{"id":3006,"date":"2014-05-28T06:36:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2018-05-31T19:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T17:37:33","slug":"the-great-beauty-tour-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/the-great-beauty-tour-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Beauty Tour of Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"
The opening scene of Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s Academy Award-winning film, La Grande Bellezza,<\/em> lets us know exactly what we\u2019re in for: a collective attack of Stendhal syndrome.\u00a0 A tourist beholds Rome from above, is overcome by its great beauty, and then promptly dies on the spot.\u00a0 This might sound like Italian-style operatic melodrama to some, but don\u2019t be too sure.\u00a0 In this American\u2019s mind, it\u2019s entirely possible. This city has caused my heart to skip a beat more than once over the years.<\/p>\n Looking to recreate the same emotion, if not the final death blow, I joined our host for the weekend, Baglioni Regina Hotel<\/a>, for their \u201cLa Grande Bellezza Experience,<\/a>\u201d The Great Beauty Tour of Rome. We were treated like high-society VIPs for a day, escorted around to the various filming locations by two guides and a professional driver.\u00a0 Just to make sure that we\u2019d be able to connect the sites of the tour with the scenes of the movie, they sent a copy of the DVD to our rooms the night before, so I was able to watch it for a second time and refresh my memory.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n