Out for dinner with Mario

Last night we had a dinner with Mario, a dear friend of ours we hadn't seen for a long time. He is a Tour Leader too but in this period, like all of us, he is not working. We met in a nice restaurant in Trastevere and obviously we ordered a pizza. "Going to eat …

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Tiber flooding

According to a Latin motto "repetita juvant", "it is useful to repeat things". That’s why I will never be too tired to tell you that Rome is a city that never ends: even in the most unthinkable places this generous city will offer you a chance to learn about it. For example, on the walls.  …

Talking statues

Yes, you read the title correctly. It sounded weird to me too and when I was a kid, it was actually kind of scary. If I couldn't avoid the streets of the talking statues, or I forgot and suddenly found them in front of me, I hastened my step. I was terrified they would talk …

Rome is for all of us

Therapeutic properties of art is a well-known concept today.  And for sure many of us have seen photos of a person being brought by medical staff into a museum as if to grant one last wish: seeing beauty again.  But in Rome, where beauty is certainly not something we miss, since 2012 there was already …

Piazza Navona’s imaginary tour

Today I would like to tell you about this beautiful square, one of the icons of Rome, starting from a very personal memory. Not really a memory of mine actually, but of my grandfather Pietro, who, for some years, when he was a child, lived with his family in an apartment inside this brown front …

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 …

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 …