Piazza Cavour

Advantages: Cinema, Church, local shopping an cafes.
Disadvantages: Not too much for tourists.

.... Piazza Cavour is a square in Rome, which is mostly residential and partially commercial. There are no real tourist attractions on Pizza Cavour, but it's possible that you might visit it for the annual book fair or pass through if you're doing a lot of walking in Rome. It's a useful route from the Vatican to the north eastern side of the city (Piazza del Popolo, Spanish Steps, Via del Corso etc). Where is it? It's located just off Via Crescenzo, which is a main street running from close to the Vatican Museum (Sistine Chapel) to Piazza Cavour. It's also just north of Via Triboniano which is the closest road running north from the bridge directly south of Piazza Cavour. If you're coming from the north of the city then you can reach by travelling south on the Via Lucrezio. What's On It? Well, not too much...

Ottavia 17.09.2008 (29.08.2008) · Read review
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Piazza del Popolo - A Brief Review

Advantages: Near to other attractions, great places to get lunch and coffee
Disadvantages: Out of the way a bit.

...Piazza del Popolo is north east of the city centre and located just above tourist attractions such the Spanish Steps and some great streets for shopping that the Italians frequently visit themselves. It's near to the mauseleum of Hadrian and just below a fantastic park, Borghese, that's great to eat lunch and relax in. The squares name is derrived from the modern Italian for 'the peoples square'. The church that stands on one side of the square, Santa Maria del Popolo takes it's name from the historical context of the name of the square. The square itself is very large and has various features. The obelisk in the centre has a fascinating history; in 10 BC Augustus brought it to Italy from Egypt. It's theme is Rameses the second. Prior to living in the square it was located in the Cirucs Massimo, which was where chariot racing took...

Ottavia 16.08.2008 · Read review
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PIAZZA SAN MARCO LIKE A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

Advantages: History Beauty and Style
Disadvantages: No Free Seats

...PIAZZA SAN MARCO. is like falling in love with a Beautiful Woman, when with her you can not stay long enough, when away you can not wait to return to her. You may speak to people who have only visited her on a Day trip, they will probably have not been impressed. They will only have seen her in the company of thousands. To see the Piazza at its best and Romantic you must Visit her late at night with your wife, husband, lover or just a friend. The sqaure seems to be your own, so beautifully lit. Which really highlights the shape of the square. When you enter from the Grand Canal DO NOT WALK BETWEEN the two columns, in the past you only passed between when being sent for execution. The Doges Palace is on your right, this is well worth a Tour, get there early to beat the queues. (Day Trippers normally decend on Venice about 09...

poshtroika 31.07.2007 · Read review
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La Piazza Italian Restaurant without style

Advantages: Good location
Disadvantages: Expensive,No lunch menu,rude staff, noisy,uncomfortable

...I m basing my review of La Piazza on my experience a few months ago. For those of you who are not too familiar with Edinburgh,this restaurant is in Shandwick Place,West end. It is ideally situated near many offices and the Financial district of Edinburgh. There are many Italian restaurants in Edinburgh-especially in the City Centre. I went here with a friend as she works nearby to it and was recommended it by colleagues. I had previously been to the restaurant about 5 years ago for a friend's birthday night outbut of course things have changed. The interior is a lot better and it hads been extensively refurbished. One major flaw about this restaurant is that even though they open all day from 12 until late,they do NOT offer a lunch menu -which is very annoying and disappointing. The cost of all the meals are not cheap either compared...

matty168 04.01.2008 · Read review
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Christmas Market in Piazza Navona

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...Piazza navona is one of the most beautiful squares in Rome. During th Christmas holidays it gets decked out and decorated with lights and its outlines are surrounded by stalls selling Christmas goods. It is lovely to go there and choose a variety of hand-crafted pieces for the Crib, or Christmas Tree decorations. On the morning of 6th January (the feast of the Epiphany) legend says that an old lady, dressed in rags and flying a broom, called La Befana, brings sweets and candies to children who were good during the past year, and coal to children who behaved mischievously. Children leave their sock out to be filled with goodies on the eve of January 6th. In Piazza Navona Christmas Market it is possible to buy lumps of 'charcoal' made of sugar to put in the children's sock to hide all the sweets and goodies below. I hope you will visit...

