Villa Medici

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Founded over 350 years ago, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici is an artists' residence, an art center with a wide range of programs (exhibitions, festivals, concerts, performance) and a cultural heritage site open to visitors.

Visits Programme Residencies

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Cinema

Film Festival

16.09 - 20.09.2026

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Architecture

Garden

Festival des Cabanes

20.05 - 28.09.2026

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Long-term Residency

Open call fellows annual selection

Application 04.09 - 16.10.2026

Each year, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici organizes an international competition to select fellows who will be welcomed at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency in creation, experimentation and research (residency begins in September, ends in August).

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Call for projects

Interior design of the last three fellows’ pavilions

The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is opening a new call for projects from June 22 to October 30, 2026 for the interior design of the last three fellows' pavilions (pavilions G-H-I).

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Currently at Villa Medici

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Crossing the Threshold of Villa Medici

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Step inside one of the most beautiful Renaissance villas in the heart of the Italian capital and travel through Renaissance Rome, the Rome of the 17th- and 18th-century Grand Tour, all the way to the Rome of today....

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