Back in the Trevi neighborhood, or
rioni as they are called here, we climbed the three flights of stairs to our second floor room - ground floor is 0. We were staying at
La Piccola Maison and yes the room was small and cozy. David and I unpacked our things, uncorked the wine waiting for us courtesy of the management and soon dozed off for a nap.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rioni_of_Rome | | | |
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These maps show different iterations of the neighborhoods, with the names on the yellow one being more accurate. See our neighborhood marked Trevi.
However, the detailed map below more easily shows where we traveled this first day.
See the green area labeled Borghese and below it a purple area called
Spagna. To the right is a yellow unlabeled area. This is the location
of our hotel, just below the large
Villa Borghese gardens.
We left our hotel and went first to the Spanish Steps in the area marked Spagna. Then we walked south to the Trevi Fountain and then west to the Pantheon. We had lunch in the Navona area, walked though the Piazza Navona and then south to the Campo de' Fiori before returning to the hotel. Notice the train station (Roma Termini) just left of where it says San Lorenzo.
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http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/maps/rome.htm |
You can see it again here. Our hotel was in the Trevi neighborhood very near the charming
via Veneto. We walked north to the Spanish Steps, south to the Trevi Fountain and west to the Pantheon. We had lunch near the Piazza Navona - whoops, what happened to Campo de' Fiori? On this map it'd be near the bottom of the area marked Navona. And then we walked home. Whew, it was a long day...but these places are really pretty close together.
We woke up from our nap still full from lunch and decided to walk up the via Veneto hill. At the Villa Borghese gardens we sat on a bench. It was dusk. The park was beautiful but we lacked the ambition to explore it.
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A dining pavilion with its glass sides removed, outside a via Veneto hotel. http://wikitravel.org/en/File:Via_Veneto_restaurant.jpg |
As we came down the hill diners were being seated in the small glass pavilions, belonging to a hotel or restaurant, that line via Veneto. We ducked into a hotel lobby and ordered a drink. A group of Italian and American tourists sat nearby discussing their day. No dinner for us. We were ready for bed.
Next: A
yoga class in Rome, the
Colosseum and the
Monti neighborhood.
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