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Ripa, Rome — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Santa Prisca, Santi Bonifacio e Alessio and Santa Maria del Priorato all stand in Ripa, the twelfth rione of Rome.
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Beds cluster on the slope below Santa Prisca. Streets around Santi Bonifacio e Alessio stay residential, and the rione sits inside Municipio I with its churches and ruins spread across it rather than along a single main street. Santa Maria del Priorato sits highest.
Rooms here suit you best if you walk, because the Baths of Decius and the churches standing above them sit at the top of a steady climb.
About Ripa
What are the main landmarks in Ripa?
Four names carry the rione. Santa Prisca and Santi Bonifacio e Alessio share the same upper streets, and Santa Maria del Priorato makes the third of the churches by which the rione is known. Older ground lies under all of them.
The Baths of Decius survive as the Roman layer, a bath complex whose remains fix Ripa inside the ancient city and not only in the medieval one.
What is the history of Ripa?
Ripa entered Rome's roll of rioni around 1300, taking twelfth place in a numbering that still orders the historic core, and it sits inside Municipio I under the modern arrangement. The ground is far older. The Baths of Decius belong to imperial Rome, and Santa Prisca and Santi Bonifacio e Alessio carry dedications from the early Christian centuries that followed.
Santa Maria del Priorato arrived later than either.
Where is Ripa?
Ripa is the twelfth rione of Rome, inside Municipio I, its upper streets carrying Santa Prisca and the Baths of Decius. Santa Maria del Priorato closes one side.
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Updated September 2026