Newly refurbished, big and bright flat located in a quite and green area close to Ponte Milvio, new music Auditorium and MAXXI museum, 10 mins far from Piazza del Popolo by tram. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, big living with balcony, massive kitchen. Flat is located in the area known as Villaggio Olimpico. Architects Moretti, Cafiero, Monaco, Libera and Luccichenti designed Rome’s Olympic Village for the 1960 Olympics, and beyond. After the Games, the 1,800 apartments who had lodged athletes were to become council homes for civil servants and their families. Though “Villaggio Olimpico” houses the finest works of seven most prodigious architects, few people –locals as well as tourists– know this gem of modernist architecture.
A stroll between the buildings reveals a leafy neighbourhood with...
Newly refurbished, big and bright flat located in a quite and green area close to Ponte Milvio, new music Auditorium and MAXXI museum, 10 mins far from Piazza del Popolo by tram. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, big living with balcony, massive kitchen. Flat is located in the area known as Villaggio Olimpico. Architects Moretti, Cafiero, Monaco, Libera and Luccichenti designed Rome’s Olympic Village for the 1960 Olympics, and beyond. After the Games, the 1,800 apartments who had lodged athletes were to become council homes for civil servants and their families. Though “Villaggio Olimpico” houses the finest works of seven most prodigious architects, few people –locals as well as tourists– know this gem of modernist architecture.
A stroll between the buildings reveals a leafy neighbourhood with plenty of open space. Situated between the Tiber and Flaminio, the site still is a village that the ever-expanding Eternal City has never managed to swallow. Villaggio Olimpico breathes an exceptional harmony.More