45 min
45 min
3 · 19
6.7 / km²
5 - one reason for the Mixed verdict
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714 - one reason for the Mixed verdict
−33% vs city
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Mixed after dark
Piazza dell'Immacolata and the streets around Via dei Volsci are crowded until about 03:00, and street dealing in some side streets is a long-running local complaint. Rowdy rather than dangerous, but walk home on the main streets.
Staying in San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is the working-class district between Termini and the Verano cemetery, bombed in 1943 and since taken over by La Sapienza, Rome's biggest university. The official quartiere is larger, with the cemetery and the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, but the part anyone means is the grid around Piazza dell'Immacolata.
At night it is the city's student bar district: cheap beer, pizzerias, and a crowd that drinks in the street until late. For a young traveller on a budget it is the most fun you will have in Rome for the money, and Termini, with both metro lines and every train, is fifteen minutes on foot.
For anyone else it is hard to recommend. The walls are covered in graffiti, the streets are loud from Thursday to Saturday, there is no metro, and Piazza Navona is forty-five minutes away. The night-time crowd is rowdy rather than dangerous, but street dealing in some side streets is a long-running complaint.
What works
- Rome's best student bars and pizzerias, at student prices
- Fifteen minutes on foot to Termini for trains and both metro lines
- Cheap rooms that are not in the station blocks
- The basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura and the Verano cemetery
What does not
- Bars run to 02:00-03:00 and the drinking is on the street, under the windows
- Graffiti and litter everywhere; it looks rougher than it is
- No metro: trams 3 and 19, or the walk to Termini
- Forty-five minutes on foot to Piazza Navona
To the east of Termini Station, and near the first University of Rome "La Sapienza", is the San Lorenzo district, where you will find many pubs and clubs where university students and young Romans in their twenties spend their nights.Drinking in the open. Do what Romans (students in particular) do: buy a cheap beer in one of the countless bar around and just hang out or stroll, observing people and enjoying the mildness of a Roman evening.