Opposite Porta Pia – a four-minute walk from Michelangelo's monumental gate – this apartment in a 19th-century building offers one of central Rome's rarer pleasures: a fifty square metre south-facing terrace where you can spend a long afternoon in the sun without going anywhere. The living room opens straight onto it, making the terrace feel like a natural extension of the home rather than an afterthought. Inside, the building's historic bones sit alongside modern touches, and the Borghese Gallery is an easy twenty-one-minute walk when you're ready to head out into the city.