There is a neighbourhood in Rome where the locals still call themselves

Tresteverini before they call themselves Roman.

And that tells you everything you need to know about this vibrant area

beloved by both locals and visitors.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns and villages,

mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of Bella Italia.

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes,

history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta.

If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there, you've come to the right place.

Ciao friends, welcome back to Untold Italy. I'm Katie Clark, the founder of Untold Italy,

and today we're revisiting one of my favorite episodes from the archive. It is a wander through Rome's Trastevite district with my friend Maria Pasquale. Maria is an award-winning food and travel writer and author of the books How to Be Italian

and since the original episode aired, Munga, How to Eat Your Way Around Italy.

A book I was proud to help her launch here in Melbourne, Australia.

I think it's now just over a year ago.

Maria lived in Trosteveree for over a decade and she knows this neighbourhood the way most of us know our own kitchen. Every bar, every cheese

shop, every cobblestone shortcut. In this episode, she walks us through what makes Trostevere's so

distinctly and stubbornly Roman. We talk about the market at Piazza San Cosamato,

the bar San Calisto, the cheer shop that has been open since the turn of the century,

and I'm not talking about the last century, I'm talking about the one before, and the

chataria worth queuing for. She also shares what daily life really looks like in this neighbourhood,

the passageata, the aperitivo, the cambio di staccione,

and why getting lost in its streets is the whole point.

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