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The oldest restaurant of Rome, La Campana, celebrates his 500th birthday

19/6/2019

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Have you ever been in a restaurant that has 500 years? More or less the same age as Leonardo Da Vinci, just to give an example.
The first time you enter in that historical place, La Campana (the bell), in a little street that has the same name, “Vicolo Della Campana”, in the very hearth of Rome, between via della Scrofa and piazza Nicosia, you are a bit impressed and intimidated.  If you know the history  of that “trattoria romana” , of course.
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Probably a lot of tourist that walking in front of the restaurant open the door because they see through the glass that there is a beautiful buffet don’ t know where they are. They ‘ll understand  very quickly that it is a special place with a long history discovering paintings and drawings of past centuries on the walls and the image of an old carriage with horses on the menu.
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Once, the clients of the Campana travelled like that and when they arrived in Rome, that was a place to eat and rest before going on in their “grand tour” of Italy. But there were also al lot of habitués that lived in Rome, some of them very near the restaurant. Like the marvellous painter Il Caravaggio who lived in another little street two minutes from the campana, the  “Vicolo del Divino Amore” (Divine Love), in the beginning of the 17th century. After him, Goethe who spent a long period in Rome between 1786 and 1788 and lived also in the neighbourhood, via del Corso, was also one of the clients of the Campana.
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At the time of the Dolce Vita (in the fifties and sixties of last century), Federico Fellini and Alberto Sordi went often there for lunch says Paolo, the owner of the restaurant that was of his great grandmother.
The menu didn’t change from that time. You can still eat all the specialities of the traditional roman cuisine. Artichokes (carciofi) , porcini mushrooms and many other vegetables. Home made ravioli and gnocchi. Saltimbocca veal, straccetti beef, tripe, etc…everything “alla romana”.  And for the dessert, magnificent home made “torta di visciole”, sour cherries tart.
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An important detail of this especially pleasing restaurant: the servers are extremely nice as if they all participate to the unique secular experience of La Campana.
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