The Portico d'Ottavia is the main street of the Jewish quarter, lively and buzzing with people, but with no motorized traffic. It is very close to many points of interest and to trams and busses and taxi stops (Lago Torre Argentina, Piazza Venezia). My initial concern was noise, but this was mostly a non-issue. The restaurants start closing around 11, and the place will be pretty quiet by 12:00: no loud bars. The windows seal out the noise very well, with one exception. Anyone sleeping in the front will hear, in the morning, the recycling trucks dropping bins of glass into their steel beds. Nothing known to science can insulate against this. However, in the central bedroom, even this was not an issue.