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Ice Club Roma: a Roman ice bar

As detailed extensively in the post about my visit that I haven’t written yet, I didn’t know this Roman ice bar even existed until I found out about it at an event in Gaeta. I happened to be going back to Rome on my way to Florence, so I squeezed in a visit. Definitely not sorry!

Here's the bar in the ice bar. "SPQR" stands for "The Senate and People of Rome" and is kind of an emblematic phrase for the Roman Republic, kinda like "In God We Trust" for the U.S.,
a colorful row of human figure ice sculptures
a portrait of Emperor Traianus (Trajan), who was supposedly a good one, y'know, for an emperor
a female torso with blue lighting
frozen into an ice wall is this bar-appropriate play on "Facta non verba," or "Actions, not words"
their ice glasses are like mini ice cream cones. They give you little plastic cylinders so they won't fall over.
this cool Winged Victory-ish piece was in a corner of the bar
another difficult to execute reverse relief, this one of a lion head
Ice Club Roma evidently has a thing about engraving words in the walls
a very well done bust along one of the walls (maybe a nun?)
a cozy corner room in the ice bar
this face is awesome, and really difficult to do, in my experience. Plus, he looks like he's partly submerged.
Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire
not sure why you need a hole in an ice wall, but it does make for an interesting pic
of course, they had to have Caesar somewhere

no useful info here yet, sorry

Uh, you read the subtitle right? So I don’t know what else you’re thinking will be here…

so, where is it?

I’ll add that later. Until then, google.

still more boring stuff that nobody reads

I’m slowly working on rebuilding my collection of ice sculpture galleries (like snail’s pace). I had a pretty impressive collection on the old ice carving secrets site, so I have all of those and many more to add as well. My current estimate is that I will end up with at least 7 million photo galleries on the site. Oops, I meant 60. But that still means I have a long way to go. As for more like this, check out the selection of galleries from icy places.

Also, you might also find photos and info from this gallery on the ice sculpting secrets Instagram account or the facebook page. Since you can’t comment on this page, comment there if you have any thoughts or knowledge related to this event. Thanks!