The Eternal City is flushed in color – from the greys of the ancient ruins to the rainbow colors of the vespas as they speed by. The snow white of immense monuments and the verdant parks that surround these landmarks dance around the viewer like a frenzied tarantella.
My favorite colors of Rome come from the cultural elements that most people associate with ‘The Boot’: fashion and food.
I envy the palette of colors used for men’s dress shirts and sweaters in Italy. Various shades that can be found in a bubble gum machine. So fun! So vibrant! I always want to enter the male shops and beg them to carry the same hues in a women’s line but no luck. I’ll just have to continue my covetousness.
The second place where the crayon box appears is in every gelato case in the city. The primary colors are on display thanks to the many and mainly fruit sorbets
Lemon – yellow
Mandarin - orange
Strawberry-red
Pistachio – green
Blueberries – blue
Red Grape- purple
Whereas other flavors range in a continuum between black and white:
Dark chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Coffee
Hazelnut
Zabaione
Almond
Panna
Stracciatella (Vanilla Chip)
Vanilla
All of it pure deliciousness! It’s no wonder my eyes so often glaze over during all the visual excitement that is quotidian for all the Roman inhabitants.
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