Tiziana'a apartment was the very best choice I could ever have made for my stay in Rome. I was teaching a workshop just around the corner from her place, and then added a few days of holidays.
The apartment is beautiful, superclean, cosy, well equipped and exceptionally quiet, because it is located in a dead-end road. The roof terrace is really really nice - I wish I could have used it more... You can feel that this apartment was made to live in, you will feel at home immediately. Tiziana and her husband made me feel very welcome, and I also felt I could call them about whatever I need.
The area is a nice residential area of the district of Pignieto, and Tiziana is providing her guests with extremely useful information about where to eat, where to buy good food etc.
Highly highly recommended! I hope I can stay at Tinziana's place again.
For discovering Rome, I preferred to use bus no. 81 (it passes many of the big sites) and tram lines (5, 14) from the stop Prenestina/Giussano, rather than the bus and local train from Alessi (on the other side, Via Casilina). Another good alternative is to walk to the metro station Pignieto, take the metro to Lodi and then bus no. 51, also a great line, taking you straight to Piazzale Venezia or Via del Corso.