18 January 2026 – Third Eco-Friendly Sunday

18 January 2026 – Third Eco-Friendly Sunday

18 January is the third Eco-Friendly Sunday of the 2025–2026 winter season, the first of 2026.

Farmers' markets are the star attraction on a day dedicated to agriculture and its strong links with environmental sustainability, the circular economy, high-quality local and short supply-chain production, food education, and solidarity projects.

In five city squares – Piazza dei Re di Roma, Piazza della Balduina, Largo Agosta, Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice and Piazza Farnese – from 9.30 am to 6 pm, visitors will find institutional stands and local farming businesses, along with meetings with biologists and nutritionists, workshops for children, and tasting sessions.

The stands and events are organised and animated by CIA – Agricoltori Italiani, Confagricoltura in collaboration with ITA Garibaldi, Coldiretti, Slow Food and ITA Sereni. Thanks to a protocol signed between the Assessorato and ENPAB (Ente Nazionale Previdenza Assistenza Biologi), biologists and nutritionists will be available at the institutional stand to provide citizens with valuable advice on healthy and balanced eating.

Programme highlights:

• Piazza dei Re di Roma
  In collaboration with CIA – Agricoltori Italiani and Mercati Contadini Roma e Castelli Romani, twenty stands will be set up, offering product sales and street food.
• Piazza della Balduina
  In collaboration with Coldiretti Lazio, fifteen stands will host the Campagna Amica farmers’ market, offering Roman citizens the opportunity to discover, taste and purchase the best agricultural products from Lazio.
• Piazza Farnese
  In collaboration with Confagricoltura, Agriturist Roma and ITA Garibaldi, a stand will offer tastings of typical products from the Roman countryside, as well as information presenting the activities of Confagricoltura and Agriturist Roma agricultural and agritourism businesses. The initiative aims to promote and protect Roman agriturismo, bringing local food and wine products into the city.
• Piazza di Santa Maria Liberatrice
  In collaboration with Slow Food Lazio and Mercato della Terra Regionale, thirty stands will offer product sales and street food tastings. The square will also host, in collaboration with Legacoop, the newly established craft brewery in the Quarticciolo district. A space dedicated to buying and enjoying good, clean and fair food, with experiential workshops for adults and children.
• Largo Agosta
  In this square, visitors will be able to purchase products created by students of the Istituto Tecnico Agrario Emilio Sereni.

On Sunday, 18 January, the ban on internal combustion engine vehicles in the ‘Fascia verde’ ZTL (restricted traffic zone) will be in effect from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

The next Ecological Sundays in 2026 will take place on 22 February and 29 March 2026.