Showing posts with label Via Tiburtina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Via Tiburtina. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Porta Tiburtina and SAID

The manager at the hotel we are staying at suggested that we try Said - a specialty chocolate place in 135 Via Tiberina, Roma The place is an artisanal chocolate factory and sounded like a place that we would like to visit. We decided to walk along the Porta Tiberina part of the Roman walls. It was an interesting walk despite the rain.  Once again we saw how people had used the walls for housing -it would have happened long go and people have been allowed to continue to use them - they probably own the spaces.

Porta Tiburtina




Along the Tiburtina wall

The walls are brick, narrow rectangular bricks.


The walls are massive -in height and width

Porta Tiburtina

Apartments built into the wall

These plants can't be doing the wall any good
Our reward at SAID for our walk in the rain, caffe, cioccolata calda and mignon -tiny delicious cakes