My Favorite Thing about April in Rome
What is it about April in Rome? What makes it the most perfect month to enjoy this incomparable city?
I can sum it up in one word, one smell, one color, one single flower dripping languidly from the vine.
Wisteria.
Or, in Italian, glicine.
Sunny wisteria in Trastevere. © Tiffany Parks
Wisteria Vicolo del Piede Trastevere. © Claudio Ianniello
Wisteria on a street lamp. © Claudio Ianniello
Wisteria in Trastevere. © Tiffany Parks
![Wisteria on Via Giulia. [Source]](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ca6ce9a5790a218472236e/58d3d0bc363d3c6f8f09b8fd/58d3d132363d3c6f8f09cb8b/1490276658733/c6ab6-wisteriaviagiuliabyfrattaglia.jpg?format=original)
Wisteria on Via Giulia. [Source]
![Wisteria at Rome's Hotel Raphael. [Source]](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ca6ce9a5790a218472236e/58d3d0bc363d3c6f8f09b8fd/58d3d133363d3c6f8f09cb9a/1490276659251/a3e11-wisteriaandvinesro-wererabbit.jpg?format=original)
Wisteria at Rome's Hotel Raphael. [Source]
![Wisteria in the Roman Forum. [Source]](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ca6ce9a5790a218472236e/58d3d0bc363d3c6f8f09b8fd/58d3d133363d3c6f8f09cba2/1490276659414/165e2-large_forum.jpg?format=original)
Wisteria in the Roman Forum. [Source]
![Wisteria in Rome. [Source]](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ca6ce9a5790a218472236e/58d3d0bc363d3c6f8f09b8fd/58d3d133363d3c6f8f09cbae/1490276659658/84442-wisteriaandcolumnbyhiddenside.jpg?format=original)
Wisteria in Rome. [Source]
This is the singular reason why April is my favorite month in Rome. (The fact that the weather is warm but not yet scorching is another reason, I must admit.) What is your favorite month here? And why? Do you, like me, have a weakness for this voluptuous and transient blossom?