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18.8 / km²
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Staying in Ludovisi & Via Veneto
Ludovisi is the hillside above Piazza Barberini: Via Vittorio Veneto curving up to the Porta Pinciana, the American embassy, the Capuchin crypt, and a row of five-star hotels built when this was the centre of European café society.
What you get is space and service. These are the largest rooms in central Rome, the Villa Borghese gardens start at the top of the street, Barberini and Spagna are both on metro A, and the Spanish Steps are ten minutes downhill. For a stay where the hotel is part of the trip, this is the address.
What you do not get is Rome. La Dolce Vita finished in 1960 and Via Veneto has been coasting on it ever since - the pavement cafés are priced for the association and filled by people paying for it, the street is a traffic artery, and the district has no ordinary life in it at all. Everything you actually came to see is a walk downhill and a climb back. Book it for the room; do not expect the film.
What works
- The largest, best-serviced rooms in central Rome
- Villa Borghese and its gallery start at the top of the street
- Barberini and Spagna on metro A, Spanish Steps ten minutes downhill
- Quiet and safe at night - embassies and hotels, nothing rowdy
What does not
- The most expensive rooms in the city, by a distance
- Via Veneto trades on a film from 1960 and prices accordingly
- No ordinary neighbourhood life: no market, no local restaurants
- It is a hill, and everything you came for is at the bottom of it
Via Veneto went into a period of decline in the 1980s but has returned to popularity and the roadside cafes are the place to be seen if you are into that sort of thing.Film enthusiasts will want to visit Via Veneto (Via Vittorio Veneto) in the Modern Centre, scene for much of Fellini's La Dolce Vita.