Vacation Rentals in Rome

When looking for accommodation in Rome, the capital of Italy, you can fall back on a broad spectrum, ranging from a cosy apartment for two to a cosy holiday apartment to a spacious villa with garden. The city centre around the seven hills of Rome offers a particularly wide range of attractions. You will stay in one of the numerous holiday apartments on the banks of the Tiber, where you can pitch your tents and enjoy the view of the river in the midst of countless historical sights.

Also very popular are the residential areas close to picturesque city villas such as Villa Doria Pamphili, Villa Carpegna or Villa Borghese with their extensive green areas, which exude a Mediterranean flair in the middle of the city. A holiday apartment in the centre also guarantees short distances to the sights of Rome, especially as it is usually only a few minutes' walk from there to the nearest underground station or bus stop.

You like it a little quieter? Then a vacation rental or apartment outside the centre is ideal for you. Particularly idyllic are the villa-like holiday accommodations northeast of the centre on Lago di Bracciano and on the edge of the Parco Regionale di Velo nature reserve. Alternatively, you can move into a modernly furnished accommodation at the foot of Monte Cavo to the south-east, where you will benefit from the proximity to Ciampino Airport. The Ostia district, on the other hand, offers holiday apartments and apartments by the sea, which is ideal if you want to combine culture and bathing fun during your holiday.

Rome is one of the great melting pots of human history and a Mecca for history fans who can embark on a journey through over 2,500 years of art and culture in the centre of the city on the Tiber. From the Roman Forum excavation site to the ruins of the Colosseum to the Pantheon and the Vatican City with its monumental St. Peter's Basilica, Rome offers historical sights that fill several vacations at once. In addition, there are numerous Mediterranean villas, the Angel Castle, the Spanish Staircase, the Trevi Fountain as well as numerous museums and art collections worth seeing.

In hardly any other city in Italy is the range of specialities on offer as large as in Rome. Embark on a culinary journey and taste the numerous Roman specialities. In order to enjoy these delicacies as traditional as possible and not to be served tourist variations, you should look out for restaurants where you can find mainly locals. You should definitely try the lamb with fried potatoes (abbacchio al forno), the oxtail in a spicy sauce of tomatoes, garlic, pine nuts and dark chocolate (coda alla vaccinara) and the chicken with raw ham (pollo alla romana). A good meal is rounded off by the traditional ricotta cake with sour cherry jam (crostata di ricotta e visciole).

Those who want to spend a cultural holiday in the Eternal City should book their vacation rental for the months April, May, September and October, as at this time of year, the temperatures range from seven to eight hours of sunshine per day in a pleasant range of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. Especially in midsummer, longer sightseeing tours are not recommended due to the prevailing heat. The summer months between June and August, on the other hand, are ideal for a bathing holiday, as up to 11 hours of sunshine a day and average maximum temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius warm the Mediterranean Sea to a pleasant bathing temperature.

The programme of events in Rome is at least as varied as the sights on offer and begins with the traditional carnival in February. We continue with the Easter Blessing "Urbi et Orbi", which the Pope will say on Easter Sunday in front of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square. Other highlights are the Military Parade on the occasion of the Republican Festival, the great popular festival of the patron saints Peter and Paul in June, the Museum Night "Notte bianca" in September and the Rome Film Festival in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in November.