My Rome, one step at a time

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Much of this blog will follow, though not always, the path of a small guide I wrote and continue to update for my guests. A guide to the everyday Rome, the city I actually live in. Not the postcard Rome, but the one that reveals itself to those who stay a while.

Over time, I began sharing suggestions with guests: places I visit, restaurants I enjoy, corners of the city I love. They’re not secrets, but they’re off the beaten path: the bakery downstairs with its morning scent, a park where the sunset unfolds, a tucked-away gallery that never fails to surprise.

Guests told me they valued these recommendations, so I started collecting them in a little guide. It’s still a draft, but it’s alive: it grows, changes, and evolves with time.

Because sharing a city is never only a matter of addresses. It’s explaining why a place belongs to your world, what happens when you go there, how the light shifts at different hours. It’s telling someone that this trattoria isn’t “the best” in Rome, but it’s the one where the owner always greets you, and the house wine makes you feel at home.

Rome reveals itself slowly. It isn’t in a hurry and neither should we be. Every corner carries a story, every stone a reason for being. This guide grows with me, transforms as the city transforms, gathers new discoveries and lets go of old certainties.

Some posts here will be born from those ever-changing pages. Others will follow different paths: reflections on art, on the places we inhabit, on how stories intertwine within the spaces we move through.

But always, in every case, we will go one step at a time. As one must, in Rome.