Rome street food tour and wine experience

Name: Rome street food tour and wine experience
Brand: Tabl
SKU: ZGLVTG1
Price: 46.00 GBP
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What you’ll do

During the walk through one of the most historic districts of the city, within the walls of ancient Rome, we will meet places and people of the area, historic families. The Testaccio market in Rome is a great place to sample authentic Roman street cuisine,this market offers a wide selection of fresh and delicious food. Here you can find a variety of stands selling Roman specialties such as supplì (fried rice balls filled with mozzarella), trapizzino (a combination of pizza and sandwich filled with various ingredients), porchetta (roasted pork), tripe alla Romana (tripe cooked with tomato and mint) and much more. You can also find stands selling cheeses, cured meats, fresh fruit and vegetables, freshly baked bread and traditional Roman desserts such as cannoli and Maritozzo The Testaccio market is a very popular place for both locals and tourists. It's an authentic experience to immerse yourself in Roman culinary culture and taste some of the city's most famous dishes.

Itinerary

The tour will end in front of the pyramid of Rome, where people can admire it from outside by taking pictures, with an incredible monument dedicated to the emperor of Rome

We will walk inside the historic market of Testaccio where we meet the native people of Rome we will see and taste the real Roman food of the past with a taste of the wines of the region.

It was built in conjunction with the construction of the Janicolense Walls, extension of the Leonine Walls in defense of the Gianicolo, wanted by Pope Urban VIII Barberini, to replace the previous Porta Portuensis.

The Porta Portuensis was one of the southern gates of the Aurelian Walls of Rome.

The fountain is located in the center of Piazza Testaccio and was made entirely of travertine. The choice of the motif of the amphora, very innovative in its combination of elegance and practicality, is to be found in the very symbol of the ward, which in turn has its roots in the ancient history of the area; already from the second century BC, in fact, on the left bank of the Tiber there were the storage warehouses of the terracotta amphorae containing the supplies of wine and oil destined for Rome, which traveled mainly by river. The oil containers, in particular, could not be reused by law, and therefore had to be destroyed once emptied. Over the years the shards ("testae" in Latin) piled up on the ground behind the warehouses came to form a hill up to 35 meters high, which since the Middle Ages was called "Testaccio".

Monte Testaccio, also popularly known as Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial hill located in the port area of ancient Rome and near the warehouses (horrea).