Trastevere apartment, Rome: Azalea - Tips and Area

Luxury 2BR / 2BA + Terrace vacation rental apartment in central Trastevere

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Rome accommodation #: 41
Area: Trastevere, Rome
Sleeps 6 people: 4 in bed/s + 2 in sofa bed/s
Price per night: € 290 - € 290

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Tips and Area

Food Shops:

Innocenzi: Via Natale del Grande, 31. Amongst the most characterful and delightfull food shops in Rome selling regional products (such as olive oils, breads, pastas and sauces from all over Italy) as well as staples for Indian, Thai, Japanese and Mexican cooking.

Restaurants:
Augusto: Piazza dé Renzi, 15 (06-5803798). North of P.S. Maria in Trastevere. Enjoy the daily pasta specials at lunch and the pollo arrosto con patate. The homemade desserts are wonderful. Dinner is chaotic, lunch features laid-back discussions between waiters and clientele. No reservations.

Fontanone: Piazza Trilussa, 46 (06-5817312). Directly opposite Ponte Sisto. Serves traditional Roman cuisine, including rigatoni cacio de pepe, with pecorino cheese and pepper. When you realize you’re paying partly for the location, remember the queues at San Callisto and console yourself with the renowned carciofi alla Romana.

Jaipur: Via S. Francesco a Ripa, 56 (06-5803992). Indian cuisine with typical Jaipur dishes can be found in the heart of Trastevere, near the church of San Francesco a Ripa. In this large restaurant which has an exotic Indian atmosphere, dishes include Kashimiri Pulao, spicy chicken marinated with herbs and Indian spices cooked in a typical terracotta oven, jinka tikka and vegetarian specialties.

Pizzerie:
Ai Marmi: Viale Trastevere, 53-59 (06- 5800919). You can find there the perfect Roman pizza: thin with a crispy crust. This place is popularly known as the obitorio, or "morgue," because of its Spartan interior, it brims with life in the evenings. Try the fried cod fillets and any of the pizzas. Dinner for two is about 30 euros.

Dar Poeta: Vicolo del Bologna, 45-46 (06-5880516). From Piazza S. Egidio, head down V. della Scala and turn right. Hardly a tourist in sight. Eighteen types of bruschetta and unusual pizzas amid the old favourites. Save room for the fantastic Calzone filled with Nutella.

San Callisto: Piazza S. Calisto, 9a – Off S. Maria in Trastevere. Amongst the best pizza in Rome: shame about the service and the long, long, long waits for a table. Gorgeous thin crust pizzas so large they hang off the plates. The bruschetta alone is worth a postcard home.

Pubs:
Enoteca Trastevere: Via della Lungaretta, 86 (06-588565). Follow the crowds wandering the narrow streets: you’re bound to find something.

Ombre Rosse Caffè: Piazza Sant’Egidio, 12. A mellow place to sit outside and people watch. Wine by glass, cocktails, pint of beer.

General overview of the area: Trastevere – The most popular and the most Roman of all the districts in Rome. Trastevere refers either to its trans Tevere (across the Tiber) location and has a per se Roman vibrance all its own. The "Trasteverini" claim to be descendants of the purest Roman population – Romani dé Roma (Romans from Rome). Some residents even claim never to have crossed the river.

Trastevere, amongst Rome’s most charming neighborhood, and certainly its most entertaining to visit, is south of the Vatican and west , across the Tiber from the Centro Storico. Viale Trastevere runs across Ponte Garibaldi all the way to Largo Argentina and C. Vittorio Emanuele II and is the main road of the neighbourhood. Most of the Trastevere’s points of interest lie near this street, and not far from the river. Between Trastevere and the Vatican is the exclusive Janiculum Hill, or the Gianicolo”. Trastevere is home to trendy pubs, pizza joints, and a loud bohemian population. By day, the cobblestone alleys are quite but at night hippy expats add their voices into the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. You may experience trouble in finding an outside table without reservation.

Not to be missed:

Sites and Monuments:

Santa Maria in Trastevere ** - This august basilica rises up in the heart of Trastevere, on the square of the same name decorated by a XVII cent. fountain and dominated by the fine Place of S. Calisto (XVII cent.). This was the first church in Rome to be dedicated to Virgin Mary, the floorplan and wall structure of Santa Maria in Trastevere dates back to the 340s AD though this basilica has been added onto multiple times over the centuries. The present construction dates from 1130-43. The front, adorned with XII and XIII cent. Mosaics and fine Romanesque bell-tower is reached via a portico under which are various marble and funeral tablets.
The interior has a nave and two aisles on large ancient trabeated granite columns, a Cosmatesque pavement and a rich wooden roof to a designed by Domenichino (1617). In the Presbitery, closed by a marble surround, a mark indicates the place where, according to legend, oil spurted out on the day of Christ’s birth. The apse features gorgeous, large and important mosaics by Pietro Cavallini * dating back 1140. Though this structure dates from the 12^th centur, an earlier basilica existed on the site under Calixtus in the 3^rd century. The mosaics of the Virgin and the ten saintly women lining the exterior give way to a sea of gold and marble inside. The 12^th-century mosaics in the apse and the chancel arch depict Jesus, Mary, and a bev of saints and popes in rich Byzantine detail.

The museum of Roman Folklore and the Romanesque Poets, is in the Piazza Sant’Egidio, with part of the collection previously hosted in the Braschi Palace.

