The apartment location is absolutely perfect!! Steps from the Duomo and many delicious restaurants, cafes and wonderful shops. The apartment is spacious and there is air-conditioning, which is perfect for the hot month of August! The caveat, is that the air-conditioning is only in the second living room and one bedroom. Which was not enough to cool the entire apartment. And, there are not additional fans in the apartment.
Also, getting into the building was not easy. As the door is old and heavy, one has to literally push with all one’s body force to get it to open. The wi-fi was not reliable, as it did not work for us for a few days during our stay. And lastly, all of the electricity in the apartment only works if you insert a round key by the entrance way, which means that when you leave the apartment all of the electricity is shut-off. As the building door, the apartment key and the round key (for the electricity) are all on the same key ring enclosed together…you could not separate them and we only got one set of keys. This meant that we could not charge any of our electronics while we were out.