Hi, I’m Gianluca.
I studied cultural anthropology, and I’ve always been fascinated by the different ways people live, move, and experience a place.
Rome is not only my city – it’s the environment I love observing, understanding, and sharing through these small stories.
Together with my wife Connie, we host travellers in our small hotel near the Vatican, where we enjoy meeting people from all over the world and exchanging perspectives – just as I do here in the blog.
If you ever feel like saying hello while exploring Rome, you’ll find us on our terrace as well, where every morning we serve breakfast with a view.
Gianluca
I found this videos today and I want to share it, just to show how the empty spaces of Rome look like. The Coronavirus is a disaster. A disaster under many aspects, and an empty city is just not natural, weird and scary. But at the same time it is impossible to deny that these monuments completely empty, with the middle day light, are an absolute beauty.
Today is the 30th of April, and usually in April and May Rome is full of Tourists, of local people walking around: it is alive and vibrant. This year the situation is exceptional and surely the Pantheon Square has never been so empty before.
