If you’ve been watching Emily in Paris, you might be wondering about Solitano, where Emily meets Marcello’s mother and joins a big birthday lunch for one of the employees of his family’s cashmere company.
I visit Ostia Antica at least 2 or 3 times a year (and if you go on the first Sunday of the month, entry is free). Everyone talks about Pompeii, which is certainly wonderful and unique in its own way, but it’s always very crowded. At Ostia Antica, even during busier times, you can always find peaceful corners, and it’s truly an ‘immersive’ experience to walk along its streets, alone, hearing only the sound of time passing.
Having lived just outside Rome - in Mostacciano, near PalaEur - through the mid eighties during college (just off Via Veneto) - my girlfriend and I frequently took the short drive. There was never anyone around but us. Visiting there blew our minds and she is Roman! What a place! Most definitely worth a visit. If I’m not mistaken we’d drive out on Via Cristoforo Colombo, which will take you all the way back into town on cobblestone streets past Circo Massimo right to the Colliseum. ROME is in my heart always ❤️🇮🇹
Such an amazing place-- and so peaceful. What always blows me away is the scale of some of the buildings. Just remarkable how big the structures could be...
I visit Ostia Antica at least 2 or 3 times a year (and if you go on the first Sunday of the month, entry is free). Everyone talks about Pompeii, which is certainly wonderful and unique in its own way, but it’s always very crowded. At Ostia Antica, even during busier times, you can always find peaceful corners, and it’s truly an ‘immersive’ experience to walk along its streets, alone, hearing only the sound of time passing.
Having lived just outside Rome - in Mostacciano, near PalaEur - through the mid eighties during college (just off Via Veneto) - my girlfriend and I frequently took the short drive. There was never anyone around but us. Visiting there blew our minds and she is Roman! What a place! Most definitely worth a visit. If I’m not mistaken we’d drive out on Via Cristoforo Colombo, which will take you all the way back into town on cobblestone streets past Circo Massimo right to the Colliseum. ROME is in my heart always ❤️🇮🇹
Such an amazing place-- and so peaceful. What always blows me away is the scale of some of the buildings. Just remarkable how big the structures could be...
Those Romans were skilled engineers. It took them less time to build the Colosseum than to create metro line C…
The mosaics there are stunning! we loved it
I think it’s worth going for the mosaics alone!
Ok, now we have to go back to Rome!!
Yes, you really do!
That’s my favorite restaurant 💕💕
Arianna al Borghetto? Or Molo Diciasette?
Arianna.
You should give a chance to “Al Monumento dal 1884” restaurant too ;-)
Lovely article! Need a little map screenshot…I don’t watch Emily in Paris…where am I?!