Milongas in Rome
Enrico Colagrossi
Rome has become one of the international capitals of tango. It offers many opportunities to dance
tango, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It is a dynamic environment in which new events are born
and old ones, weekly. There are classic milongas, milongas milonguera, milongas electronica, pop
milongas, bilongas, meadow milongas, milongas sin cortinas, milongas clandestino, milongas for
beginners, and much more.
Roman tango is often an embarrassment of choice,
causing great anxiety when choosing where to dance.
It is difficult to determine what is the right choice.
Will there be people this week? Or will they choose to
go somewhere else? Facebook helps: By consulting the
events created by the organizers, the participates and
likes give a sense of who will attend the event. What-
sapp chat groups cam also provide a good idea of the
attendance.
Rome has an area of 1290 sq km, in comparison to
Paris’s 105 and Barcelona’s 99. Evening public transpor-
tion is limited. Travel at night in the city is entrusted to
private taxis. As a result, it is often most convenient to
choose a milonga not too far from home. Often, the
same location may host different milongas for different
audiences on different evenings
There has been an historic rivalry between Roma Nord
and Roma Sud that now favors Roma Est. Caught inbe-
tween are Nomentana and Appia. Among the venues
where the Roman tangueros spend their milonga nights,
the most popular are Arrabal, Barrio, Barbari, Cafe-
tin, Cappabelito, Club 931, Criminal, Tango Loft, Madre-
selva, MUST, Neolonga, OrangoTango, Passional, Popular
100celle, Pulper, Sub-Urban, Tango Bar, TangOfficina, and
Tanguera. Prices of entries vary from 3 euros to sub-
scribing to popular milongas to 8-10 euros of classic
milongas. On special nights that are hosted by interna-
tional artists, prices rise a bit. Prices, however, are abso-
lutely popular. In the future, it would probably be desir-
able to differentiate a biy morem unstead of the leveling
down that is happening now. 30 euros for the entrance
to a disco is common. It would be interesting, for some
venues began to propose a higher priced product offer-
ing a higher quality event.
Of course, the populous Roma Est
isn’t the only place to dance tango,
there are also other milongas scat-
tered throughout the rest of the city.
Beginning with Roma Nord with the
historic Giardino del Tango, la Porteñita
and La Milonga de la Luna at Defrag.
Roma Ovest has La Mirada and the
Traspié. Roma Sud has Café Domin-
guez, Caffè Letterario, la Garage, la
Presidencial and il Querer..
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