Great Journey 🏍🏍 Day 58
Every day after language school, which only lasts until just after 12, we stroll through the city and look for a nice place for lunch. The nice thing is, if you don't have a plan, you'll get somewhere. Getting lost in this city is what makes it so appealing.
Once we walk through an alley that is surprisingly quite straight, no curves, no arches. And it is antique, old. So the beautiful old. We stop to take pictures. Are very charmingly approached by a restaurant owner, he enlightens us about the best preserved ancient street in Rome (and incidentally he mentions that they have the best gnocchi in town once again!).
We believe him in the former and need to check the latter.
Via dei Coronari owes its name to the sellers of rosaries and other objects for devotion or the promotion of piety who settled in the street located between the historic centre and St. Peter's Basilica in the Middle Ages.
There was also a time when the most famous courtesans lived here. And yes, the great artists like Michelangelo also lived here. But now that they are all dead, other people live here and there are often antique dealers in the shops, giving the street a very strange charm.
