The Romans: Sant’Eustachio the coffee

If you ask them, they will tell you the Sant'Eustachio café is a small family business and it is indeed: Raimondo is the owner with his daughter, Federica, and his brother, Roberto. If you ask any Roman instead, he will tell you that the Sant'Eustachio café is the most famous café in Rome. Before the …

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Proxemics

In the morning I wake up like this, with this beautiful painting of Vincenzo in front of my eyes. The title is "It was Summer", like a Jacques Prevert’s poem. I look at it and for a few seconds I don't remember the virus outside. This clash of warm colours gives me the idea of …

Vincenzo’s business

As my purpose with this blog is to let you know not only the city but also the romans, I'll start to introduce you Vincenzo, goldsmith and painter. Of course, where you see paint buckets on the floor, soaking brushes, easels and paintings of all sizes that’s the painter's studio. Neither his or my clothing …

Quarantine and silence

Till a few days before the lockdown, voices of people who spoke many different languages came inside my living room from the windows and since I live in a narrow street with little traffic, without any effort you could also listen to many conversations of people on the phone who shared with the whole building …