Piazza Trilussa. Beside the Tiber at the end of the fine Sixtus Bridge, rebuilt by Baccio Pontelli under Sixtus IV (1474); it has a large XVI cent. Fountain designed by G. Fontana and, in a corner among the plants, the monument to Trilussa, the Romanesque poet. At n. 20, Via S. Dorotea is the famous House of Baker Girl, the beautiful girl of the people, daughter of a baker, who was loved by Raphael.

Via della Lungara – Long straight road of Renaissance Rome, opened under Julius II, between the Septimius Gate in the Aurelian wall and the S. Spirito Gate, by A. Sangallo the Younger (1540). Palazzo Corsini is at n. 10, and in front of it the famous Farnesina.

Palazzo Corsini * (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica) - The Palace was rebuilt by F. Fuga in 1732 in austere Baroque form and is now the headquarter of Accademia dei Lincei, famous cultural institute founded in 1603. The 1^st floor of the palace while awaiting the definite transfer to the Barberini palace, houses part of National Gallery collection comprising a fine and valuable collection of Italian and foreign works of the XVII and XVIII cents.: paintings by Caravaggio, G. Reni, Guercino, Canaletto, Rubens and van Dyck.

Farnesina ** - The Villa, one of the architectural jewels of the Renaissance, all grace and harmony, was built by Francesco Peruzzi for the Senese banker Agostino Chigi, who received Popes, cardinals, princes and artists there; in 1580 it passed to the Farnese family. This a delighful little Renaissance villa along the banks of theTiber and has frescoes by Rapahael, Peruzzi and Sodoma and is in general a very pleasant place to be. Via della Lungara, 230.

S. Pietro in Montorio * - The Church of St. Peter is placed where, according to tradition, St. Peter was crucified, and was rebuilt in simple Renaissance form perhaps by Baccio Pontelli (XV cent.).
The interior, a single nave with chapels and niches, contains various works of art: in the 1^stTempietto of Bramante **, an elegant circular building with an outer ring of columns and cupola, of classica simplicity and monumentality (1502). A hole in the chapel below is said to be where the cross of St. Peter was fixed.
chapel on the r., Flagellation, by Sebastiano del Piombo; in the 4st chapel L., Deposition, by the Caravaggio-esque Dirck van Baburen (1617). From the square, panorama * of Rome. Built on the spot once believed to be the site os St. Peter’s upside-down crucifixion, the biggest draw of the Church of S. Pietro in Montorio is a masterly Flagellazione di Gesu, painted on slate by Sebastiano del Piombo from designs by Michelangelo. The Church also contains the tombs of Irish noblemen, exiles persecuted by English Protestants. Next door in the center of a small courtyard is the stunning Template of Bramante. A combination of Renaissance and Classical architecture, it provided the inspiration for the larger dome of St. Peter’s.

Passeggiata del Gianicolo * - After the Pincio, this is the most beautiful and frequented walk in Rome, famous, above all for the splendid panorama it offers. Before the entrance to the park is the Paola Fountain of the time of Paul V, with a majestic display of architecture by F. Ponzio and G. Fontana. An avenue leads to the vast square, Piazzale del Gianicolo, the middle dominated by the equestrian statue of Garibaldi, by E. Gallori (1895), and from the terrace of which, a magnificent panorama * of the city can be enjoyed. Continuing down the avenue one meets the monument to Anita Garibaldi (1932) and comes out into the opening with the Faro della Vittoria. This gives the most complete panorama ** of the city, which can be seen spread out from St. Peter’s to he Villa Borghese, to St. Mary Major and St. John in the Lateran, and the Aventin. The slope steepens; near a turning is the trunk of the Tasso Oak which was struck by lightning, under whose shade the poet used to sit. The Church of St. Onofrius is near a hospital just before the end of the walk.

Botanical Garden – Filled with well-labeled specimens of trees and flowers, the gardens remain green and luxuriant even when the rest of Rome is dull and brown. The remarkable assemblage of flora stretches from valleys of ferns through groves of bamboo to a hilltop Japanise Garden. Of interest are the garden of roses cultivated during the Baroque period in Rome, containing the two founding bushes from which all domesticated Italian roses supposedly have sprung, and the stellar Garden for the Blind, a star-shaped garden of various plants labelled in Braille.

S. Onofrio – Rises picturesquely at the top of a panoramic flight of steps with a lovely terrace on the left. It was founde in 1419 and altered. Three Domenichino frescoes are under the portico on the r. The interior has an Annuncation, an early work by Antoniazzo Romano (1^st chapel r.) and frescoes by Peruzzi (1503), others in the style of Pinturicchio in the polygonal apse. In the adjoining CONVENT Torquato Tasso died in 1595; charming cloister with portico and loggia. The small Tassiano Museum is in the rooms occupied by the Ordine Equestre del Sepolcro di Gerusalemme with relicts, editions and translations and the tombstone of the poet (in another room, a lunette with the Madonna and Child and donors, attributed to Boltraffio, 1513).

Pubs:
Enoteca Trastevere: Via della Lungaretta, 86 (06-588565). Follow the crowds wandering the narrow streets: you’re bound to find something.

Ombre Rosse Caffè: Piazza Sant’Egidio, 12. A mellow place to sit outside and people watch. Wine by glass, cocktails, pint of beer.

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