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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 ... Read review
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Advantages: Cinema, Church, local shopping an cafes. Disadvantages: Not too much for tourists.
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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 ... ...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 ... more
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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 for tourists but there are some attractions here. There's a great big statue of Camillo Benso di Cavour, who was a Piedmontese statesman instrumental in unifying a previously divided Italy, during the 19th Century. It's fairly imposing and impressive, as far as statues go but it's just in the middle of this square - not an attraction or a reason to visit it. Most tourist attractions about this period of time, including Cavour, are in the centre of the city. Il Vitoriano for example, houses the Risorgimento exhibit which displays some of the history of Italian unification.
I was quite excited about seeing a big statue of Cavour, but that's because I'm sad. I don't think there are too many others that would be as bothered about it. I didn't plan to go there just for this reason alone. I was planning how to get around the city in order to show my fiancé the sights of Rome, in the best way possible. I happened to want to get from the Vatican museum to Hadrian's mausoleum, on to the Spanish Steps and Via del Corso, eventually ending up seeing all the little streets and looping back around into the main city centre, by heading south. It was certainly a good route to take and I did think to myself hang on a second, I can go through Piazza Cavour.
Other than the monument, there is the Chiesa Valdese, which is an attractive church that I've haven't been in so cannot comment much further on.
There's also the Teatro Adriano, which is the Adriano Theatre; a cinema which was opened on what was Rome's oldest theatre. The cinema has nine rooms screening films, some of which are really large. There are two bars (in an American style) and plenty of video games to keep the kids amused. You can book tickets over the phone as well, so it's fairly accommodating. You'd just need to call 06 36004988 to do so. New release Hollywood and Italian films can be seen here.
Piazza Cavour itself has plenty of palm trees and lots of foliage. There's a sort of green, with a gravelled centre and some benches, but it didn't look all that appealing when I was last there. There was building work around the statue of Cavour, which meant lots of metal 'walls', scaffolding and a big pit around the monument. But now that's gone I'm sure it's improved tenfold.
Since its move from Castel Sant'Angelo, the book annual book fair which is now held on Piazza Cavour has improved its public image and popularity. It's attended by important and influential Italian publishers and features specialist book shops. Other activities such as children's story time and drama workshops make this an all round entertaining visit for the family. Famous authors attend for signings and meet 'n greet sessions. Debates about the latest books, literary theories and authors keep the audience entertained and intellectually stimulated! Even though it's a book festival, they show cabarets, performances and even films.
From the square you can walk to great shopping areas such as the local markets and cafes to the west and the more notorious shopping areas to the east (such as Via del Corso, Via dei Condotti, Via Borgognona and Piazza di Spagna).
Being around this area will give a better understanding of how the people in the centre of Rome live. There's a lot to be said for this part of the city and I'd certainly revisit these places before fighting my way through popular tourist attractions. But obviously, this is probably because I've seen these things many times before.
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 PiazzaCavour, 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 by ...
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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 PiazzaCavour, 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 ...
From_The_Continent 22.03.2001 (24.03.2001)
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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, PiazzaCavour, Piazza Popolo and Hadrians mausoleum. Once you've walked to that part it's then minutes down to Trevi Fountain ...
Ottavia 29.08.2008 (26.08.2008)
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