The Lilium guide

What you can reach on foot from Porta Pia

The map by walking distance — 5, 10 and 20 minutes from the hotel

The hotel is at Via Venti Settembre 58/A, by Porta Pia. From here, much of a Roman day is done on foot: no metro, no taxi for the first stops. We have put in order what you can reach — and in how many minutes of walking. Open the distance band you need.

Baroque façade of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Vittoria on Via Venti Settembre, Rome

About 5 minutes on foot

A few steps away, our street

Porta Pia is at the end of the hotel's street: Michelangelo's last architectural work, commissioned by Pope Pius IV around 1561, and the site of the Breach of 20 September 1870. Built against the gate, the Historical Museum of the Bersaglieri has free entry and rooms that are almost always empty. All around, Via Venti Settembre is the Umbertine axis of the ministries, lined with late-nineteenth-century palaces that speak the same Liberty language as the Lilium.

On the same street, less than ten minutes on foot, stands the Basilica di Santa Maria della Vittoria: inside, in the half-light of the Cornaro Chapel, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1652) awaits you, one of the absolute peaks of the Baroque. Entry is free. A little further on, in Piazza San Bernardo, the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice — the Fountain of Moses — closes the nearest band.

Read the guide to Bernini's Ecstasy →

~5 minutes on foot

In five minutes

At the end of the street

Porta Pia

Michelangelo's last work (1561) and the Breach of 1870. Beside it, the Historical Museum of the Bersaglieri, with free entry.

Less than 10 min

Santa Maria della Vittoria

Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Cornaro Chapel, on our very own Via Venti Settembre. Free entry.

On the street

Fountain of Moses

The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice in Piazza San Bernardo, the first great monumental fountain of modern Rome, commissioned by Sixtus V in 1587.

Via Venti Settembre, the Umbertine axis that runs from the hotel down towards Piazza della Repubblica and Termini, Rome

About 10–15 minutes on foot

Towards Termini and the Baths

Walking down Via Venti Settembre towards Piazza della Repubblica you reach, in about ten to fifteen minutes, Termini station: the Lilium is about 850 metres from the station, a flat stroll. It is the hub from which trains, the metro and shuttles depart for the rest of the city — the Colosseum, the Vatican, the airport.

On the same square are the Baths of Diocletian, the largest public baths of Roman antiquity (298–306 AD), today partly the National Roman Museum. The jewel is the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri: in 1563 Michelangelo transformed the frigidarium of the baths into a church, keeping the giant Roman vaults. Free entry, and the sundial running across the nave is impossible to forget.

How to reach the Lilium from Termini →

~10–15 minutes on foot

In ten to fifteen minutes

~850 m · 10–15 min

Termini station

The hub for trains, metro lines A/B and airport shuttles. A flat stroll along Via Venti Settembre.

Piazza della Repubblica

Baths of Diocletian

The largest baths of Roman antiquity, today the National Roman Museum, with Michelangelo's Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Free entry to the basilica.

Towards Termini

Palazzo Massimo

The seat of Palazzo Massimo alle Terme holds some of the most important frescoes, mosaics and sculptures of the National Roman Museum, a step from the station.

The park of Villa Torlonia, about twenty minutes on foot from the Lilium heading up Via Nomentana, Rome

Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

About 15–20 minutes on foot

Heading up Via Nomentana

From Porta Pia you take Via Nomentana, the elegant tree-lined avenue of the northern quadrant. In about eighteen to twenty minutes, almost entirely on the flat, you reach the gate of Villa Torlonia: a free public park, open every day, with century-old pines and — hidden among the trees — the Casina delle Civette, the Liberty-style pavilion of artistic stained glass. The same aesthetic family as the Lilium.

Continuing on the same axis, in about twenty minutes, you reach the Coppedè district: a fairy-tale block signed by Gino Coppedè, with the Fountain of the Frogs, the Villini delle Fate and the Palazzo del Ragno. It is the most surprising Liberty Rome, and almost no tourist knows it.

Guide to Villa Torlonia → · Guide to the Coppedè district →

~15–20 minutes on foot

In twenty minutes, Liberty-style Rome

about 18–20 min·Via Nomentana

Villa Torlonia and the Casina delle Civette

A free park open from dawn to dusk, with the Liberty museum of stained glass by Cesare Picchiarini after designs by Duilio Cambellotti. Read the guide →

about 20 min·Via Nomentana

Coppedè district and MACRO

Gino Coppedè's fairy-tale block with the Fountain of the Frogs and the Villini delle Fate; a little further on, in the Salario area, the MACRO, a museum of contemporary art. Read the guide →

Frequently asked questions

Questions about the walking map

What is within a 5-minute walk of the Lilium?

Within about five minutes on foot from the Lilium, on Via Venti Settembre by Porta Pia, you have the Porta Pia monument — Michelangelo's last architectural work — with the free-entry Historical Museum of the Bersaglieri, and the start of the Umbertine axis of Via Venti Settembre. The Basilica di Santa Maria della Vittoria, with Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, is on the same street, less than ten minutes away.

What is within a 10-minute walk of the Lilium?

Within about ten to fifteen minutes on foot you reach Termini station, about 850 metres from the hotel on the flat, and Piazza della Repubblica with the Baths of Diocletian and the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, carved by Michelangelo out of the frigidarium of the ancient baths. From Termini run trains, the metro and shuttles for the rest of the city.

What is within a 20-minute walk of the Lilium?

Heading up Via Nomentana, in about eighteen to twenty minutes on foot you reach Villa Torlonia, a free public park with the Liberty-style Casina delle Civette. Continuing on the same axis, in about twenty minutes you reach the Coppedè district, with the Fountain of the Frogs and the Villini delle Fate.

Can you explore Rome on foot from Lilium Boutique Hotel?

Yes. The Lilium is at Via Venti Settembre 58/A, by Porta Pia: much of the first stops of a Roman day can be reached on foot, with no need for transport. Porta Pia is at the end of the street; Santa Maria della Vittoria less than ten minutes away; Termini 10-15 minutes away; Villa Torlonia and Coppedè about twenty minutes away, heading up Via Nomentana.

All on foot, from our door

The map starts from your room

Bernini in five minutes, Termini in ten, Villa Torlonia and Coppedè in twenty. Stay at Lilium Boutique Hotel — fourteen rooms, one flower each — and make Porta Pia your starting point.

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