This is a beautiful apartment: very spacious, light, calm, comfortable and a special atmosphere with elegant old furniture. It's a great (and busy) location, but when you shut the windows and shutters it is quiet and dark, perfect for the children sleeping. We particularly enjoyed the showers set into the courtyard facing windows (!), the view out over the street facing side down to the Forum, and the cool and calm atmosphere coming back in from the heat and dust of the city. The location is really great - it was easy to be very early in the morning to beat the crowds at the Colosseum, and we enjoyed afternoons/evenings in the backstreets of Monti with so many great food options and bohemian atmosphere. We appreciated the host's recommendation of the takeaway pasta bar almost just downstairs - we wouldn't have thought to go in because it looks nothing special, but it's freshly made and really excellent! We went back twice!