'Little Italy' trusts its national team against Spain today

The stretch that goes between the streets Clerkenwell Road, Farringdon Road Y Rosebery Avenue, in the heart of London, it remains as the italian axis from the English capital. It's a little Little italy in the City. This is where the Italian migrants who came in search of a better future. They opened workshops Y restaurants. They left the roots of their traditions forever.

Today the area has changed a lot, the multiculturalism It has been tax, but you keep hearing talking Italian down the street. And of course you can chat with your people from the semifinal tonight at Wembley between Spain and Italy. Although it is a weekday weekday and people are on their own, they all know that an important match is being played in London and that the national team is there. azzurra immersed.

“We are from Peruggia”, they say Angela Y Alessandro while making natural pasta in a street stall. Like yours, there are many more. The Italian flag flutters in some, as in shop windows or buildings that are already famous. On a wall is remembered with a plaque that he lived there Giuseppe Mazzini, a key figure in the unification of Italy in the 19th century.

Century and a half. Among the London red bricks rises the St. Peter's church, considered as the lung and nerve center of the neighborhood. It's the first italian church created in London and was consecrated in 1863. “Spanish and Italians we are brothers, you have to play with humility and solidarity and may the best win“says Father Giuseppe. He does not want to appear in the photos, but he opens the door of the church to whoever asks.” love soccer. Whenever I watch the games I give instructions to the coach to remove one and put another … “, he says.

There are various restaurants in which power taste a good pasta or pizza: La Casetta, Fidelio Orchestra … The neighborhood driving school, Italian, of course, dates from 1965, although the most emblematic venue is a workshop, Chiappa, opened in 1864. Nearby is Terroni, a Italian products store. It can be bought from pasta or sausage to wine and typical sweets. The customers who enter are directed to Babacce, the employee who came from La Puglia, in perfect Italian. “Italy to win 2-0 and Chiesa will score“, he comments. Like him, the others in Little italy they trust their selection. Or in that of their parents and grandparents. In Italy, after all.