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Order Your Pizza Crisp

If Italy is home to gourmet pizzas and pastas, Rome is its heart. Besides its religious and architectural marvels, Rome is the place for authentic stone grilled pizzas. Walk down the pizza Navona and admire the marvelous fountains carved by Bernini while sitting in one of the numerous quaint pizzerias dotting the square. Try the classic, wafer thin, crispy Roman pizza and the hand cut prosciutto with foccacia at the da bafetto pizzeria. However, if you want the real thing, but easy on the pocket, head over the St Angelo bridge to panattoni that serves crisp pizzas made in wood burning ovens.

In fact, in Rome it’s hard to walk a block without encountering pizza in one form or another. You will see it in bakeries, usually made without cheese, either pizza Bianca (just olive oil and salt) or pizza rossa (with tomato sauce). There is also the pasta museum (Museo Nazionale delle Paste Alimentari) at piazza Scanderberg. The museum is entirely devoted to pasta—its history, production, nutritional values and consumption, and is spread through several rooms over two floors. And, don’t leave Rome without getting your hands on some unusually shaped (and eotic flavoured) pasta from a lively, no frills pasticceria.

Don’t miss: eating at a restaurant with aforno a legna (wood-burning oven)- a must for a good thin crust plate size pizza.

How to get there

All major airlines offer connections from all Indian metros.

Where to stay

Hotel Eden with rooms starting at Rs 105000 is a good option.

Contact the hotel at 0039 06478121 visit: www.hoteledenview.com

For budget accommodation, stay at hotel Pensione Papa Germano where tariffs begin from Rs

2100 per room, per night.

Contact 0039 06486919 visit: www.hotelpapagermano.it