BLACKBOOK La Piccola Londra is a single street made up of two rows of English-style town houses HERE COMES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ROME’S LITTLE LONDON The opening of the Casa Fabbrini Piccola Londra hotel is the key to unlocking the city’s undiscovered Flaminio district. BY LEE MARSHALL In the northern part of the Italian capital, there’s a strange and wonderful sight: a street that seems to have been copied and pasted from an entirely different city. Its name is Via Bernardo Celentano, but Romans call it La Piccola Londra, or Little London. With its pastelpainted two- or three-storey houses set back behind iron railings and globe-topped stone gateposts, it might have been beamed down from Pimlico or Notting Hill. The only real local nod is the typical Romangreen window shutters. » LORENZO PESCE 22 DEPARTURES-INTERNATIONAL.COM
