Normally, I walk on the old stone road when I go to Via Appia Antica. A few weeks back, I decided to follow the joggers and cyclists and go through the park off Via Caffarella.
It's a very pretty path passing various ruins and big open fields. At one point I started to hear (and smell) sheep.
Hard to believe I was only a few kilometers from the center of Rome.
9 comments:
i love the caffarella park. those sheep make ricotta!!! well, the shepherd makes the ricotta to be more precise. there are goats too and they prance around the fields.
Hmm. Pecore means sheep. So is pecorino romano cheese made with sheeps milk?
FYI, my word verification below is NESTE! How funny is that!
How lovely. I do know they smell yet I really love sheep. AND their cheese (yes Gibber, Pecorino is made with sheep's milk, YUM and Caprino with goat's ... double YUM).
katie - I missed the goats. I adore them (from afar).
gibber - yes. And it's one of my favorite cheeses!
paola - The problem is I like animals like cows, sheep and goats (not a big pig person), but I don't think I would actually want to live on a farm. heh
Sheep remind me of cheese too! beautiful picture.
I never did this when I lived in Rome, will have to the next time we make through there.
Grazie Gil!
Joanne, Via Appia Antica is one of my favorite places in Rome.
I still have a foto of the sheep stopping traffic near my aunt's apartment in Talenti. Every day, the sheep would come to graze in the field right near her house and when I was visiting, my grandmother and would sit and watch from the balcony. I don't know when they stopped but I'll always remember it...
claudia - The first time I heard the sheep on the Appia I was surprised. I didn't expect to see a big flock so close the Center.
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