It is necessary to fall deeply in love with Rome to remember the Tiber, to recognise it as the blood that runs in the city’s veins.

“The Seine flows into the English Channel, the Tiber into the Tyrrhenian Sea, and therefore while one flows north, the other flows south. This is why the rive gauche of Rome, in the political sense, is geographically speaking la rive droite. And Trastevere, which embodies the intellectual, artistic and bohemian district of the city – the equivalent of Saint Germain in Paris, located on the left of the river Seine – is, instead on the right hand side of the Tiber.” Over and under its bridges, in the company of artists and tramps, Sandra Petrignani listens to the intimate stories brought by the river and embarks on a pilgrimage of the masterly, hidden beauty of Rome.