Campo de' Fiori: a slice of daily life!

The best way to get to know a city is trying to interact with its inhabitants. And the street market is no doubt one of the best places to do so! This is why we decided to organize a tour at the market of Campo de’ Fiori, one of the most famous and ancient of Rome.

As a matter of fact, besides being one of the night spots that young people like the most thanks to its numerous square-side cafés, pubs and bars, Campo de’ Fiori is a slice of daily life, the most genuine portrait of a city that is slowly being swallowed by the fast rhythm and the chaos of our times and that here, instead, seems to go back to its past and traditions.

The Pantheon Institute students demonstrated quite a bit of interest for this initiative: walking with me and Alessia thought the market stands, they had the chance to practice their Italian while buying fresh fruits and vegetables and to interact with local people.

Street markets are full of funny people…here you get to talk to persons that you would hardly meet in other places, so this was really an interesting occasion for our students to immerse themselves into the local Roman culture. And they did so without embarrassment: some of them filled up several plastic bags with fresh fruits and veggies that later coked together with their mates in the Trastevere dorm.

After doing some food shopping, me and Alessia lead the students to the famous “Forno Campo de Fiori”, a true paradise for pizza and desserts lovers. This bakery shop is definitely one of the best of the city center…it was so crowded that we had a hard time to get in!

The students bought some pizza, bread and handmade desserts…and everything was absolutely delicious!

The next step to become familiar with Italian culture will be learning how to prepare some of the most famous recipes of its culinary tradition; this is exactly the reason why we have decide to dedicate the next two weeks to a series of cooking classes that I will be arranging with the students and that will take place either at the dorm in Trastevere or at the students apartments.