When in Rome, here’s three spots for cat lovers!

We know there is many of us out there: cat lovers are passionate and they love to encounter cats when traveling.

We’re here to help you: when in Rome, cat colonies go hand in hand with beautiful historical places. Because cats only deserve the best.

Here are the 3 most incredible places to look for cats in Rome!

Largo Argentina

The one in Largo Argentina (between Piazza Venezia and the Pantheon) is one of the most famous cat sanctuaries in the world. If not only for its location: the Roman ruins of the Curia of Pompey, where Julius Caesar was killed. It is now home for more than a hundred cats that get sterilized and taken care by the volounteers association “Cats of Torre Argentina“. The cats mostly hangout near the temple that used to be dedicated to Aedes Fortunae Huiusce Diei, the Goddess of everyday’s Fortune.

Piramide Cestia

The Pyramid in Rome may not be among the most common turistic itineraries. That’s one of the reasons why this place is so special. The cat colony can actually be found in the cemetery adjacent the pyramid: the protestant cemetery is the resting place of important British and Italian public figures, and their tombs, often decorated with beautiful statues and special stones, are the hiding places of the cats, that peacefully live there enjoying the silence and the quiet of this magic corner.

Piazza Vittorio

In Piazza Vittorio next to the ruins of Mario’s triumphs, where the Magic Door that belonged to the villa of the Marquis of Palombara was placed, lives one of the protected cat colonies of the capital. A mystic place for mystic creatures. There are now almost 50 cats, protected by volounteers who also provided shelters and beds. Differently from the other colonies, here there is no association and it’s only up to private donations and the efforts of few volounteers that these cats are protected by the dangers of the city.

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