caterina 22.07.2000 · Read review
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The Keats Shelley Memorial

Advantages: Wonderful tribute to two great poets
Disadvantages: Few

...It might be considered to be less than poetic justice that two of England's most brilliant poets are not only buried on foreign soil but may be the only poets to whom a memorial house-which is now part of Roman Folklore-has been dedicated in a country other than their own. The two poets in question,John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley,are buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome whilst at No 26 Piazza di Spagna(the Spanish Steps),is the Keats-Shelley Memorial House. The hugely talented but very sick John Keats had gone to the Eternal City on account of his health-he suffered from tuberculosis,like other members of his family had.The last few months of his life were spent in Rome and it was at 26 Piazza di Spagna that the brilliant London-born poet died at the tender age of 25.A plaque identifies the house.,whose exterior is...

ashford 20.04.2001 · Read review
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A little taste of Italy in an unexpected place

Advantages: Great food, friendly staff, very good prices
Disadvantages: It's not the most typical place to find a good restaurant

...There are ciao members who believe I live entirely on expense account meals so to prove once again that I can get my flexible friend out of my wallet without surgery, here's another in my occasional series of value-for-money restaurants. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to La Piazza. I've known and loved La Piazza since it first opened back in the 1996. At that time I was living a short walk away in Urmston - near enough to stagger home after half a bottle of wine without worrying about needing to drive. However a job change took me away from the area until November last year and now I'm temporarily camping out in the spare bedroom of my old next-door neighbour during the week. Before Christmas we both realised that there was nothing we wanted present-wise so she offered to buy me dinner as my Christmas treat and I offered...

koshkha 04.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of La Piazza Restaurant, Urmston, Manchester

PIAZZA NOVONA FOUNTAINS TO DIE FOR

Advantages: Location.
Disadvantages: Breakfast

...We have stayed at the Hotel Navona on two occassions. Its Location would be hard to beat. You are only 1 minute from The Piazza navona one of Romes Busiest Piazzas and also Photogenic. The Hotel is found down a small side street. The entrance on occassions due to renovation has looked like a building site, other times looks quite inviting. The lobby is on the second Floor (no lifts in this one im afraid, but you are talking OLD BUILDINGs. The lobby is small but welcoming. i thinks as apartments come up for sale the Hotel buys them up and extends itself. Some rooms are QUAIT and Old fashioned, with a tiny bathroom in the wall. While if you can get rooms at the Top its very modern as they have been restored, they say Keats and Shelly stayed in the building, but you hear that of most places in Rome, they must have moved around a lot...

poshtroika 30.07.2007 · Read review
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Disappointing

Advantages: Bruschetta was nice
Disadvantages: Poor service, pizzas soggy

...If you fancy a nice pizza whilst out in Edinburgh I am sad to say La Piazza was a great disappointment. With a nice position on the road out of Edinburgh going towards the west of the city and out towards Glasgow or the Forth Road Bridge I stopped there for a pizza with a friend. On first entering the décor is nouveau Italiano with pictures representative of the Sistine Chapel frescos and the Piazza Navona in Rome. Whilst the front of the restaurant was empty the back was alive and busy and was vibrant. First impressions good. Beer at £2.50 a pint was good, bottles of Beck’s or Bud will set you back a hefty £2.10. Certainly discourages you from having too many, anyway it was lunchtime and there was work in the afternoon. The service was a little perfunctory. Definitely not Italian and not particularly friendly either...

polydeuces 11.03.2001 · Read review
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Keats' house - a real treat

Advantages: Fascinating, peaceful, quiet
Disadvantages: None

...This house is where Keats lived for the last few month of his life, trying to recover from TB. The house is now a museum, celebrating the life of Keats, Shelley and other writers from the time. The house is situated directly next to the Spanish Steps (Piazza di Spagna) in Rome, but many tourists miss it - the entrance is very discreet, and the exterior of the house is exactly the same as when Keats lived here, so perhaps this is not surprising. The house has a long history of famous architects, writers and artists who lodged here, including George Eliot, Shelley, Byron, the Brownings, Oscar Wilde and Joyce. It now contains a museum which celebrate not only the life of Shelley and Keats, but of other writers of the time. Objects include objects and manuscripts related to Shelley, Keats and Byron and other items including a poem...

e_l_parker 08.02.2001 · Read review
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