Silvia's apartment
We lived in this pleasant home for 5 weeks, August to October. It does feel and function like a real home rather than a rented apartment, and Silvia has attended to every detail to make it comfortable and easy. Silvia was unfailingly helpful, easy to talk with, and eager to share her beautiful city with us.
The apartment building is on a wonderful, wide, pedestrian-only street --- you will really appreciate this after spending a day avoiding cars, motorcycles, bikes, buses, strollers, rolling suitcases, and people on the narrow, busy, normal streets and sidewalks. We loved the whole neighborhood. You are still in the historic center within where the 13th century city walls used to be --- it's a 16 minute walk to Piazza della Repubblica --- but away from the busy tourist areas.
The main bedroom is very quiet with the windows shut --- I am super-sensitive to even small sounds at night and I was never woken up once. The blue bathroom is down some steps from that bedroom. The main bathroom with the shower is next door --- very close. The loft bedroom with a window over the roof above the street is only slightly less quiet. Nice view of the synagogue dome out of the small window in the loft. Beds are comfortable.
We were extremely grateful for the AC in both bedrooms and in the main living space and for the mosquito screens in all the windows. I heard much complaining from fellow tourists whose apartments lacked these things. All the appliances work well --- there's even a dishwasher.
The kitchen is unusually functional and complete with kitchen tools --- everything you need to cook real dinners. The market is very close and the COOP supermarket is close. There's also a smaller Conad supermarket west of the apartment, plus all sorts of bakeries and places to eat. The apartment is above one great gelato shop and there's another even better one around the corner on Piazza Beccaria.
Just a few yards from the street door, on Piazza Beccaria, is the bus stop for the C2 and C3 electric mini-buses that drive to or near many of the museums, etc. Piazza Beccaria is one end-point of both of these circular bus routes (Leopolda is the other end-point), so there is always room on the bus. Of course, it's perfectly easy to walk almost anywhere you'd want to go in half an hour or less, but these buses are often pretty handy. Just a block or two away are more bus stops for the regular city buses. Download the ATAF bus route app.
Truly, you will be happier if you stay in this apartment than one in the middle of the heavily touristed zone or near the train station! And there is no better airbnb host than Silvia.