Campo de Fiori apartment, Rome: Arco Acetari - Tips and Area

Delightful 1BR / 1BA + Terrace vacation rental apartment few steps away from Campo dè Fiori area

Tips and Area

The Arco Acetari vacation rental apartment is in a small, cosy little square, one minute away from Piazza Campo dè Fiori, traditionally famous for its daily, colourful, market.

From the apartment one could walk everywhere however, if you want to experience something different you can take the cute electric No. 116 bus that hurtles through the historic centre!

For Shopping:

For notable shoes stores: Nuyorica (Piazza della Pollarola, 36-37; tel. +39-06-68891243). Rome’s hippest shoe shop stocks international designers, exquisite and expensive. Store for unique shoes that wouldn’t look out of place in a design museum...

Borini (Via dei Pettinari, 86-7). Family business sells good solid shoes made to unique designs in its own workshop.

For clothes stores: go to Via del Governo Vecchio a tiny street that is right accross Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Where all the new trendiest designers want to open a shop.

Full of inviting storefronts stand shoulder to shoulder, but unlike much of the city, there’s an absence of big labels of the Via Condotti. Small fancy boutiques that tempt a specific kind of shopper — the young, trendy, affluent kind.

You will find stores like S.B.U, Luna & L’Altra (Piazza Pasquino, 76; tel. +39-06-6880-4995), Josephine de Huertas & Company (Via del Governo Vecchio, 68; tel. +39-06-687-6586), which sells bright, irreverent shirt dresses and candy-hued blouse. They are also the exclusive seller of Paul Smith Women in Italy. Check out Arsenale (Via del Governo Vecchio, 64; tel.+39-06-686-1380) for something elegant. Structured gowns and floor-length skirts made by its owner, Patrizia Pieroni, (recently on sale for 310 euros) look more like sculpture than something you’d wear. Visit then Paola Frani (Via del Governo Vecchio, 33; tel. +39-06-68301537), a designer who made a name for herself with girlie tops and floral dresses.

For notable nonclothing stores check: Alchemilla (Via del Governo Vecchio, 11; tel. +39-06-6871163), which feels like Takashimaya in miniature with its small, chic silk flowers, and Utilefutile (Via del Governo Vecchio, 20/a; tel. +39-06-68809488) a place for huge, funky stone rings (from 35 euros) and useless but clever novelty handbags (from 40 euros). For a very special travel bookstore - full of atmosphere - don’t miss La Libreria del Viaggiatore (Via del Pellegrino, 78).

After shopping:

Restaurants:

Al Bric: Via del Pellegrino, 51 (tel. +39-06-6879533). This bistro wine bar/trattoria - just off Campo de’ Fiori - is full of old world character, from the vaulted ceiling to the walls, decorated with wine labels. Bi-frontal windows, open to passing foot-traffic, display an incomparable selection of French and Italian cheeses, home-made grissini (bread sticks), foie gras, patè and a list of French and Italian wines selected by owner Roberto Marchetti. The menu features unusual flavor combinations and inventive dishes, such as Roman pecorino cheese paired with chestnuts in a maccheroni sauce, or sword fish Strogonoff seasoned with thyme, artichoke charlotte with warm chèvre cheese or the pappardelle (wide egg noodles) with a pinot noir and duck sauce. Among the divine desserts, don’t miss a confection of chestnuts with cinnamon cream. Fresh ingredients are a must at Al Bric and you can taste it in

Cul de Sac: Piazza Pasquino, 73 tel. +39-06-68801094. Popular wine bar - near Piazza Navona - is among the city’s oldest enoteche and a book-length selection of wines. Food is eclectic, ranging from a huge assortment of Italian meats and cheeses (try the delicious lonza, cured pork loin, or speck, a northern Italian smoked prosciutto) to various Mediterranean dishes, including delicious baba ghanoush, a tasty Greek salad, and a spectacular wild boar pâté. Outside tables get crowded fast, so arrive early, or come late, as they serve until about 1 AM. 

Ditirambo: Piazza della Cancelleria, 74-75 (tel. +39-06-6871626). Creative, modern Italian cooking in a warm atmosphere. They serve homemade innovative pasta with tasty sauces, stuffed radicchio, tarte tatin and millefoglie with muscat-flavoured zabaione.

Hosteria del Pesce: Via di Monserrato 25c (tel. +39-06.686 5617). Since opening in 2001, Hosteria del Pesce has been widely considered the best seafood restaurant in Rome. The fish is incredibly fresh and deliciously prepared. Brothers Johnny and Giuliano Micalusi use only the day’s catch brought in each morning from nearby Terracina. It’s displayed on beds of ice, giving you a preview of the menu as you enter. On the downside, it’s expensive; the service can be a tad on the indifferent side; the place is usually packed; you can wait for your table even with a reservation; and the founding chef, Franco, recently left to start his own restaurant, La Lampara, (Via Pie di Marmo 36). Still, the Hosteria del Pesce is expanding, with a sister restaurant in Terracina and another opening in London.

Roscioli: Via dei Giubbonari 21-22/a (tel. +39-06.687 5287). For decades, Marco Roscioli has produced some of the best bread and white pizza in Rome (Panificio Roscioli, via dei Chiavari 34). Now sons Pierluigi and Alessandro have opened a modern wine bar and gourmet shop in nearby Via Giubbonari with a small restaurant in the back. At the tables, you can sample any of the offerings from the spectacular selection of cheese, hams and salamis, oils and vinegars offered at the counter in front, or order one of the specialties prepared in the kitchen. Open for lunch, dinner and snacks. Reservations at dinner a must.