We stayed at Riccardo’s place during our honeymoon. Riccardo met us outside of the apartment and checked us in himself and gave us restaurant and gelato recommendations. The building it self is a bit shabby but the location is down the block from the Duomo and extremely convenient to many sights. However, with the location comes a great deal of noise. Unfortunately the windows appear to be single paned and being that the apartment is only on the second floor, it was extremely loud at night. We had the AC on which worked incredibly well to cool the downstairs sleeping portion of the house, but it was also quite loud and made a deep clicking noise every few seconds. We tried putting on nature sounds on repeat on our phones but unfortunately even that wasn’t enough to drown out the street noise. I’m a light sleeper but my husband is an extremely heavy one and he didn’t sleep a wink.
Overall, the location is amazing and the apartment is decorated magnificently, but because of the noise impacting our sleep, we wouldn’t be back to stay. Riccardo himself was a great host though, very responsible and pleasant to work with. If you can sleep through a lot of noise then I would definitely recommend his home!