Rome to the top as the site of emotions, according to the British newspaper The Guardian, which has devoted a report to the Eternal City enthusiastic: “One thing is certain: Can not lose your head for Rome.” “Beautiful breathtaking”, also stress on the strict German Die Welt. In short, all crazy about Rome. In spite of scandals and economic crisis. In fact, the city has grown once again the number of visitors: +6.15 percent according to the latest estimates Tourism Office Roma Capitale. Why is an open-air museum that has been renewed and contemporary look. Why is the capital of the great events, as the festivals of autumn and winter, by Johannes Vermeer at the Quirinal Stables, Paul Klee, the National Gallery of Modern Art (until January 27, 2013). And yet, Robert Doisneau, Paris en liberté, with images of the famous photographer at the Exhibition Palace (until February 3, 2013) and the big show age of balance, dedicated to the emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius the Capitoline Museums (until May 5, 2013). And because it has managed to maintain its soul folk but pleasure-loving, bohemian and creative. Where to see art and masterpieces on the streets of the city. Or sit in a restaurant with good reminiscent of the fifties, movies with Aldo Fabrizi, the first Deaf and the film by Dino Risi, baroque angels in the sky.
Rome is a city of kitchen Trastevere, harmony and vitality, measure and excess, spirit and joy, and it’s nice to rediscover it with all his soul. The new restorations to the districts that recall the atmosphere of the film Poor But Beautiful (1956). Just walk with a snub nose to be surprised by the beauty of everyday, especially now that art has invaded popular places like the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio become an annex of the MACRO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (www.museomacro . org). In front of the Macro, by the end of July, there is a new market Testaccio, in a complex design and flirt stalls of fruit and vegetables. After an exhibition of art, then, at lunch you can go to the butcher counter Hit and Go Sergio Esposito. “With 3 euro mag well and go away,” he says with emphasis typically Roman. And he in fact, only 3 euro you can eat, standing a sandwich with “boiled to picchiapò”, ie boiled meat, celery, carrots, onions and tomato, or a ciabatta bread with tripe.
If Rome is sacred and profane, churches and narrow streets, aristocratic palaces and houses are mixed in the nearby Trastevere. Why Testaccio just cross a bridge and is trans-Tiber, literally across the river, just a ten minute walk to Ponte Sublicio. It’s always time for a glass: “A day without wine is like a day without sunshine”, say the hosts truthful here. So you can stop Da Enzo to 29, good trattoria in Trastevere an alley. A few tables, row and inevitable, if not very cold, outdoor dining, heated by stoves, ordering un’amatriciana or a tasty cheese and pepper, or the ball of cod, fried a real treat. Rome Gone is instead the sign that stands on a historic Roman restaurant in the beautiful square of Santa Cecilia. The owner Ugo Gambetti menu brings more than twenty years the noodles with cheese and pepper in a cup of parmesan cheese, mussel soup, gnocchi with clams and zucchini flowers, tail and tripe, for a dinner that most Roman of so you can not.
The walks between Campo de ‘Fiori and Trastevere, Testaccio or Piazza di Spagna can also riding a bike or a scooter rented the new Chariot Bike, a short walk from the station Ostiense (Via Pellegrino Matteucci 136, tel. 06.57.41.053 ). In the area, the small and chic Relais Giulia is in a newly renovated building in the same street. It has thirteen rooms, including three suites with terracotta floors, walls with Roman bricks in sight, wrought iron. Another minihotel, Le Stanze di Federica, is located between Castel Sant’Angelo and the Prati district, only six rooms on the third floor of a building. If you get off the Quirinal hill and head on foot to the Trevi Fountain, here Baccano, a new multi-purpose room. Between Piazza Venezia and Piazza del Gesù, the Enoteca Corsi is a local historian, opened in 1935, where it still stands in the center of the room, a fridge with a lot of taps tap wine. It makes operation nostalgia (it’s only open for lunch) in front of a plate of pasta and chickpeas on a Friday, Saturday or tripe. The account is crisis, given that no one rarely exceed 20 euro.
Those arriving in the capital with the Italo train, the Tiburtina station, can take advantage of hospitality like that of unusual Suites in Terrazza. Are a few rooms, suites or better, in the district Tiburtino, very sheltered from the center. It is an unusual solution to Rome but it is the ideal starting point to explore Rome an unusual, perhaps with a dinner in the nearby district of San Lorenzo, Pommidoro, reign of Roman cuisine. Here is the patron Aldo Bravo, and a client known as Roberto Benigni calls him “Tomatos” mythical his tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms, Amatriciana, spaghetti with clams. Today, the people attending the neighborhood, but also journalists and artists such as Piero Pizzi Cannella, who work at the nearby Foundation Ceres, Ceres in the pasta factory, the space in the city’s most famous contemporary art (www.pastificiocerere.com) .
A dip in Rome than once is also made with a walk in the popular quarter of Pigneto dear to Pier Paolo Pasolini in his explorations devices in the sixties. In an old workshop, including its low houses away from the center on Casilina, just two months the chef Marco Gallotta opened Rosti, a restaurant and bar with a large garden and even a bowling alley. Destination for walks in search of vintage Rome can also be Garbatella with its “lots” of the garden city. The area has retained popular soul, but now we also live young actors and artists. The lunch break is done in square Sant’Eurosia Dáil Husk, small frying. A genuine place where you can dine with a few euro, which seems really stolen from the set of Poor but beautiful. If the crisis must be, better get there very beautiful. And rich culture.