Walking through Rome’s streets provides a sensory overload of which we just can’t get enough! Even a short stroll challenges mind and body: while it’s challenging enough to stay upright on the uneven cobblestones, one must also look down to avoid stepping in something unpleasant while simultaneously looking up and around so as not to be hit by cars or by motorini.
As if that’s not enough, there are all those people and their beautiful (or wacky) outfits to admire, works of art and architecture that will stop you dead in your tracks, and a wealth of fragments attesting to Rome’s long history that are built into houses and shops or fenced off at the edge of the street.
If you can manage all that, you can find even more entertainment in the rich collection of streetside graffiti and pubblicita. Taking in all the ephemeral words and images written or pasted on buildings and billboards is one of our favorite hobbies.
We were especially pleased when we came upon the poster shown above. It’s old — a poster created in the run-up U.S. elections in November 2008 by an organization called US Citizens for Peace and Justice (that we very much admire). We imagine that since the election season, other signs and posters have covered it but have now fallen away, leaving us to ponder once again a message of eternal importance, “Hope is not a crime.”
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