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Staying in Regola & Campo de' Fiori
Regola is the rione south of Corso Vittorio Emanuele: Campo de' Fiori with its morning market, Piazza Farnese and the French embassy behind it, Via Giulia running along the river, and the workshop streets in between. It is the part of the centre that still looks lived in rather than restored.
As a base it is close to ideal for a first or second visit. Piazza Navona is five minutes, the Ghetto and Trastevere ten, the Vatican twenty-five on foot along the river. The market puts fruit and cheese on your street in the morning, and Via Giulia at dusk is the quietest beautiful street in central Rome.
Two caveats, and the first is loud. Campo de' Fiori after about 22:00 is a drinking square - young crowds, spilled beer and noise until two, and a flat facing it will hear all of it. The restaurants directly on the square are priced for people who will not come back. Book the Farnese or Via Giulia side and both problems disappear.
What works
- Morning food market on Campo de' Fiori, six days a week
- About 5 minutes to Piazza Navona, 10 to the Ghetto and Trastevere
- Via Giulia and Piazza Farnese are quiet and genuinely beautiful
- Real workshops and shops rather than a restored film set
What does not
- Campo de' Fiori is a drinking square until 02:00, and it is loud
- Restaurants on the square itself are priced for one-time visitors
- No metro station; buses on Corso Vittorio and tram 8 nearby
- Expensive, and the cheap rooms are the ones facing the noise
On the other side of Corso Vittorio Emanuele are Piazza Farnese with the Palazzo of the same name (now the French Embassy) and two interesting fountains and the flower sellers at Campo dei Fiori, scene of Rome's executions in the old days.