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The Piazza di Spagna is a square in the centre of Rome, the capital of Italy. It lies at the foot of the Spanish Steps and owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna, the seat of the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See. The Column of the Immaculate Conception is in the square.
The Testaccio rione, Rome's trade and slaughterhouse area, is the place where Rome's most original and traditional foods can still be found. The area was often known as the "belly" or "slaughterhouse" of Rome, and was inhabited by butchers, or vaccinari. [6] The most common or ancient Roman cuisine included the quinto quarto (lit. ' fifth ...
Gold, Barbara K.; Donahue, John F. (2005). Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American Journal of Philology. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8202-9. Faas, Patrick; Whiteside, Shaun (2005). Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-23347-5. Dalby, Andrew (2003). Food in the ancient world from ...
The word derives from the early 19th century, taken from the French word restaurer 'provide meat for', literally 'restore to a former state' [2] and, being the present participle of the verb, [3] the term restaurant may have been used in 1507 as a "restorative beverage", and in correspondence in 1521 to mean 'that which restores the strength, a fortifying food or remedy'.
Via Margutta, looking southward toward the Spanish Steps. Via Margutta is a narrow street in the centre of Rome, near Piazza del Popolo, accessible from Via del Babuino in the ancient Campo Marzio neighborhood also known as "the foreigner's quarter". Mount Pincio is nearby. Via Margutta originally was home to modest craftsmen, workshops and ...
The main entrance. The Spanish ambassadors had rented the Monaldeschi Palace for more than a decade. In 1647, the new ambassador, Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 8th Count of Oñate, made an offer for the palace, owned by the Monaldeschi family, an old Roman noble family, through an Italian agent, Bernardino Barber, and later obtained the permission of purchase of the Congregation of Barons of the ...
Reproduction of a triclinium. A triclinium (pl.: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building. [1] The word is adopted from the Greek triklinion (τρικλίνιον)—from tri-(τρι-), "three", and klinē (κλίνη), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue.
Pizza al taglio or pizza al trancio (lit. ' pizza by the slice ') [1] is a variety of pizza baked in large rectangular trays, [2] and generally sold in rectangular or square slices by weight, with prices marked per kilogram or per 100 grams. [3]