Tourist points of interest for Appartamento Ariele I
Here is a list of tourist attractions and points of interest that can
be reached from Appartamento Ariele I. Always remember
that there is more to be discovered than what's being shown!
The list also includes local businesses such as restaurants, tour and transfer companies, rental companies and others which have been recommended to us by past guests. We have made arrangements for you to obtain special discounts at some of the finest businesses in the area when you book your holiday house with us, so be sure to take advantage of it!
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to find out how the distances were calculated. Walking distances might be
significantly different than driving distances. Driving distances are
approximated whenever the roads near the property or the destination are
not open to traffic or not shown on maps.
Assisi is a Unesco World Heritage Site, as "it represents an ensemble of masterpieces of human creative genius, such as the Basilica of San Francesco, which have made it a fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the world". »
Piazza del Campidoglio, heart of Rome and seat of the local govern, was conceived by Michelangelo (1536) and might be considered maybe the highest representation of the Renaissance concept of "solemn piazza". »
Piazza di Spagna, the Spanish Steps, has been for ages the stopping and arrival point of horse-carts that, coming from Porta del Popolo (the northern gate of the city) carried the foreigners downtown. »
Gian Lorenzo Bernini worked to realize the "Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi" in Piazza Navona from 1648 to 1651, under commission of Pope Innocent X and the Pamphilj family. »
Ara Pacis Augustae is a Roman altar originally built in order to celebrate the Emperor Augustus and the peace after the bloody campaigns of Spain and Gallia. »
Caste Sant'Angelo was realized between 1937 and 1950 by two famous architects of the time - Piacentini and Spaccarelli – who decided to demolish all the surrounding medieval area in order to gain more space to build the huge new street. »
According to the legend, the origin of Collevecchio dates back to 1253, when a breve signed by Pope Innocent IV authorized the inhabitants of the marshy and infertile area of Muziano to move towards more salubrious high grounds. »
Perugia, one of the most fashionable, unforgettable and surely the largest medieval city in Italy, is situated on a 500 mt (1600 feet) hill overlooking the gorgeous expanses of Val d'Umbria. »
One of the highest point of Celio (the XIXth rione of Rome) houses the church of St Mary in Domnica, also known as Church of Navicella (bark) because of the lovely fountain just in front of the portico, shaped as a Roman bark: early XX century copy of a sixteenth-century finding. »
From 1974 the Restaurant Montecaruso proposes typical Lucane, Roman, and international recipes, home-made pasta, good selection of cheeses and salami from "Lucania". »