Two steps in the pages of a book

More than a quarter, an illustrated book. Strolling through the streets of central Rome, both for tourists and for residents, often means walking between images read and described in hundreds of tomes. Yet the neighborhood is not only content but also container.

Libraries, on the streets of the Trident, if they meet for every taste, alongside the big names in fashion and set in buildings which itself oozes history. Such as the library Borghese (route of Fontanella Borghese, 64) Silvia Ciattini, specializing in art, heraldry and allied with some botanical excursion, and (good) food. Or the Kappa in Piazza Borghese 6, two steps from the Faculty of Architecture, where the family of the same name (but with C instead of K) make available for future demiurges cities of tomorrow everything they need.

Dire Trident mean thinking in an international perspective. Abound for the English library, from the Lion Bookshop (Via dei Greci, 35), the oldest of its kind in Rome, founded after World War II in the Via del Babuino and spostatasi few steps further in the mid 90s the last century. Fiction of all types in the original language, but especially literature for children from 0 to 99 years The Board not only for the subjects of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, but also for those who wish to educate their children from infancy to multilingualism (not forgetting Italian). For fans of the genre, we also recommend English Bookshop (hike Ripetta, 248) and Anglo American Book (Via della Vite, 27).

Via di Ripetta hides (at number 239) a place totally dedicated to the element "water". The library The sea has everything you could want for those who enjoy browsing, from sailing to large motor boats. All within walking distance from the Tiber and Piazza del Popolo.

For those who do not want to give up the blockbuster book, then there are the inevitable Mondadori (via del Corso, 472) provided with each instrument of entertainment possible, study site included, and the historical Feltrinelli "artists" in Via del Babuino 39, which in 45 years of life has spawned some large part of the intelligentsia in the field of Italian cinema, art and literature, from Fellini to Ungaretti, from Pasolini to Gassman.

Finally, a little curiosity in Via dei Due Macelli 12, near the corner of Via del Tritone, there is a place that has made the history of Italy. Is the Royal Printing, founded in 1715 in Turin as publisher of the laws and edicts of the House of Savoy, before there was the Official Gazette. After 1861 has followed the fortunes of the ruling dynasty, migrating first to Florence and then to Rome, to the present location opened in 1936. Today is mainly a library specializing in the legal field, and provider of text and codes for the Court of Cassation and many prosecutors and appellate courts throughout Italy. But without losing the aroma of history that remains for ever, characteristic of the neighborhood where she continues to live.