Mini Rome Guide Book

A friend of mine recently asked me to write up a list of a few places to go in Rome for her sister who is going to study there this semester, so I did and it turned into quite a lengthy list...Here are my favorite places in Rome...Please add yours to the list

Rome

Food:

Restaurants:

La Gatta Mangiona

Via F. Ozanam, 30- 32 (Monte Verde- near San Giovanni di Dio take 8 tram from Largo Argentina)

www.lagattamangiona.com

Gourmet pizza. best pizzeria in Rome, the also have pasta, salads, meat…

Remo

Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice 44 (Testacio)

Traditional pizzeria. Best traditional pizza.

Gea

Via Camillo Serafini 47 in Bravetta/ Monte Verde

La Smorfia

Seafood

Via silvestri, 197/199 in Bravetta/ Monte Verde

Pistoia

Piazza Madonna della Salette 13/14 in Monte Vertde

http://www.osteriapistoia.com/

Formula 1

Pizzeria

Via degli Equi, 11 in San Lorenzo

Da Franco

Seafood

Via dei Falisci 1/b

Il Buchetto

Pizzeria

Via Flaminia 119 in Flaminio

Spaghetteria L'Archetto

Via dell'Archetto, 00187 (Trastevere)

Street Food- Pizza al Taglio and Suppli and Arrancini:

Casa dei Suppli

Piazza Re di Roma 20 (right next to metro A stop Re di Roma)

I Suppli

Via San Francesco a Ripa in Trastevere

Mondo Arrancina

Via Marcantonio Colonna in Flaminio

Il Pizzettiere

Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice in Testaccio, Ostiense

Gelato and Coffee:

Giolitti

http://www.giolitti.it/

There’s one near the Pantheon and one in Testaccio (I like the one in Testaccio better, less turistic)

Caffe Sant Eustachio

http://santeustachioilcaffe.it/

Piazza Sant’Eustachio, 82 (near the Pantheon)

Night Life:

Big Star

Pub- Good imported German and English beers

Via Goffredo Mameli, 25 in Trastevere

Il Baretto

Bar/ pub/ aperitivo

Via Garibaldi, 27

Circolo degli Artisti

Music Venue (Rock and Alternative Music)

via Casilina Vecchia 42

www.circoloartisti.it/

Sinister Noise

Music Venue and Bar (Rock, Punk, Noise and Alternative Music)

Via dei Magazzini Generali, 4 in Testaccio

www.sinisternoise.com/

There is a great sandwhich shop around the corner and there is a great bar across the street with fresh cornetti

Dal Verme

Music Venue and Bar (Noise and Ambience and Alternative Music)

Via Luchino Dal Verme, 60 in Pignetto

Sites:

Largo Argentina Temples and Cat Sanctuary (Near the Pantheon)

Baths of Caracalla

Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 52 near circus maximus which is also really cool

The Moses with Horns by Michaelangelo in Saint Peter in Chains (San Pietro in Vincoli)

Piazza San Pietro in Vincoli

Saint Teresa in Ecstacy in Santa Maria della Vittoria

Via 20 Settembre, 17

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa

Carravaggio Paintings 

Santa Maria di Popolo in Piazza del Popolo

Santa Maria in Trastevere

Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere

Piramide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius

Gianicolo Hill (Beautiful View)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janiculum

The “Bone Church” Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Concezione_dei_Cappuccini

Musei Capitolini

Via dei Baullari, 1

http://en.museicapitolini.org/

San Giovanni in Laterno

Every church you see

Museums and Culural Centers:

Galleria Borghese in Villa Borghese

Casa de Cinema in Villa Borghese

www.casadelcinema.it/

Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1

Lots of free movies and events

Scuderie del Quirinale

next to Piazza Quirinale where they do military drills

National Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna)

Viale delle Belle Arti 131

Complesso del Vittoriano

Via Di San Pietro In Carcere

Il Palazzo dei Espozini

Via Nazionale, 194

english.palazzoesposizioni.it

Villa Medici

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Medici

Day Trips:

Tivoli

Hadrian’s Villa

Santa Marinella

Beach

Frascati

One of the cities in the Roman Castles accessable by train. The Roman Castles are famous for their wine and porchetta. The mascot of Frascati is a woman with 3 breasts (the middle breast is for wine).

Shopping:

Porta Portese

Stretch across Trastevere

Huge outdoor market every Sunday

Every Saturday there’s a huge market with just cloths, not as good at San Giovanni in Laterno

Mas

Piazza Vittorio

Via Del Corso

More Than a Month of Too Much To Do and No Time For Blogging

a mobile photo of a someone's window in Williamsburg.

Hi. I'm feeling bad that I haven't posted anything in over a month. I had plans to. I had plans to make Halloween costumes and post pictures of them. I had plans to celebrate Halloween even! But it's funny how things often don't go as we plan them. I was really excited about having my first Halloween in the States in 3 years, but unfortunately I moved into my new and 1st apartment in New York on Halloween. So this past month and more has been completely crazy. My husband and I moved from Rome to New York so we have been getting all our documents in order so we could leave Italy, packing up my life of 3 years and my husbands life of 29 years into 4 suitcases weighing 23 kilos each. Then in New York, finding an apartment and jobs and then trying to find other, better jobs and then moving into our new apartment and cleaning our apartment and our stuff (which got infested with moths while sitting untouched for 3 years at my mom's house). We still have so much more to do but for now at least I'm a little more unpacked and my esty shop is open again. Soon I will start making new stuff and exploring New York and you will see photos from that.

A Pyramid in Rome!?

One of my favorite monuments in Rome is the Pyramid of Cestius (Piramide Cestia) in Testaccio. It is also the source of my inspiration for my Magical Pyramid Earrings.

Built from about 18 BC–12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius Epulo, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations at Rome, the Septemviri Epulonum. from wikipedia.

Piramide through the ages.

Prudent Vatican City Tour Guide Outfits

Last Summer I was working as a Vatican Museums and City Tour Guide and the dress code was very strict. Every thing from shoulders to knees had to be covered and if you had a tattoo that had to be covered as well. Since I have a mid sleeve tattoo that had to be covered so I designed a prudent Vatican City tour guide dress with pockets for myself. It covers everything that needs to be covered and has a 1960's inspired look with a slightly bubbled skirt, but since it has to be long enough to cover the knees it is a bit hard to walk in...you waddle like a penguin, so I'm considering shortening it now that I'm not a tour guide any more.


















I also designed for myself a shoulder shrug that covers my tattoo so that I could throw this on on top of a chemise when I arrived at that Vatican City. However it is made of merino wool so it is too hot for summer but it works for fall and spring. It is 40's/ 50's inspired and the pattern is a mixture of a leaf pattern and the nosegay pattern.
The yarn is very special because it is hand-spun by my mother, Lucinda Reichley, who is a very talented yarn maker and knitter.

































To purchase the PDF of this shoulder shrug pattern or to order a custom made knit wear visit
Il Gatto Selvatico and convo me, or email me penelope.reichley@gmail.com, I'll be happy to do it.