This collection gathers customs, local observances, and popular events tied to traditional celebrations, from neighborhood festivals to seasonal rites. It is useful for anyone who wants to take part in community life and learn customs that have been passed down over time.

Places: Roman traditions (27)

• Ancient Roman Festivals: The Calendar and the PlacesIn the painted calendars that the Romans posted in the forums, the days marked as public feriae number more than a hundred, and with the cycles of…
• Birthday of Rome: April 21 and How It Is CelebratedRome's Birthday is celebrated on April 21 and commemorates the founding of the city, which ancient tradition fixes at 753 BC: in 2026 the occasion…
• Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei PellegriniThe Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini is in the rione Regola, at the corner of Via dei Pettinari and the piazza that bears its name, a…
• Christmas in Rome: markets, nativity scenes, lights and MassesChristmas in Rome is not a single day. It's a period a month long, which opens on December 8 with the feast of the Immaculate Conception and closes…
• Church of San Marcello al CorsoThe Church of San Marcello al Corso faces a small recessed square along via del Corso, in the Trevi rione, halfway between Palazzo Venezia and the…
• Church of Sant’Agata in TrastevereChurch of Sant'Agata in Trastevere Largo san Giovanni de Matha, Rome Simply the church that keeps the statue of the Madonn…
• Column of the Immaculate ConceptionThe Column of the Immaculate Conception stands in piazza Mignanelli, the stretch of piazza di Spagna that widens in front of Palazzo di Propaganda…
• Easter in Rome: Holy Week, Via Crucis and Urbi et OrbiEaster is the week in which Rome works at the peak of its capacity: four papal celebrations in six days, a Way of the Cross at the Colosseum that b…
• Fontanella degli innamoratiCouples who drink at the Fontanella degli innamorati will stay in love and faithful forever.
• GarbatellaYou go to Garbatella to see something that doesn't exist anywhere else in Rome: a piece of the city built all at once starting in 1920 as a garden…
• Historic Cafés and Shops of Rome: Which Ones Are Worth ItThe historic cafés and shops of Rome are today a shrinking heritage, and the most honest way to tell it is to start from the news that closed an er…
• Holy Trinity Sanctuary of VallepietraSantuario della Santissima Trinità is on Via Santissima Trinità, in the territory of Vallepietra (RM), below the wall of Monte Autore, at an altitu…
• Lost and Found Roman FestivalsThe calendar of Roman festivals is a map of things that have ended. Some went out on their own when the city that kept them going came to an end, t…
• Mercato TrionfaleMercato Trionfale is at Via Andrea Doria 41, in the Trionfale neighborhood, within the territory of Municipio I of Roma Capitale. Entry is free, yo…
• Nasoni (Rome’s Drinking Fountains)The nasoni of Rome are the public cast-iron drinking fountains scattered across the whole city, from the historic center to the outskirts: you drin…
• Nuovo Mercato TestaccioNuovo Mercato Testaccio Via Galvani, Rome
• PasquinoPasquino is the marble torso propped against the northwest corner of Palazzo Braschi, in the square that since the 16th century has ended up taking…
• Roman CarnivalThe Roman Carnival is a festival that today almost no longer exists in Rome, and that for four centuries was the most famous thing the city produce…
• Rome’s ghosts: legends and placesThe ghosts of Rome are not apparitions. They are tales. None of the stories that follow has ever been verified, and none ever will be, because none…
• Rome’s Markets: Neighborhood, Historic and SecondhandThe markets of Rome are three different things that the same word holds together: the neighborhood markets where the city does its shopping, the hi…
• Rome’s neighborhood fountainsRome's neighborhood fountains, the fontanelle rionali, are a series of small travertine fountains designed by the architect Pietro Lombardi and mos…
• San Biagio degli ArmeniSan Biagio degli Armeni is on Via Giulia, at number 63 according to the tourist portal of Roma Capitale and 64 according to the Fiorentini parish,…
• Sanctuary of the Madonna del Divino AmoreThe Divino Amore sanctuary is a pilgrimage destination dear to Romans: during the summer, every Saturday there is a night pilgrimage on foot from R…
• Santa Maria dell’OrtoSanta Maria dell’Orto is the church of the Universities of arts and trades of Rome, and stands in Trastevere at the crossing of Via Anicia and Via…
• Scalea del TamburinoScalea del Tamburino Viale Glorioso, Roma Staircase linking upper Trastevere to lower Trastevere, dedicated to a young dr…
• Testaccio: What to See in the Monte dei Cocci NeighborhoodTestaccio is Rome's twentieth rione, the smallest and the youngest of the historic ones. It became an independent rione in 1921, splitting off from…
• The Talking Statues of RomeThe talking statues of Rome are six sculptures scattered around the historic center on which, from the 16th century onward, Romans secretly posted…