If you want to get the true feeling of an ancient city like Rome, walk through its alleyways and savour the typical dampish smell of its history. Walk into the old greengrocer's and marvel the colors of the typical Italian tomatoes and vast varieties of veggies. The geraniums on the sills of the tiny windows and the cobble-stoned streets.
Do you enjoy going through old stores, little stalls and workshops? Rome is the place for you! The only thing you have to worry about is your luggage. The tendency is to go overboard and buy just about anything and everything that catches your fancy.
San Lorenzo is a suburb that was bombed during WWII but has always retained its true Roman nature and attitude. This suburb is famous for its stone and marble works.
In Piazza Navona turn your back towards the Pantheon and walk under the little archway which leads you straight to Piazza delle Cinque Lune. On your left Via de' Coronari starts a silent little pedestrian area lined with antiquities and laboratories for the restoration of furniture, carpets and prints. What you can buy here is not easily affordable by the ordinary pocket. Shops windows display signs like - we accept American Express, Visa, Mastercard - and - we speak English. These signs make you think of a very well off clientele, especially foreign tourists.
There are two ways of approaching a vacation in Rome. One is that you bring an extra suitcase or buy another one on the spot or simply do window shopping! It is not less gratifying and less enjoyable than the first. You can always pick-up the trend in fashion and the colors that go with the season you are travelling in.
At No. 198 of Via de' Coronari is a tiny shop called "Il Collezionista" - the Collector - where tiny soldiers, old spectacles, important medals, old sewing machines and you name it, they have it, are displayed in "bellavista".
A rocking horse, miniature car and a playful atmosphere is what your children will get if you go along to Via Metastasio No 17, near the Pantheon, where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will gladly cut your children's hair.
Getting hungry? From Via de' Coronari you reach Piazzetta di San Simeone where incidentally the Antiques Osteria is found. Walk a little further and between Campo de' Fiori and Largo Argentina, halfway down Via de' Giubbonari is a woman renowned for frying zucchini flowers, stockfish and other plain specialities in the most impeccable Roman way.
Here is a little joke! Two little friends return to school after the summer holidays and one of them boasts that his father has opened a pizza shop and caters for any kind of topping in the world. The other little fellow wants to check him out and in the same evening goes there for dinner. His little mate comes up with an order pad and says: " what would you like with your pizza?" the reply is "pizza with whale!". Shortly after the little waiter returns and says:" my father would rather not slice up a whole whale for one little slice of pizza!" This is to say that in Rome between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon is a pizza shop that at lunch time for very little cost will top your take away pizza with just about anything you want! Not whale!!!
Do you enjoy going through old stores, little stalls and workshops? Rome is the place for you! The only thing you have to worry about is your luggage. The tendency is to go overboard and buy just about anything and everything that catches your fancy.
San Lorenzo is a suburb that was bombed during WWII but has always retained its true Roman nature and attitude. This suburb is famous for its stone and marble works.
In Piazza Navona turn your back towards the Pantheon and walk under the little archway which leads you straight to Piazza delle Cinque Lune. On your left Via de' Coronari starts a silent little pedestrian area lined with antiquities and laboratories for the restoration of furniture, carpets and prints. What you can buy here is not easily affordable by the ordinary pocket. Shops windows display signs like - we accept American Express, Visa, Mastercard - and - we speak English. These signs make you think of a very well off clientele, especially foreign tourists.
There are two ways of approaching a vacation in Rome. One is that you bring an extra suitcase or buy another one on the spot or simply do window shopping! It is not less gratifying and less enjoyable than the first. You can always pick-up the trend in fashion and the colors that go with the season you are travelling in.
At No. 198 of Via de' Coronari is a tiny shop called "Il Collezionista" - the Collector - where tiny soldiers, old spectacles, important medals, old sewing machines and you name it, they have it, are displayed in "bellavista".
A rocking horse, miniature car and a playful atmosphere is what your children will get if you go along to Via Metastasio No 17, near the Pantheon, where Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will gladly cut your children's hair.
Getting hungry? From Via de' Coronari you reach Piazzetta di San Simeone where incidentally the Antiques Osteria is found. Walk a little further and between Campo de' Fiori and Largo Argentina, halfway down Via de' Giubbonari is a woman renowned for frying zucchini flowers, stockfish and other plain specialities in the most impeccable Roman way.
Here is a little joke! Two little friends return to school after the summer holidays and one of them boasts that his father has opened a pizza shop and caters for any kind of topping in the world. The other little fellow wants to check him out and in the same evening goes there for dinner. His little mate comes up with an order pad and says: " what would you like with your pizza?" the reply is "pizza with whale!". Shortly after the little waiter returns and says:" my father would rather not slice up a whole whale for one little slice of pizza!" This is to say that in Rome between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon is a pizza shop that at lunch time for very little cost will top your take away pizza with just about anything you want! Not whale!!!
About the Author:
Cristiano Rubbi travelled around the world but has always returned to Rome, he often says that the ancient Romans, masters of the known world of the time, settled here. There must be a reason for this! The city he loves most and enjoys sharing his experience with you as a travel operator on his forum, on his website or just contacting him with an email to: info@niceandeasytravel.it.
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