The Pelanda Study Hall is opening its doors! This new space for studying, reading and sharing is situated inside the Pelanda at the Mattatoio di Roma in the city’s Testaccio neighbourhood. This is a further piece in the project for the comprehensive renovation of the Mattatoio di Roma, which is due to be transformed into a “City of the Arts” through a process of cultural enhancement devised to breathe new life into the area, with a number of different institutional players involved in creating new facilities devoted to young people, to artistic creativity and to study.
The layout of the new Study Hall – a venue complementing the neighbourhood’s historic library – has been designed and produced by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, which manages the Pelanda on behalf of Roma Capitale.
With its 28 study stations, only a stone’s throw from the Piramide metro station, the new “Aula Studio” study hall is set to become a major social and cultural focal point for residents in Municipi I, VIII and XII and for students from all over Rome, one of the reasons being that it will be open seven days a week, from Monday to Sunday, from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm.
This brings to five the total number of study halls run by Roma Capitale that have opened in the space of a few months. Today’s opening, which comes in the wake of the opening of the Centro Euclide, Palazzo Braschi, Montespaccato and Trionfale study halls, is part of a broader project devised by Rome the Capital City’s Cultural Affairs Department to install a network of study halls in Rome in order to provide the city with new places for the young – and the not so young – to gather and to socialise.
Info
Opening hours: daily from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm.
Entrance: Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4, Rome
Venue: La Pelanda, Galleria delle Bilance
Admission free while places last; reservations are not required
Number of study stations: 28
Number of reading stations: 6
Free WI-FI
Accessible to handicapped visitors