The following is a list of some itineraries and some interesting links that provide useful information on the capitals museums and principal attractions:
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Rome Tour:
You can reach the heart of the city centre from our Bed and Breakfasts… you can get to the centre and visit the Colosseum, Piazza Venezia and the Stazione Termini, the “Fori Imperiali”, Saint Peter’s, Via del Corso, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza di Spagna, as well as the piazza S. Giovanni, home to the customary May Day concert.
Piazza Navona has colourful stalls you can browse around and portrait artists who will whip up your likeness or that of a show business celebrity in a matter of minutes, or you eat an excellent home made ice-cream to the sound of Bernini’s fountain that dominates the square.
It is an easy trip down to the famed Testaccio district with its trattorias serving fine Roman cuisine or to the Trastevere district with its picturesque alleyways and Piazza Santa Maria, enlivened on summer evenings by the book shops and street performers such as jugglers, stilt walkers and fire eaters…
..the square has become a place of music and song, as well as somewhere for the students from all over Europe and America to meet for a beer (Rome’s American John Cabot University is nearby).
Trastevere is also the area where Rome’s summer festival is held, the Festa De’ Noantri, a bustling fair with candy stalls and children’s rides, as well as the Sunday Porta Portese market where a range of goods can be found at low prices, including the likes of T-shirts, CDs and antique furniture, all recalled in song by the popular Roman musician Claudio Baglioni…
The beautiful Roman castles are within easy reach of our B&Bs, favoured destinations for out-of-town excursions to local fetes with their flowers, wine tasting and local dishes. Frascati, Genzano, Castel Gandolfo lake and Ariccia, famous for its “porchetta”, the excellent roast pork on the spit.
No visitor to Rome can fail to be carried away on a wave of emotion and charmed by the pleasure of discovering the ancient secrets of a wonderful and welcoming city. Much has been written in praise of the beauties, grandeur, art, heritage and culture of this city that can claim to be a true “centre of the world” and of Christianity.
Every century for millennia, despite the fall of imperial Rome’s power, waves of peoples have added their civilisations and works to the city from where its influence, universality and grandeur has spread out to the world. The city is quite unique for the imposing perfection of its monuments and the sheer wealth and richness of its artistic heritage.
As the world’s number one heritage site, Rome was and still is, a patron of great artistic and cultural events of all kinds, and magnet to people from every corner of the Earth.
It is both on the one hand easy and on the other hand an almost impossible task to propose an ideal itinerary in the eternal city, so vast is the heritage that has been handed down to us. Rome offers us art, works of human genius and excellence and the utmost in creativity while proudly allowing all this to be discovered again and again.
It falls to us, however, to give some pointers to places and works that are particularly worth visiting so as to get a flavour of the city and start you on your own path of discovery.
It is a truly unique experience to walk far and wide through and among the streets, piazzas, parks and monuments of the historic city centre, splendid and welcoming in all its varied spaces. Its special and romantic atmosphere cannot fail to captivate. What could be more pleasant than to walk in Piazza Navona, pause at Bernini’s seventeenth century fountain and move along to the Pantheon, where an upward look is rewarded by displays of the most grandiose sights?
Rome has an excellent and modern public transport system, including the underground “metropolitana” that makes it easy to get around the whole area. A trip to see the supreme renaissance architecture of St. Peter’s basilica, must be regarded as mandatory, with its great square partly enclosed within the imposing arms of Bernini’s colonnade, as if proffering its embrace to all humanity. Inside we find the truly great masterpieces of the likes of Rafael, Michelangelo and many many others.
Pleasant clear sunlit days can be spent among Rome’s labyrinth of streets, piazzas, fountains and monuments of the city centre. Such spectacular sights as the Fori imperiali and the Colosseum are to be found at the start of, during and at the end of each itinerary of discovery. You can make your way from S.Giovanni in laterano to the Colosseum and from there along the whole thoroughfare to Piazza del Popolo, to turn at via Veneto to, via Condotti to find yourself at piazza di Spagna, at the fontana della Barcaccia, at the bottom the marvellous steps of Trinità dei monti. From the top of these you are treated to a wonderful city view before moving on to S. Luigi dei francesi and its wonderful paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Long walks along the river Tevere and its numerous bridges are also a must. These are just a few of the sights, taken more or less at random, that make Rome a truly unforgettable city.
Our B&Bs will be very happy to welcome you and ensure you have a homely base for a memorable experience of Rome.
