Testaccio is famous for night life, pubs, discos, restaurants, wine locals (Il Bucatino, Lo Scopettaro, Da Felice, Oio a casa mia, Agustarello, da Checchino, La Torricella, Osteria bottiglieria, Osteria degli Amici, da Remo, Nuovo Mondo Via Vespucci, Antico Forno Marucci Via Vespucci, Il Cantinone.)
In front of the house there is Piazza (Square) S. Maria Liberatrice with a children park.
Visit the famous Volpetti's delicatessen just a short walk from the Casa (in Via Marmorata) with its fantastic range of foodstuffs and its wonderful smells. The staff are great and will help you with your choices. Homemade delights such as Arancini, Supplì, Filetto di Baccalà are highly recommended.
On Sunday the famous Porta Portese market is only a few minutes stroll away with its massive stock of clothes, shoes, handbags, bric-a-brac, car parts, bikes and everything else you can think of.
If you are fortunate enough to be in town when the local team is at home, bus 280 from outside the apartment will drop you at the Stadio Olimpico. By the way, there is only one team in Rome as far as the Testaccio district is concerned. – ROMA team and not LAZIO team !
There are many local places to eat and the food is authentically Roman.
The area around Monte Testaccio is a hub for nightlife with many pubs, bars and clubs as well as nice restaurants nestling into the hill. There is also a busy cinema, The Greenwich and the Teatro Vittoria in the heart of Testaccio.
When you need to kick-start your day with coffee and a pastry, you can begin in the best pastry of the area LINARI in Via Zabaglia in front of the church (a bit in the left).
Casa Testaccio is a delightful base for a different kind of Roman holiday offering a chance to see beneath the crowded touristy areas (whilst having all that nearby if you want it) and allowing you to feel part of the local life of the city.

TRANSPORTS AND HOW TO ARRIVE AT CASA TESTACCIO
You can arrive
• OSTIENSE Train Station (departures/arrivals) from/to Fiumicino Airport Leonardo Da Vinci; there's also shuttle bus for Ciampino airport (low cost flights). Termini main train station is far about 10/15 min. by bus – metro – train.
• Subway line B “PIRAMIDE” ;
• Subway BEACH line “PORTA SAN PAOLO - PIRAMIDE” for Ostia beach (directly seaside get out at terminal Cristoforo Colombo or Ostia Antica for Roman Forum).
• TAXI (each taxi can take 4 people; the price is established by the law and it’s 48 €. From/to Fiumicino Airport and 30 €. from/to Ciampino Airport;
• PRIVATE TAXI from/to the Airport at the same price of a public taxi. You can choose this taxi if you are more of 4 people so with a Shuttle you arrive all together and easily because the driver will wait for you inside the airport (after customs doors) with a panel with your name. Go with him he takes you home without problems !!!
• BUS SHUTTLE: Daily connection with public transport between the airport and the railway station Roma Termini is carried out by bus companies ATRAL, COTRAL, SIT and TERRAVISION, parked in the appropriate places in front stalls “Aerostazione” International Departures.
• BUS LINES
 3 (Trastevere, Piramide, Circo Massimo, Colosseo, Fori Imperiali, la Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, Villa Borghese, Bioparco zoo);
 30 EXPRESS (bus super fast at 1 stop Subway Piramide and Ostiense Train Station, Bocca della Verità, at 2 Piazza Venezia, at 3 Largo Argentina and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, at 4 Piazza Navona and Senato della Repubblica, at 5 the area of Prati famous for shopping)
 280 (Piramide, Ostiense train Station, Isola Tiberina, Bocca della Verità, Trastevere, Lungotevere, Castel Sant’Angelo, Ara Pacis, Basilica di San Pietro, Piazza Cavour, Stadio Olimpico, area Prati)
 23 (Piramide, Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura, Basilica di San Pietro, Trastevere, Isola Tiberina, Bocca della Verità, Castel Sant’Angelo, Ara Pacis, area Prati)
 75 (Trastevere, Piramide, Circo Massimo, Colosseo, Fori Imperiali, Stazione Termini, Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, Monteverde, Gianicolo fantastic by night a great landscape!!!)
