further because of the need of an approach to this cultural activity which is both international and inter-disciplinary.

The Casa delle Letterature is the place in the city for literature and literature for the city:

• A privileged place for authors and public.
• An area for getting together for groups and tendencies, associations and institutions.
• A centre of interaction between literature, arts and communications.
• An exhibition place, a structure planned for making literary works known to the public.
• A telematic workshop/archive of documentation, conservation and valorisation of the literary heritage of different types.
• A place for reading or surfing on the net, an oasis you can visit, a cultural area in the centre of Rome.
• A free entrance to an entire literary universe.

In Casa delle Letterature you will find:

Permanent cultural initiatives:

• Exhibitions, also bibliographical and thematic documentaries and documentaries describing the life and works of major authors in Italian and international culture;
• exhibitions of artists, painters, sculptors and photographers - musical and theatrical performances, showing films and other activities that present the "literary" mixed with the other languages of cultural communication;
• conventions, conferences, opportunities to meet and discuss topics, authors, philosophers, thinkers, both Italian and foreign;
• Workshops and seminaries about writing and reading.

Library services:

• Spaces for free reading, both in the inner galleries of the centre and in the Orange Tree garden.
• The library Biblioteca Letteraria della Casa delle Letterature. It has been created with ​​the acquisition of approximately 20000 books of the fund Enzo Siciliano and has been gradually made ​​available to the public for consultation.
• The bookstore Libreria Letteraria. It specializes in fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction published in the first edition starting from 2000.
• The newspaper library Emeroteca Letteraria. It provides Italian and foreign magazines and literary supplements for consultation in the library.

HOW TO ACCESS THE LIBRARY SERVICES:
The library services and the reading rooms of the Casa delle Letterature are available for free and after registration. Please provide a valid ID card and your e-mail (if you have one). For this reason, an online and paper register is available at the entrance of the Casa delle Letterature.

Managing the space and the activities made are developed by the Dipartimento Cultura di Roma Capitale in collaboration with Zètema Progetto Cultura. The Banche Tesoriere di Roma Capitale: BNL BNP Paribas, UniCredit, Monte dei Paschi di Siena participate in the project.