Rome by the Orient Express: the train is a theater
A fantasy machine, the famous Orient Express brand is opening its first hotel in the Eternal City and launching a train line in Italy in dolce vita mode.
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Look at this sexy old man with his sunglasses and indigo blue jacket arriving on a yellow Vespa. Sitting behind him, an elegant woman in a pantsuit and stiletto heels is carrying her little bichoni (Bichon Frise) in a Fendi bag. As she gets off, she staggers over the sampietrini (cobblestones). "Co'sti tacchi, se rompe pure er sanpietrino!" ("With these heels, even the cobblestones might break!"), the man says to her with a laugh. Chic Rome in all its splendor. Elegance above all, per favore !
Here we are in Piazza della Minerva, in the heart of the historic Pigna district, a stone's throw from the Pantheon, the tourist traps, the antique bookstores of Via dei Cestari, and the selfie sticks saturating the Trevi Fountain. In this ambient chaos, the discreet square is a surprisingly calm island, with at its heart the magnificent Gothic church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (housing the tomb of the painter Fra Angelico) adjoining a Dominican convent where G…
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