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The turtles' dream luxury apartment four bedroom three bathrooms expansive sitting room terrace rome

- Campo de' Fiori

"The Turtles' Dream"

Overview


  • Elevator
  • Air conditioning / heating in each room
  • Internet Wi-Fi high speed internet
  • Colour TV with satellite dish
  • Complete kitchen equipment
    Washing machine, clothes dryer, iron, iron board, dishwasher
  • microwave, mixer (blender), toaster, electr. scales
  • Italian coffee pots, American coffee percolator, Tea kettle

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Very few properties are capable to bewilder at first sight, yet also to become enamoured of it. The Turtles' Dream has these qualities as it combines unobtainable elegance with charm, the class of an aristocratic palace with cosiness, historical character with cheerfulness and modern convenience.

The Turtles' Dream is a large, wonderful apartment taking up the high floor of the famous Costaguti Palace in Rome, situated in the square Piazza Mattei, where you find perhaps Rome's finest fountain: the Turtle Fountain, or Fontana delle Tartarughe (by Taddeo Landini, 1581-1588).

Right photo: the Turtle Fountain. All the windows of the highest floor of the palace belong to the apartment, and face the fountain.

The Fountain is so famous that there many copies of it were built in the world (4 only in the USA). You will be able to see the original from your windows at all times.

The apartment is part of the historical Costaguti Palace, one of Rome's most famous. It is owned by the same family since 1578. They will be your hospitable and courteous hosts.

The entrance is directly from the main gate of the palace, which has a concierge. The square and the palace are located in the heart of old Rome, between the two districts Campo de' Fiori and the Jewish Ghetto, and near Piazza Navona and the Pantheon.

All Rome's sights are either around the palace, or at walking distance and can be easily be reached on foot. The neighbourhood springs up with artisans' shops, restaurants, cafes, shops and groceries of all kinds. The people of the quarter are very friendly and helpful.

Past the gate of the palace one can either take the historical stairs or the elevator, reaching directly the landing of the apartment.

As you step in you are immediately stupefied by the splendid and nevertheless cosy sitting room (left photo).

Left: the wonderful sitting room, past the entry door.

The décor is outstanding. The floors are made of special "Graniglia" tiles, made of inclusions of different marbles bonded, giving a mosaic effect.

The original wooden coffered ceiling is decorated ingeniously. In each frame of the 168 frames there is a painting of a different species of birds.

Beneath the ceiling, in the perimetral walls you find beautiful frescoes of peacocks, spaced out with the coat of arms of the Costaguti family.

 

The room is elegantly furnished.

You find two large sofas, a wooden table, a wonderful chest of drawers, and a stylish table just past the entry door.

The room is also equipped with a high quality HD LCD 37 inches colour TV, broadcasting all intl' channels by means of cable-satellite.

As the right photo shows, the room is also decorated with paintings and old prints, by lamps, and by a coat stand.

As you can see, the sitting room leads also to the other rooms (there is also a second entry door leading to them, near the main entry door).

Opposite view of the sitting room, with glimpse of the dining room - kitchen. Notice the wonderful floor, and the cosy old wooden door.

The wooden coffered ceiling is mesmerising.

 

 

As mentioned, you find 168 coffered frames, each with the painting of a different species of birds (left photo, inside you wind more photos about the ceiling).

The paintings were restored over the centuries, and thus their colours are vivid to this day. The last renovation occurred 6 years ago.

Please look the lower part of this page for more details about the previous of this room.

Kindly remember that this is also just the overview page: please go to the top index leading to the detailed presentation of the property.

The other rooms of the apartment can be reached, as mentioned, either through the sitting room, or through a second entry door.

The dining room - kitchen is simply brilliant.

It is very large, bright, with a classical design, excellent decor and charming feel.

The kitchen furnitures, its cabinets and all the appliances are brand new.

Left: the dining room and the kitchen.

Together, the dining room and the kitchen surface is 40 Sq. Mts. (app. 430 Sq. Ft.).

The floor tiles, and also those of the kitchen, are still made of "graniglia", yet with a different design, following the tradition of the region of Naples (producing the finest Italian tiles).

The room is endowd with three large windows. Two overlook the street Via dei Falegnami, while one overlooks Piazza Mattei and the Turtle Fountain.

 

 

 

 

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This is just the overview page: please go to the top index leading to the detailed presentation of the property.

 

 

 

This is just the overview page: please go to the top index leading to the detailed presentation of the property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is just the overview page: please go to the top index leading to the detailed presentation of the property.

 

 

 

The owners of this property are extremely kind and hospitable, and they love to share their passion for history with guests.

The fillet, or decorated fascia stretching through the entire perimetre of the sitting room, just below the ceiling. It displays peacock couples, and also the coat of arm of the Costaguti family (three sharpened gilded stripes pointing towards three eight-pointed stars).

 

In the wall of the sitting room facing the windows, overlooking the street Via dei Falegnami, - top left photo - you find the coat of arms of the noble and kindest owners.
It is a composite coat of arms, as the family includes two branches (right photo). On its left side you find the Costaguti symbols (described above), in the centre you find the main symbol of the Afan de Rivera family (three horizontal green lines with a gilded background), which is the graphical representation of the Spanish slogan "Por la gracias de Dios" (By the grace of God). You also find the symbol of the Enriquez family, which merged at some stage within the dinasty (standing red lion and the two towers).

For a detailed presentation of the rooms, please go to the INDEX on top of this page

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