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Your Rome Experience as a Local. Rome with Silvia is not just another tour company!

It’s a new tourism experience for those who want to visit Rome as a local, and soak up its culture and eternal beauty.

27/07/2023

⛲ The Fountain of the Moor is one of the three monumental fountains in Piazza Navona, located at the southern end of the square.

💛 The fountain was originally created in 1575-6 by Giacomo della Porta, and later enriched with contributions by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was completed in 1654 by Giovanni Antonio Mari.
The fountain is composed of a polylobed tub in white and pink marble with four dolphins supporting the tub and four tritons on either side of it.

🐚 The central statue represents a Moor surrounded by Tritons. The Moor stands in a conch shell, holding a dolphin in his left hand and a shell in his right hand.

25/07/2023

🧱 The Aurelian wall circuit was built in 271 AD by Emperor Aurelian and it was provided with sixteen main gates. Among them, the Appian gate is considered the most beautiful: majestic and well preserved, strategically located in the suburban landscape south of Rome.

💛 The name derives from the street of the same name on which it opens, the Via Appia, the Regina Viarum which connected Rome to ancient Capua and, subsequently, to Brindisi.
The gate opens in the southern section of the Aurelian Walls, between the Latina and Ostiense gates, and assumed its current name from the 16th century, due to its proximity to the Basilica of San Sebastiano, to which the road led.

19/07/2023

🐟 The fish garum was an ancient Roman sauce made with the innards of fish and small fish, especially silversides, small goatfishes or blotched picarels.
Everything was placed in a container, salted and left to macerate in the sun, where it was turned often. After some months of fermentation, garum was finally extracted from the containers.

💛 Garum today could make many people turn up their noses, but in Roman times it was indeed a very popular sauce, which was even considered a delicacy, when prepared with the innards of fine fish and with particular combinations of herbs and spices.

🧂 The secret, however, was in the right amount of salt: in fact, if they used too little, there was a high chance that the fish would rot; however, if they put too much, the fermentation process would be interrupted. According to Pliny the Elder, the best garum was the one prepared in southern Spain: garum sociorum.

08/07/2023

🏛 The cyclopic complex of the Baths, also called Antoniniane, forms one of the most impressive and picturesque scenery of ancient Rome. They were built by Septimius Severo and inaugurated by his son Antonino Caracalla in 217 AD.

💛 The heart of the Roman baths was characterized by five rooms: apodyterium, laconicum, tepidarium, calidarium and frigidarium. Each of these sectors had a very specific function, but it was only from their union that one could fully enjoy the beneficial effects of the baths.

💪🏽 The Apodyterion was the entrance vestibule, consisting of a vast dressing room. This environment could also serve as a gymnasium, where gymnastic exercises could be performed to warm up the muscles before entering the thermal baths.

⛲ Frigidarium, tepidarium and calidarium were the rooms intended for balneotherapy, with pools of cold, lukewarm and hot water. The Laconicum, on the other hand, was the room used for sweat baths using dry hot air.
Lastly, the Romans used pumice stone and beech ash and then had massages with perfumed oils and ointments (such as myrrh or almond oil).

05/07/2023

💛 Built by the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BC, for a distance of 124 Roman miles, the Via Appia was conceived as a road of military conquest during the Second Samnite War, with the aim of connecting Rome and Capua. However, it soon took on commercial functions, connecting the city with the southern territories.

🌼 The poet Statius (1st century AD) called it "Regina Viarum", recognizing its hegemonic role in the Roman road system. The area surrounding the Via Appia became the object, from the 4th century BC, of the interests of illustrious Roman families, who occupied the area with agricultural-productive villas, which were joined, in the imperial era, by more markedly residential or funerary complexes.

🤎 The Via Appia is, today as then, a unique road. The variety of works of art, the diversity of materials and styles, the inscriptions with famous names or curious mottos, made a journey along the Appian Way a unique experience in the world.

🏛 The guided tour will focus on the monuments along the third mile, in an itinerary in which the Roman and medieval past intertwine, creating a highly suggestive alchemy.
The route will start from the complex of the Villa of Maxentius, built by the emperor between 308 and 312 AD. Near the archaeological complex you can admire the Basilica of San Sebastiano, one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Rome.

🌿 Another important monument is the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. This funerary monument was built between 30 and 20 BC and it still impresses travelers today with its grandeur and elegance.
Near the complex it will be possible to admire the traces of the medieval past of the Via Appia, with Palazzo Caetani and the Church of San Nicola.
The tour will end at the archaeological area of Capo di Bove, where a thermal plant dating back to the middle of the 2nd century AD has been brought to light.

28/06/2023

🍇 Defrutum was a very common natural sweetener in Ancient Rome.

🍷 How was it produced? Romans used must, a residue of wine, and other leftovers. The result was called Defrutum or Sapa, depending on the amount of must used.

