The Auditorium Parco della Musica is a public music complex in Rome's Flaminio district, at Via Pietro de Coubertin 30. Renzo Piano designed it, and the city of Rome owns it. Groundbreaking took place on January 15, 1995, and the venue opened in April 2002.
The complex has three concert halls, named Santa Cecilia, Sinopoli and Petrassi, and an outdoor theater called the Cavea. The halls are structurally separated for soundproofing but share a base lobby. Their forms have earned nicknames such as "the blobs." The fan-shaped Cavea recalls ancient Greek or Roman performance spaces.
Excavations uncovered remains from the sixth century BC, which led to design changes, a small museum and a delay of a year. In 2014 it had over two million visitors.
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