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Viale di Trastevere
00153 Rome
Italy -
+39 06 488 991
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Neighborhood :
Trastevere - Testaccio - Aventino - Gianicolo
It is strange to think that this area of Rome was originally built to be a city port where storehouses held goods at the time of Augustus and continued to do so until the end of the 19th Century. Trastevere then became a downmarket residential quarter and has now developed into a very desirable quarter. The heart of the district is Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere with its lovely church, a 17th-century palazzo and a fountain in the middle which is probably Rome's oldest, having been designed by architects such as Bernini, Fontana and Della Porta. There are still some well-conserved medieval houses. On Sunday mornings, you can visit the 7th Corte dei Vigili in Via dei Salumi, and if you enter the guards' rooms, you will see grafitti on the walls written by Roman soldiers who served the emperors from Septimus Severus to Caracalla, in addition to notations of their guard duty.
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“A "must do " when in Rome”
Put this place on your list of "must do's" in Rome. My Husband and I went at night as our hotel (The Forty Seven) was just over the bridge. Thi...
“Wonderful place out of the hordes of tourists”
Trastevere is close enough to the tourist attractions to walk (or hop a tram), yet it is out of the hordes of tourists. It is warm and inviting...
“What a neat place!”
We stayed in a little apartment for a week and had the best time! We arrived just as the wild strawberries were making their appearance at dinn...
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