da Gemma al 41 Bed and Breakfast

The B&B da Gemma al 41 is situated in the heart of Rome inside the “rione Campo Marzio”, a quarter builded during the Renascence; it has developed during the lasts centuries in an actractive place for many foreigners and artists who have found here the right atmosphere to live and work.

Up today this atmosphere is perceiveble among the tables of the various cafés, places, restaurants where you can refresh with a very good coffee, have a chat or listen about an interesting conversation on art or history of the city. So as at the Caffè Greco and at Notegen’s, both known to have received in the past writers, poets and artists like Goethe, Byron, Guttuso and many others.

At the number 150 of via del Babuino just near the fountain called “the Babuino fountain” which gives the name to the street, has recently opened the Atelier Antonio Canova, where the artist went freequently in his life.

At the left side of Trinità dei Monti you will find the most ancient english tea room in Rome, Babington’s and at the opposite side the house where the poet John Keats lived during the brief period of his stay in Rome with his friend and painter Severn.

In the evening you can walk along via Margutta, reach the house where Fellini lived and have a look to the ateliers of many artists of our days who with their presences, keep an important tradition.

The B&B da Gemma al 41 is among one of the most vivacious and cultural quarter of the city and also if the street is not anymore the famous street of the antiquarians as it use to be once, it is still a very fascinating place. Around piazza di Spagna and piazza del Popolo, with terraces which look towards Pincio and Villa Borghese, you will find the most interesting monuments of the city.

The B&B is inside the palace of the XVII century, “Palazzetto Sterbini”; the front door gives to a lovely courtyard with very old and beautiful palm tree, with windows looking in the Feltrinelli book shop, one of the most famous in Rome. The south side of the house is visible at the third floor of the building, with thelittle balcony and a bow-window. Getting out of the palace you can easily reach the most actractive quarters of the center of the city.

Gemma is a painter, a writer and a good cook; you will be wellcomed in a house full of memories and art, in which her family has been living up at the year 1931 when her grand mother came from Cornwall, to stay in Rome with her three daughters.

The rooms one single and one double, at the third floor have their big windows opening on via Margutta with a splendid view to Villa Borghese and Casina Valadier.