Things are happening in Rome.
In the previous post you saw the work in progress in via delle Carrozze. The pavement and the cobbled streets of the Tridente are being refurbished, courtesy of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. Yesterday I was notified, as a fidelized public transport user, that the Piazza San Silvestro bus terminus will disappear on Monday and works will start for a new pedestrian-friendly piazza. The set-up you see here below will be a souvenir.
In the photo opening this post you see our local baretto. Also the baretto is being refurbished, I took the picture on the last day of operation with the old layout. This is where for the past 10 years, since June 2001 precisely, MeinMann and I have been consuming cappuccini, cornetti and news in the morning. Agnese (pictured), Sebastian and Gaia are the first multi-kulti smiles we see on our way to work – their assessment of weather conditions calls for cappuccino freddo, tiepido, caldo or the special-situations caffellatte con il miele…a friendly smile is much better than Starbucks’ stale marketing, I tell you.
So. Things are happening in Rome, and some trusted things are staying the same. In the middle of static institutions, stalling political representation, establishment and economy, some are moving and shaking indeed. And we will remember this Summer like this, pictured in a beautiful article in today’s D di Repubblica: “Roma: il grande backstage della vita” where the daylight panorama of the city is “a giant Twitter, buzzing endlessly from the past” but at night finally the visual, acoustic and historic noise calm down, and you can hear the song of crickets and fontanelle…
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