🍯 Why was it so popular? Defrutum was a cheap sweet sauce that could be added to meals to give them flavor and calories. Honey was a better sweetener, but it was also more expensive and only produced in certain regions, while wine was produced in almost every corner of the Empire. This might explains why the defrutum was more widespread.

22/06/2023

🌸 The majestic gardens are the cornerstone of the Villa d’Este complex, characterized by beautiful fountains and colourful trees and plants.
In particular, in the gardens you can often admire Wisteria plants that give the gardens a purple look.

💛 Wisteria is a very widespread and highly appreciated ornamental plant that originates in Asia.
History tells us that Japanese emperors, during their long journeys to distant lands, brought vases of wisteria with them, as a sign of appreciation towards the rulers of other countries. Probably because of this habit, the Wisteria became a symbol of friendship and gratitude.

🪷 Its characteristics have earned it the (italian) name “glicine” which derives from the Greek word Glikis, which means sweet. 4 species of Wisteria are known, but the best known in Italy is Wisteria Sinensis.

19/06/2023

🏛 Set in the heart of Rione Ponte, near Piazza Navona, there is an ancient noble palace, a secret gem among the wonders of Rome: Palazzo Altemps. Commissioned by Girolamo Riario in 1477 on the occasion of his marriage to Caterina Sforza, it was later purchased by Cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps.

🌼 Having become one of the headquarters of the Roman National Museum, the complex now exhibits one of the most evocative sculptural collections in the city. The beauty of the works is enhanced by the elegance of the original frescoes. Room after room, you will get lost in the rarefied atmosphere of the seventeenth century, while admiring refined ancient sculptures: from the Ares Ludovisi to the Galata Suicida. The heart of the itinerary will be the Loggia delle Delizie, the suggestive view of the noble floor, decorated like a secret pergola set with exotic fruits and animals.

💒 Another place full of charm is the Church of Sant'Aniceto, which was consecrated in 1617. Here, in 1883, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Maria Hardouin got married.

💛 The guided tour will be a two-track itinerary: on one hand, we will go through the rooms of the building, reconstructing its history and complex archaeological transformations; on the other hand, we will look at the sculptural collection exhibited there and the development of ancient art, up to the baroque restorations of Bernini and Algardi.

07/06/2023

💛 Do you want to visit a unique district in Rome?
The Coppedè District is an esoteric place of discovery, where nothing is what it seems.

✨ It is a fairy-tale agglomeration of buildings with decorative exuberance and extravagant creations.

🌼 The Palazzo del Ragno, the Villini delle Fate, the Fontana delle Rane are buildings with curious names and suggestive shapes, which give the neighborhood a mysterious and sometimes disturbing charm.

05/06/2023

👑 It is well-know that Julius Caesar was the victim of a conspiracy hatched by his godson Marco Giunio Bruto. But do you know where the murder took place? You’ve probably even walked by that place many times in Rome.

🔪 Caesar was stabbed by Brutus while he was presiding over a meeting of senators, in the Curia of Pompeii, in the current archaeological area of Largo di Torre Argentina. This is one of the busiest places in Rome and it’s also famous for being inhabited by a large colony of… cats! 🐈

🪦 In fact, in 2012 researchers have discovered the precise spot where Caesar's patricide took place. It is indicated by a concrete slab measuring three meters by two, which was commissioned by Octavian Augustus to commemorate his adoptive father and to hand down to posterity the condemnation of his murder.

29/05/2023

⭐️ THE COLOSSEUM guided tour ⭐️
The wonders of Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill

📅 Sunday June 11, 2023 - 10:30 AM

🟠 70 euros/person (tickets included) - 👉 max 10 pax

⌛️ 3h - SKIP THE LINE ENTRANCE AT THE COLOSSEUM

A GUIDED VISIT to one of the greatest monuments of Ancient Rome. Get Priority Access to Rome’s Ancient and Majestic COLOSSEUM - SEMI PRIVATE GROUP (maximum group size of 10). Marvel at one of the world's most famous and important monuments from new perspectives. The visit will include the access to the archaeological area of the ROMAN FORUM AND PALATINE HILL, with full explanations from your guide. FOR YOUR ROME EXPERIENCE AS A LOCAL

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25/05/2023

🌼 Via Margutta is one of the most characteristic streets of Rome. It's the street of artists, silent and quiet, it opens the doors to a world suspended in time.

💧 The etymology of the name is uncertain: perhaps it comes from "Marisgutta", i.e. Drop of the Sea, a euphemism used for a stream that flowed from the Villa dei Pincii.

🐎 Via Margutta was originally a lane behind the aristocratic palaces of Via del Babuino, where carriages and carts were parked, and where warehouses, stables and the houses of grooms, masons, marble workers and coachmen were located.

💛 Soon, however, the street became a fervent melting pot of artisans' and artists' shops.
This tradition is remembered in the famous Fontana delle arti by Pietro Lombardi (1927), surmounted by a bucket of brushes, with two central masks, one sad and one happy, symbolizing the alternating moods of the artists.

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