Robert De Niro to Receive Rome’s Top Honor as Part of Alice in the City Festival

Robert De Niro will be honored with the Lupa Capitolina, the city of Rome’s top honor, in tandem with the Rome Film Festival’s independently run Alice in the City sidebar, which is dedicated to films for children and youth.

De Niro in expected on Nov. 6 and 7 in the Italian capital where he will receive the honor from Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri. Mixing business with kudos, De Niro will concurrently be in the Eternal City to attend the inauguration of his Nobu Hotel Roma on the iconic Via Veneto, the latest retreat from chef Nobu Matsuhisa, De Niro and producer Meir Teper, who will all be on hand.

They will perform the so-called Kagami-Biraki ceremony, in which the lid of the sake barrel is broken open with a wooden mallet and the sake is served to everyone present as a symbol of harmony and good fortune, in front of the hotel on Via Veneto,…