Rome · 1965 to 1998 · un bar sulla città
Day 1 at the table
Monte Mario · 1985
To write La vita è adesso he went up to the observatory on Monte Mario every day for two and a half months and sat at a bar table, with the city in front of him.
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Every day he climbs to the observatory on Monte Mario and takes a bar table with Rome laid out below.
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Viale del Parco Mellini, Monte Mario, Rome
The album was to have been called Un bar sulla città: a bar above the city.
At 139 metres it is the highest hill of the Farnesina group; the Rome meridian passes the observatory in Villa Mellini.
A nature reserve open from dawn to dusk; the observatory in Villa Mellini is at the top, and a belvedere looks over the city to St Peter’s.
Before the table
12 of the 13 places are in Rome. These four run from a number in Monte Sacro to a basement on Via Tagliamento.
1951
Monte Sacro, north-east Rome: a private home
Baglioni was born in Rome on 16 May 1951.
Avvenire describes him as raised in working-class Rome, from number 51 in Monte Sacro, “where it all began”.
A private home. Named here, never mapped; the photograph shows Piazza Sempione, the square at the heart of the quarter, not the house.
1965
Centocelle, east Rome: the pin is Piazza dei Mirti
In 1965 he entered a contest for new voices in his own quarter, Centocelle.
Rockit says that as an artist he was born in a square in Centocelle, and in singing contests lost deep in Lazio.
A year later came his first paid performance, in a variety theatre on the city’s edge, for 1,000 lire.
Avvenire dates the journey from Centocelle to when he was thirteen.
A residential quarter in the east of the city, with trams through its streets. The pin sits on Piazza dei Mirti, in the middle of the quarter.
Before 1972
53 Via Antonio Gramsci, Pinciano, Rome
He passed 15 exams in architecture before leaving to make music; when music was not working he went back to his studies for a while.
Years later he was invited to Valle Giulia to give a lecture. At the end the rector asked why he had never graduated.
He graduated in architecture from Sapienza on 24 June 2004, with 108 marks and a thesis on restoring the Gasometro of Rome.
A working Sapienza faculty. See the building and its steps from Via Antonio Gramsci; the halls are for students.
1972
9 Via Tagliamento, Trieste, Rome
The Piper opened at 9 Via Tagliamento on 17 February 1965. Pink Floyd played it in April 1968, Genesis in the 1970s.
In 1996 Baglioni brought a new version of Questo piccolo grande amore to a Piper Club special, the place where the 1972 version had made its debut almost thirty years before.
On 18 January 2026 police placed the club under preventive seizure, citing structural changes, evacuation risks and missing certificates.
A nightclub in a basement on Via Tagliamento. Police sealed it in January 2026 in a national safety check; see whether it has reopened before you go.
Questo piccolo grande amore · September 1972
A love story in fifteen tracks. It opens on Piazza del Popolo and reaches Porta Portese, 3.6 km away across the centre. Choose a track.
Track 01
Campo Marzio, central Rome
Piazza del Popolo is the first track on Questo piccolo grande amore, released by RCA Italiana in September 1972.
Rockit calls the album one of the first concept albums in Italian pop: a love story, complicated by the arrival of Cartolina rosa, the pink card of track ten.
The Flaminio obelisk, about 24 metres tall, stands in the middle; the twin churches on the south side were built in the 1600s.
An open square inside the old northern gate, free at any hour; Flaminio metro is just outside the gate.
Campo Marzio, Rome
A hotel open since 1925 at 22 Via della Penna, a street off Piazza del Popolo, the square that opens the 1972 album. Bar Locarno and a roof terrace serve all day.
See roomsGira che ti rigira amore bello · 1973
His fourth album, in 1973, was a road story: a musical journey in a yellow and black Citroën 2CV everyone called Camilla. The same year he made his first tour of Italy.
Roof closed.
1982 to 2026
One oval, five nights. Watch where the stage stands: at the end of the field, then in the middle, then right across the Olimpico.
150,000 on the oval in Villa Borghese
Piazza di Siena · 1982: the stage stands at the end of the field.
1982
Villa Borghese, Rome
His 1982 Alé-oo tour, a million people in all, had two special concerts: one on a floating platform at the Venice Arsenale, and one here, for 150,000.
A grass oval in Villa Borghese, open with the park. It holds Rome’s international horse show, and Baglioni again on 24 and 25 October 2026.
Indoors, 1991
1 Piazzale dello Sport, EUR, Rome
In 1991 he sang here at Insieme contro la droga before 15,000 young people, and came back in May 1992 for 15,000 school pupils.
Marcello Piacentini and Pier Luigi Nervi designed it for the 1960 Olympics, under a dome 95 metres across.
A working arena for sport, concerts and conferences; the inside is open on event days.
Piazza Beniamino Gigli, Rome
In 1991 he sang Tamburi lontani here with the band of the Carabinieri.
On 7 June 1999 he came back for an acoustic charity concert, Loro sono là, for the children of the Balkans.
Tours show the changes since the theatre opened in 1880.
Guided tours of the foyer, stalls, royal box and museum hall run Tuesday to Sunday, in Italian and English, booked through TicketOne.
Piazza Beniamino Gigli, Rome
Foyer, stalls, royal box, gallery and museum hall, Tuesday to Sunday in Italian and English, through 31 December 2026. Tickets through TicketOne.
See tour timesThe last tour starts where 150,000 stood in 1982.
