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Several jazz and Latin American out as the supreme club venue and alternating house and
clubs combine live music with for the fun-loving, young, and commercial music.
dancing, eating, and drinking. hip. From June through August,
For South American style music, a number of smaller venues After Hours
Fonclea, or occasion ally one open up on the Tiber too, with
of the various sections at the wining and dining accom- Most Roman clubs stay open
multivenue Planet Roma, all panied by live music as the until 2am or 3am. However,
pay homage to Latin American river surges past just a few feet night owls may find one or two
and world music. For jazz and below. Some of the bigger clubs dance havens that see in the
blues, Big Mama in Trastevere also move farther afield, hitting dawn, especially during the
and Caffè Latino in Testaccio the coast from July through beach-party season. Before
are far and away the best places December – most notably in heading off to bed, you could
to check out on the weekends, Ostia and in Fregene, where join the other diehard clubbers
or on any other day of the week the sophisticated Singita beach for a final drink at one of the
for that matter. club holds a special sunset city’s 24-hour watering holes,
ceremony accompanied by a or else make for one of the
DJ set. Back in town, the rooftop early-morning bakers. Many
Clubbing in Summer
of the 1940s-built Palazzo dei a long night of Roman revels
At the height of the sweltering Congressi in EUR hosts Le ends with a feast on early-
summer, when virtually every- Terraazze Roma, a summer- breakfast cornetti straight from
thing closes down in the capital, only club featuring great views the oven, enjoyed while most
Art Cafè in Villa Borghese stands of the city, an upscale crowd, of the city is still sleeping.
DIRECTORY
The Nag’s Head Gay Scene Centri Sociali Clubbing in
Via IV Novembre 138B. Summer
Map 5 A4. Alibi Angelo Mai
Tel 06-679 4620. Via di Monte Viale delle Terme di Art Cafè
Testaccio 39–44. Caracalla 55A. Viale del Galoppatoio 33
Piper Map 8 D4. Map 9 A2. (Villa Borghese).
Via Tagliamento 9 Tel 06-574 3448. Tel 329 448 1358. Map 5 A1.
(north of the city centre). Tel 06-322 0994.
Tel 06-855 5398. Anfiteatro My Bar Brancaleone Singita
Via San Giovanni in Via Levanna 11
Planet Roma Laterano 12. (in Monte Sacro). Via Slvi Marina.
Via del Commercio 36/8. Map 9 A1. Tel 06-8200 4382. Tel 06-6196 4921.
Map 8 D5. Tel 06-700 4425. Le Terrazze Roma
Tel 06-574 7826. CSOA Ex Snia Viscosa Piazza John F. Kennedy 1.
Coming Out Via Prenestina 173 (east of Tel 339 611 9070.
Radio Café Via San Giovanni city). Tel 06-2780 0816.
Via Principe Umberto 67. in Laterano 8.
Map 6 E5. Forte Prenestino
Tel 06-4436 1110. Map 9 A1. Via F. Delpino
Tel 06-700 9871. Tel 06-2180 7855.
Radio Londra
Via di Monte Gay Village Jazz, Salsa and
Testaccio 67. Phone or check website African Sounds
Map 8 D4. for venue.
Tel 06-575 0044. Tel 393-004 6560. Big Mama
∑ gayvillage.it Vicolo San Francesco a
Salotto 42 Ripa 18. Map 7 C2.
Piazza di Pietra 42. Goa Tel 06-581 2551.
Map 12 E2. See Clubs.
Tel 06-678 5804. Caffè Latino
Hangar Via di Monte
La Saponeria Via in Selci 69. Testaccio 96. Map 8 D4.
Via degli Argonauti 20 Map 5 C5. Tel 06-578 2411.
(to the south of Tel 06-488 1397.
Stazione Ostiense, Fonclea
off Via Ostiense). Planet Roma Via Crescenzio 82A.
Tel 06-574 6999. See Clubs. Map 3 C2.
Tel 06-689 6302.
Shari Vari Qube ∑ fonclea.it
Via de’ Nari 14. Via di Portonaccio 212
Map 12 D3. (east of the city centre). Planet Roma
Tel 06-6880 6936. Tel 06-438 5445. See Clubs.

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