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Where to go in San Lorenzo (when you are not anymore an uni student)

San Lorenzo, Rome

Where to go in San Lorenzo when you are not anymore an uni student?

After the hell of a weekend at work, I finally had the time to relax and spend a couple of days with my Macedonian friend Elena who was in town for a long weekend. I was feeling guilty for ignoring her during her first days in Rome and I really wanted to make it up to her with an underground tour of the city, as she already had plenty of time during the previous days to visit the touristic part by herself. It wasn’t a marathon, though, thus the first day started slowly with a tasty brunch at my place, followed by a coffee with my mother at Dagnino, the Sicilian bar under Piazza della Repubblica’s elegant porch. From here we walked towards San Lorenzo, which I figured out being the proper point of departure of any underground tour of the capital, since all Romans in their teens, all undergraduates coming here studying from all over Italy and all Erasmus students coyly start discover the other side of Rome from this neighborhood.

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Pietralata and Montesacro: what to see in northern Rome

Pietralata, Rome What to see in northern Rome?

Last week was hectic; at one point I just needed to get away from the chaos of the town centre and enjoy a relaxing walk somewhere not so far away, somewhere I could have reached with less effort than a proper get-away destination, maybe a place along a river, with a beautiful park and nice alleys to simply get lost.
That’s how the area of Pietralata and Montesacro came up to my mind…

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Lake Vico

Lately I’ve been spending my days off mostly on the bed watching some tv shows, calling my friends to catch up and imagining how to home-shape the new flat where I moved almost one month ago. After all, it was too hot to have a walk outside, even if I can’t wait to discover each and every corner of my new neighborhood!

Another Rome || Ostiense Cemetery

A peaceful walk through artists’ and poets’ graves

When I was young and still travelling with my parents my wish to avoid touristic tours made me a passionate about cemeteries and wherever we went I’d always pay a visit to the local graveyard. It may sound creepy, but I’ve always been fascinated by cemeteries; I find they are very peaceful places where you can walk through the past of a town.