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The apartment is located in Trastevere. It’s perfect for 2 or 4 people and is located in a building, built in the 1898. Restructured keeping in mind the original characteristics, with the wonderful arch built with old bricks and the typical floor with “cementine hexagonal”. We have added new material as resin, use to model the functional bathroom and the iron to mould the kitchen area.
The apartment is located in a quiet little street, very close to S.Callisto Square, 50 meters from S.Maria Tratevere Church, one of the more important in Rome and one of the older in the world.Santa Maria in Trastevere is situated in the bottom of its beautiful homonymous square, in the centre and in the heart of this populated quarter, very near to Pantheon,Isola Tiberina, Fonatana di Trevi,Gianicolo with panoramic view of Roma, Piazza Navona, Bocca della Verità,San Pietro, S.Maria in Cosmedin, Campo dei Fiori, Fori imperiali, mercati traianei (Colonna Traiana), Largo Argentina, Musei Vaticani, Colosseo
Its construction was begun by the pope San Callisto I (217-222) and accomplished by the pope San Giulio I (337-352) then it was rebuilt by the pope Innocent II, Gregorio Papareschi (1130-1143).Afterwards the pope Clement XI (1702) and the pope Pious IX (1870)had intervented without undergoing substantial alterations.
According to the tradition the same day when Jesus was born in Bethlehem "a source of oil" gushed in the square that announced the Messiah and in this magic point, still indicated by a little round stone near the altar the church was realized which was also called Santa Maria Fons Olei.In the center of the square there is a fountain which existed from Augustus time.
In 1500 Bramante rebuilt it and moved it to the front of the church but Bernini in 1660 remade it putting back to its place where it stands now. The renaissance scenographic aspect of the fountain is in contrast with the ensemble of the quarter which glamour is in the "poor"architecture of its houses and the byrinth of the plebeian streets which surround the square |