“I realized that I had a choice: I could watch the season with a clenched jaw, disgruntledly fact-checking each individual detail, or actively choose to surrender to its implausibility.”
“Rome is a city that allows you to breathe creatively. Much is happening, but never at an insistent pace.” –Andrea Baccin
“My mother [Giovanna Fontana] always said, ‘You can make history, even with clothing,’ Roberta Lami, president of the Micol Fontana Fondazione.”
“Gone are the days of random confetti and rainbow clichés…”
“Buy a bus ticket. Take the scenic route.”
“At the beginning of the calendar year, the city was expecting more than 30 million visitors (a more than double amount compared to 2023’s 13 million), and the death of Pope Francis in April and subsequent election of Pope Leo XIV have inspired an even greater swell of travelers.”
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“That’s what sweetness of living means to me—getting to the end and saying, ‘Well, at least we enjoyed it.’”
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“This is a part of Rome that no tourist envisions, but it’s enthralling all the same.”
“The locals are a similar eclectic mix of architects, artists, philosophy professors, actors, dancers, and older ladies reading d la Repubblica in tracksuits.”
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“Rome has over 930 of them, and while not every one holds a masterpiece, more than a few are well worth a detour.”
“…it’s been slyly marketed as a ‘lighter’ alternative to pizza that dates back to Ancient Rome—except… it doesn’t.”
“But Emily in Paris has never dealt in reality—it was my mistake to expect something that was never even on offer.”
“In the early days of fall, a gelato inspired by pumpkin-pecorino soup and another called ‘spinach squared’–a spinach base, spinach leaves, and crispy guanciale–graced the menu.”
