At Via di Ponte Quattro Capi 16, in the Ripa district of Rome. The nearest station is No metro near. Tram 8 stops at Piazza Belli, across the bridge in Trastevere.

Which museums and sights are near Sora Lella?

Capitoline Museums is 450 m away, Pantheon is 850 m away, Colosseum is 1.2 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

What is Sora Lella known for?

The island, The cooking, Between two districts. The only restaurant on the Tiber Island, opened in 1959 by a Roman actress whose face the whole country knew.

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Sora Lella

Sora Lella was Elena Fabrizi, cook and film actress, everyone's idea of a Roman grandmother. Her trattoria is still on the island in the river, and still her family's.

The lane on the Tiber Island that leads from the Ponte Fabricio past Sora Lella. — Felice Gesuele, CC BY-SA 4.0

What it is: Trattoria
Opened: 1959
Area: Tiber Island
Nearest museum: Capitoline Museums, 450 m

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What Sora Lella is known for

The island
The Tiber Island is joined to the Ghetto by the oldest bridge in Rome still in use, the Ponte Fabricio of 62 BC. The restaurant is beside the medieval tower at the end of it.
The cooking
The old Roman kitchen, heavy and generous: amatriciana, oxtail, lamb, and the vegetables of the season.
Between two districts
The Ghetto is across one bridge, Trastevere across the other. It is the natural stop between them.

What to know

Opened in 1959
Run by the grandchildren of the founder
Book for the evening

Where Sora Lella is

Address

Via di Ponte Quattro Capi 16
00186 Rome, Italy

Nearest station

No metro near. Tram 8 stops at Piazza Belli, across the bridge in Trastevere

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

An actress's kitchen

Elena Fabrizi, sister of the actor Aldo Fabrizi, opened the trattoria in 1959 and cooked in it for the rest of her life, between one film and the next. She died in 1993. Her son and then his children kept it going.

Sora Lella: common questions

Where is Sora Lella?: At Via di Ponte Quattro Capi 16, in the Ripa district of Rome. The nearest station is No metro near. Tram 8 stops at Piazza Belli, across the bridge in Trastevere.
Which museums and sights are near Sora Lella?: Capitoline Museums is 450 m away, Pantheon is 850 m away, Colosseum is 1.2 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.
What is Sora Lella known for?: The island, The cooking, Between two districts. The only restaurant on the Tiber Island, opened in 1959 by a Roman actress whose face the whole country knew.
When did Sora Lella open?: In 1959. Opened in 1959.

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Rating from Google

4.1

4,220 ratings on Google

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