Once a year in the summer, the 100 Painters exhibition in Via Margutta (near the Spanish Steps) displays the works of one hundred local and international artists. There is also a 100 Painters exhibition in Piazza Indipendenza Pomezia in the spring. The one hundred painters’ exhibition was first held in the 1950s in the Via Margutta, which is a small Roman street renowned for inspiring the works of sculptors, painters, poets and musicians. The Via Margutta is in the ancient quarter of Campo Marzio, and it has many fashionable restaurants and art galleries located in former stables and artisan workshops. In the early 1950s, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck made a film called ‘Roman Holiday’ and the Via Margutta, which features in the film, became the haunt of artists such as Frederico Fellini and is now an exclusive residential street. Every year since 1953 there has been a one hundred painters’ exhibition except in 1969, when everyone was too busy thinking about the first moon landing to put on an exhibition. To find the Via Margutta it is necessary to go via Via Cassia to Piazzale Flaminio and then to walk through the entrance in the wall that leads to Piazza del ...