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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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Where to stay in Ripa
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
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.
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Around Santa Prisca
The upper streets of Ripa, where Santa Prisca and Santi Bonifacio e Alessio share the same short run of pavement and through traffic thins earlyFind hotels in Around Santa PriscaQuiet nights beside Santa Maria del Priorato rather than a base among the sights of central RomeAround Santa Maria del Priorato
The stillest corner of the twelfth rione, set well away from the Baths of Decius side and reached by lanes rather than by any main approach. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Around Santa Maria del PrioratoHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
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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What is the best area to stay in Ripa?
Around Santa Prisca: Stays that start at Santa Prisca and climb to Santi Bonifacio e Alessio on foot. Around Santa Maria del Priorato: Quiet nights beside Santa Maria del Priorato rather than a base among the sights of central Rome.
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Updated October 2026