 83 (Piramide, Bocca della Verità, Circo Massimo, Teatro Marcello, Piazza Venezia, Via del Corso, Fontana di Trevi, Piazza di Spagna, Parlamento, Galleria Colonna, Via Veneto, Villa Borghese)
 170 (EUR, Viale Marconi very good shopping, Bocca della Verità, Piazza Venezia, Via Nazionale, Quirinale in which lives the President of the Republic and Scuderie del Quirinale, Stazione Termini)
 781 (area Magliana and Viale Marconi very good for shopping, Bocca della Verità, Piazza Venezia)
 716 (Bocca della Verità, Teatro Marcello, Piazza Venezia, Piramide, la Stazione and la Via Ostiense rich of pubs, night clubs and discos, la Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura, la Garbatella;
 673 (Piramide, la Stazione and Via Ostiense, il Porto Fluviale, la Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura, area Aventino, il Circo Massimo, le Terme di Caracalla, la Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano, Via Appia Nuova very good shopping);
 118 (Bocca della Verità, Aventino, Circo Massimo, Terme di Caracalla, Porta San Sebastiano, Appia Antica and Parco della Caffarella, Dominae Quo Vadis, Catacombe di San Callisto and others catacombs, Basilica di San Sebastiano, Tomba di Cecilia Metella, Fosse Ardeatine);
• BY CAR Go always city centre. PARKING: In most streets of Testaccio, public parking along the streets of the district is at an additional cost (1 €/hour). However, in the great Piazza Santa Maria Liberatrice and Via Giovanni Branca (right in front of the house) street parking is free. There is anyway a private and guarded parking at 100 mts from the house. See the website of romaparking

Rome, the eternal city
The eternal city is a unique place where the remains of a splendid past mingle with the peculiar personality of its people. Strolling through Rome is like visiting a museum: its monuments, squares, churches, fountains and the Roman Coliseum bear witness to the glorious battles between Roman gladiators.
All these sights are complemented by its friendly people, the reason why it is one of the world´s most-visited cities. Our House is located in one of the most authentic and charming areas of the Trastevere.
This traditional neighbourhood is still one of the city's prettiest and most typical, as well as being its nightlife and open-air theatre hub. It has beautiful squares, churches and historic side streets where you can lose yourself and discover the pure essence of Rome. What are you waiting for?
Come and discover this wonderful city.
Testaccio
Testaccio is the name of the twentieth district of Rome. The name comes from the so-called "mount" (Mons Testaceus): 35 meters of fragments of pottery (testae, in Latin), and various debris, accumulated over the centuries as remainders of the transport heading to the port of Ripa Grande (Emporium).
The Emporio port worked since Roman times, and was the landing point of goods and raw materials (primarily marble, grain, wine) that arrived by sea from the port of Ostia, went up the river on barges hauled in by buffaloes which in 1842 were replaced by steam trailers.
Over the centuries, the shards of amphorae, which were used to contain wheat and liquid foods during transport, accumulated in a hill, hence the name - ancient - of Monte Testaccio or Shards Mount (“Monte dei cocci”), and the choice - modern - of the amphora as a symbol of the district. The number of stacked jars is estimated at around 25 million.
The empty jars that had contained mostly oil were broken into pieces and arranged neatly to provide stability in a stepped pyramid and sprinkled with lime to prevent odors due to decomposition of organic residues.
The marbles, which gave the name to the street Marmorata that connects the port of Ripa with Porta San Paolo, were the ones the Romans continued to import from all over the Mediterranean sea till the end of the empire, and that with the decay of Rome remained unused in large quantities, “res nullius”, for centuries as open quarry of semi-finished products of value.
Until the restoration and urban redevelopment begun after 1870, which assigned this area and along the Ostiense down to the basilica of St. Paul to industrial activities and "heavy" services (railways, slaughterhouse, general markets, gas factory moved here from Circus Maximus), the area, despite being located inside the city walls, was populated by poor farmers and shepherds, subject to floods of the Tiber and infested by malaria, which was beginning at the gates of Rome.
Trastevere
The Trastevere is the ideal place for losing yourself in its colourful streets, squares and vast gardens, such as those of Julius Caesar, where apparently Cleopatra once lived. Once inhabited by craftsmen, fishermen and traders, it is now one of the city´s most characteristic neighbourhoods, where the visitor to our House can walk and look around.
The Coliseum and the Roman Forum
The Coliseum is a true Roman architectural marvel, with a capacity for 60,000 spectators and the symbol of the famous fights between gladiators and wild beasts. The Forum was the centre of the political, religious and commercial life of Ancient Rome. If you come to our hotel in Rome, you simply must visit the via Sacra [Sacred Road], once the site of religious processions and victory marches.
Piazza Navona and Fontana di Trevi
During your stay at our hotel in Rome, you must also visit the Baroque works. The Piazza Navona is one of the typical squares of Baroque Rome, with its ever-full terrace cafés. It boasts the Fountain of the Four Rivers, which represents the giants of the epoch: the River Plate, the Danube, the Ganges and the Nile. And visitors should not forgot to throw in the mandatory coin into the waters of the Fontana di Trevi to make sure that they will return to the Eternal City one day, where they will always have a place in our House.