12 places you can visit in Rome and Sanremo. The house at number 51 in Monte Sacro is a private home: named, never mapped.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A nightclub in a basement on Via Tagliamento. Police sealed it in January 2026 in a national safety check; see whether it has reopened before you go.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working Sapienza faculty. See the building and its steps from Via Antonio Gramsci; the halls are for students.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A nature reserve open from dawn to dusk; the observatory in Villa Mellini is at the top, and a belvedere looks over the city to St Peter’s.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A grass oval in Villa Borghese, open with the park. It holds Rome’s international horse show, and Baglioni again on 24 and 25 October 2026.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Closed and empty. See the Nervi stands from Viale Tiziano and Via dello Stadio Flaminio.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Stadium tours run every day from 10am to 6pm except on match days; the ticket office is at 2 Via dei Gladiatori. €15.
9 Via Tagliamento, Trieste, Rome
The Piper opened at 9 Via Tagliamento on 17 February 1965. Pink Floyd played it in April 1968, Genesis in the 1970s.
A nightclub in a basement on Via Tagliamento. Police sealed it in January 2026 in a national safety check; see whether it has reopened before you go.
53 Via Antonio Gramsci, Pinciano, Rome
He passed 15 exams in architecture before leaving to make music; when music was not working he went back to his studies for a while.
A working Sapienza faculty. See the building and its steps from Via Antonio Gramsci; the halls are for students.
Viale del Parco Mellini, Monte Mario, Rome
To write La vita è adesso he went up to the observatory on Monte Mario every day for two and a half months and sat at a bar table, with the city in front of him.
A nature reserve open from dawn to dusk; the observatory in Villa Mellini is at the top, and a belvedere looks over the city to St Peter’s.
Villa Borghese, Rome
His 1982 Alé-oo tour, a million people in all, had two special concerts: one on a floating platform at the Venice Arsenale, and one here, for 150,000.
A grass oval in Villa Borghese, open with the park. It holds Rome’s international horse show, and Baglioni again on 24 and 25 October 2026.
Viale Tiziano, Flaminio, Rome
The 1985 Notte di note tour ended here on 20 September 1985, the first light-music concert RAI broadcast live.
Closed and empty. See the Nervi stands from Viale Tiziano and Via dello Stadio Flaminio.
Viale dei Gladiatori, Foro Italico, Rome
On 6 June 1998 the Olimpico was given over to a concert in its entirety for the first time: Da me a te, repeated on 7 June.
Stadium tours run every day from 10am to 6pm except on match days; the ticket office is at 2 Via dei Gladiatori. €15.
Stay
Hotel Locarno, a street from the square that opens the 1972 album.
Campo Marzio, Rome
A hotel open since 1925 at 22 Via della Penna, a street off Piazza del Popolo, the square that opens the 1972 album. Bar Locarno and a roof terrace serve all day.
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The stadium’s own tour, the Opera’s guided tours and Villa Borghese walks on the marketplace.
Foro Italico, Rome
The stadium’s own tour: changing rooms, trophy room, the pitch where Da me a te was built in 1998. Daily 10am to 6pm except match days; €15 plus booking fee.
Book the tourPiazza Beniamino Gigli, Rome
Foyer, stalls, royal box, gallery and museum hall, Tuesday to Sunday in Italian and English, through 31 December 2026. Tickets through TicketOne.
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The opening of his last tour, on the oval where he played in 1982.
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Take it home
From the 1972 love story to Oltre in 1990. There is no original poster for him in our store.
Claudio Baglioni · LP, RCA Italiana DPSL 10551, 1972
The love story that opens on Piazza del Popolo and reaches Porta Portese.
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Find a copyClaudio Baglioni · LP, CBS 84764, 1981
Recorded between Oxford and London, and taken round Italy’s sports halls.
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Find a copyClaudio Baglioni · Double LP, CBS 88612, 1982
The live double album of the tour that filled Piazza di Siena.
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Find a copyClaudio Baglioni · LP, CBS 26533, 1985
The ten songs written at a bar table on Monte Mario.
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Find a copyClaudio Baglioni · Double CD, CBS 466135 9, 1990
Two years in the making, twenty songs, out in 1990 before the stage moved to the middle of the Flaminio.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
13 of 13 places · 16 of 16 Moments
Monte Sacro, north-east Rome: a private home
Baglioni is born in Rome and grows up in Monte Sacro.
Centocelle, east Rome: the pin is Piazza dei Mirti
A contest for new voices in Centocelle.
9 Via Tagliamento, Trieste, Rome
The 1972 version of Questo piccolo grande amore makes its debut at the Piper.
53 Via Antonio Gramsci, Pinciano, Rome
Architecture, left for music after 15 exams, taken up again when music stalls.
An architecture degree from Sapienza, with a thesis on the Gasometro.
Campo Marzio, central Rome
Questo piccolo grande amore opens on Piazza del Popolo.
Via Portuense, Trastevere, Rome
The same album reaches Porta Portese.
Viale del Parco Mellini, Monte Mario, Rome
La vita è adesso is written at a bar table on Monte Mario.
Villa Borghese, Rome
150,000 people on the oval in Villa Borghese.
The last tour opens on Piazza di Siena.
Viale Tiziano, Flaminio, Rome
Notte di note ends at the Flaminio, the first light-music concert RAI broadcast live.
Two concerts with the stage set in the middle, for the first time.
1 Piazzale dello Sport, EUR, Rome
15,000 young people at the Palazzo dello Sport.
Piazza Beniamino Gigli, Rome
With the band of the Carabinieri at the Opera.
Viale dei Gladiatori, Foro Italico, Rome
The whole Olimpico given to a concert for the first time.
Central Sanremo, Liguria
The public votes Questo piccolo grande amore the song of the century.
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