This is a detail of a memorial to the patriots who died during the Italian Unification process in the 19th century. It’s located on the Janiculum Hill (called the Gianicolo in Italian), which overlooks Trastevere. I don’t get over here much, but it’s an amazing place from...

Another capture from the Festa dei Noantri procession, I really loved how the light was captured in the face of this nun as she walked along. I think she was probably looking up at the canopy that was holding the Virgin Mary. She looks rather serene, no? Obviously living in Rome you run...

If you haven’t read the news or checked out my slideshow about street art/street performers in Rome on BudgetTravel.com, please do so! It’s hard saving up good pics and now showing them to you guys first, but patience paid off. Of course not everything I submitted could be used,...

For the first time I went out to view the opening procession of the Feast of Santa Maria del Carmine, better know here as the Festa dei Noantri. I went with a friend who lives in Trastevere and told me how each year the Virgin Mary is dressed a different outfit made by local seamstresses. ...

I grew up Italian American and so thought I knew a lot about Italian food, but even from my first stint as a study abroad student in the Veneto, I realized that I didn’t know much of anything. And one thing I definitely didn’t know about is the deliciousness that are arrosticini....

I was lucky enough to wander upon a charity concert for Abruzzo happening in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on Saturday night, where the mosaics were beautifully illuminated and I took this photo. I think people underestimate mosaics as an art form and while Rome isn’t the...