Tour of Trastevere before leaving Rome

Today, we woke up early and went on a VoiceMap tour of Trastevere - an area on the other side of Tiber river. It used to be a poor side of Rome, with many medieval buildings in bad state, but a couple of decades ago it started to become a hip local neighborhood with many shops and restaurants. We walked some beautiful streets with local butcher, cheese, wine, and bakery shops. We also stopped by at some churches. One was with stunning mosaics from the 11th century, and it had a sculpture of Saint Catherine. The story goes that Catherine was a devoted nun during Roman pagan times, propagating conversion to Christianity. Then she was captured and tortured by Roman soldiers and beheaded, but had to be beheaded several times and after her head was barely attached, she still lived for three days. Then some centuries later her body was found and this sculpture commemorates that. We learned a lot about various saints on this trip. It was great to wander a local non touristy neighborhood of Rome, and then we left to drive to the Adriatic side for our next encuentro.Read more