Stop me if you have heard this story before, because I like to tell it pretty often: When I first moved to Rome, it was late September. My first weekend in town, a colleague suggested we go to Marino for a festival. A party? Sure! I was new and really wanted to experience all Rome/Italy had […]
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A sagra is a festival, usually centered around a local delicacy. You can have sagre for porcini mushrooms, gnocchi, beer, lavender… but the sagra I most wanted to go near Rome is the sagra della fragole- the Nemi strawberry festival. With a fearless (and manual-transmission trained) fellow explorer, we navigated the strange world of Italian car […]