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, ...
...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 for tourists but there are some attractions here. There's a great big statue of Camillo Benso di Cavour, who was a Piedmontese statesman ... Read review

Advantages: nice scenery & architecture, fine cuisine, great shops, very relaxing place
Disadvantages: nothing REALLY spectacular in a country full of attractions

...streets and alleys which are filled with small shops, many of them fashion outlets of famous Italian designers. I find Como most enjoyable around its squares - it is beautiful to sit over a cappuccino and a good book on Piazza Cavour, Piazza Volta or Piazza del Duomo, and look at the picturesque classicist facades, or if you prefer, at the no less picturesque Italian Bellas who pass by. Como is mainly classicist in architecture. The whole seaside is covered by palaces built in the 18th century, each of them fantastic to look at and a dream to live in - many of them are now top hotels. An important sight is the Tempio Volta, a museum for the physicist Alessandro Volta who was born in Como. There are also a couple of buildings in romanic architecture, including San Fedele Basilica and Palazio Broletto, a former court hall. The cathedral (Duomo... Read review

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Advantages: Location, space, staff are friendly, air con
Disadvantages: None

...hop off the bus and walk a short distance to your hotel. I've stayed elsewhere in Rome and am in the habit of wearing unsuitable footwear and I can safely say that the Emmaus' location was a lifesaver! Also you can pop back to the hotel for a rest as we did on one occassion. Ordinary busses run from the end of the street facing the Vatican, these are frequent and less expensive. As I've said it's very close to the Vatican, but other sights are accessable easily. For example you can walk to the river and cross the bridge to get access to tourist spots. It's probably a bit too far for most sights on this side of the river. However you can walk, with ease, to the Sistene Chapel and from there to the Spanish Steps, Piazza Cavour, Piazza Popolo and Hadrians mausoleum. Once you've walked to that part it's then minutes down to Trevi Fountain... Read review

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Advantages: very cute city on the lake
Disadvantages: lot's of traffic

...Como is a beautiful city on the lake. You can easy reach Como from Milan by train in less then an hour or, if you are coming from North Europe, Como is the first city across the border with Switzerland. Como downtown is very cute and full of historical monuments. Only a couple of minutes by walk from Piazza Cavour, the main square of the city, near the lake, you can arrive in Piazza del Duomo where you can visit the Cathedral. An other very good and very ancient square is Piazza San Fedele, with the San Fedele Church. It's only 10 minutes by walk from the Cathedral. Como is also known as "silk city" because there are a lot of silk factory. If you want buy silk and save money, you can go to some Silk Outlet around the city. If you like to walk, you can easily visit Como by walk. If the weather is good, you can go to Brunate... Read review

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