Toss a coin & you're promised a return to Rome
by Gypsystravels
Who doesn't recognize the most famous and spectacular of all the Roman Fountains???
Immortalized through paintings, engravings, photographs and films (like two of my favorite, 'La Dolce Vita' and 'Three Coins in a Fountain'), it is one of the most beautiful fountains here in Rome. The fountain was built by Nicola Salvi for Pope Clemente II on a wall of the Palazzo Poli and was completed in 1762. Tradition says that if you throw a coin into the fountain over your left shoulder you will return to Rome again soon.
Book tips for Rome
by miedje
Robert Graves - The Claudius novels (I, Claudius & Claudius the God):
Great books about the first four emperors of the Roman empire told from the inside. You really get close to the imperial family of Rome two centuries ago.
Harry Mulisch - De ontdekking van de Hemel (The discovery of heaven):
A Dutch book about two Dutch boys, their theories about life, and the mission of the son of one of them. It sounds really strange this way. But you should just read it. It's beautiful! It has been translated in English, Italian, German and possibly even more languages.
The Ice Building
by OttoMarzo about Fassi - Palazzo del Ghiaccio
A whole building dedicated to ice cream? You are not dreaming, it's true! Fassi is this fantastic ice cream shop inside the Ice Building. It's a piece of history of Rome, and absolutely one of the best ice cream shops ever! Many options about flavours, cones and everything else. Can't leaved Rome without going there before! Ice cream, ANY from € 1,40 on
Best deal for pretty good food
by crackhammer about Indian Fast Food
Its been more than a year since I had food here so don't remember exactly but found his card while cleaning up things. This restaurant is run by an Indian guy as opposed to most are run by Bangladeshis. You definitely feel the difference in the food taste if you are fond of Indian food. Cheap compared to other similar take aways. We were satisfied for the money paid.
Friendly service
by Turska about Bibo,Pizzeria-Birreria
When we came to Rome,it was 21.30 o´clock(9.30 p.m.) and we had eate nothin whole day.So we took second or third restaurant we found.They had flags of different coutries in tables-I´m not sure,did they expect us to sit at table with Finland-flag,but we didn´t.When we are abroad,we don´t want any other Finns to hear us speaking Finnish-we want to be just two of us,so we sat as far as we could,when we heard Finnish at one table.
We had old grey-hairy waiterman who was so friendly,that we didn´t see any other as friendly at this trip.
We had little fun of the name of the restaurant-it sounded like "pipo",witch is a knitted cap in Finnish-and not sertainly needed when we came! First time we ate Pizza calzone,witch was good.Second time we came,I ate"surprice,surprice-spagetti aglio e olio"(if you have red my other tips,you know I ate this MANY times at many places-I just love garlic and chili).Pasta was better than pizza.My husband took lasagna if I remember right-and liked it too.They don´t have web-site,but at Italian pizza-review-pages it had 4,5 stars,so maybe we should have tried more pizzas ;)
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May 09
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Borghese/Paolina Chapel
Terme di Caracalla - Pavement en mosaïque.
