Lucci Hotel Rome Blog

Every year it takes place into the magical Navona Square, or as they say in Rome, “Piazza Navona�, The Christmas fair.

All the “piazza� beyond the severe look out of the statues of Bernini in Rome, fills itself with hundreds of selling stands of sweets, toys, craft, nutty nougats, cotton candy, small and big nice things that you can buy as a present for yours friends or yours kids.

The square is a match sought place for kids and their daddies and mommies and everyone who would like to visit the “presepe�(manger) . The manger is another of Rome’s Cristmas tradition and in Navona it is located in the middle of the square, right next the fountain of the “rivers�. You can eat one fabulous ciambella (doughnut) or take a stroll down to one of the many bars or tea rooms to sit and take a nice cappuccino or even better a beautiful glass of red wine which along with the view and compelling atmosphere of all the rest accomplishes the very essence of Rome.

Walking all around the square you can see as well the Zampognari, Italian bagpipers dressed with typical clothed made with sheepskin and long dark cloaks and meanwhile the children are visiting Santa Claus, you can admire the works of the painter who sell their picture or do your portrait in an amazing holiday atmosphere.
This Christmas Rome market in fact brings you back the time when you were child with is colour and goodies smell.

6 January is the last day for the Rome Christmas market . It is the day o of the epiphany the festivity dedicated to smallest. According to the tradition the epiphany feast, coming down through the fireplace, door coal to the sweet children who have been bad to you and give sweeties to who have been good. As Italian people say: epiphany comes, all the festivities go.
Christmas market in Piazza Navona is every day from 6° th December to 6° th January.