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Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo


A mecca for those who enjoy drinking craft beer, this hipster bar stocks artisanal tipples from around the globe and serves simple but tasty global food too.


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Nearby Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo attractions

1. Fondazione Pastificio Cerere

0.26 MILES

A former pasta factory that hung up its spaghetti racks in 1960 after 55 years of business, this is now a contemporary art hub, with regular shows in the…

2. Porta Maggiore

0.32 MILES

Porta Maggiore was built by order of the Emperor Claudius in AD 52. Then, as now, it was a major road junction under which passed the two main southbound…

3. Trofei di Mario

0.47 MILES

These ruins are the remains of a monumentally grandiose fountain built by emperor Alexander Severus to mark the end of an aqueduct. This principle of a…

4. Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II

0.5 MILES

Laid out in the late 19th century as the centrepiece of an upmarket residential district, Rome’s largest square is an ill-kempt grassy expanse, surrounded…

5. Cimitero di Campo Verano

0.51 MILES

The city’s largest cemetery dates from the Napoleonic occupation of Rome (1804–14), when an edict ordered that the city’s dead must be buried outside...

6. Chiesa di Sant’Eusebio

0.52 MILES

This small church, set back off the square, is popular with pet owners who bring their animals to be blessed on St Anthony’s feast day (17 January).

7. Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti

0.53 MILES

This little-known museum behind the church of Santa Croce stands on the site of the former home of St Helena. It’s undeservedly but refreshingly deserted,…

8. Chiesa di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

0.54 MILES

One of Rome’s seven pilgrimage churches, the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem was founded in 320 by St Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, in…