Rome · for students
Studying in Rome
La Sapienza twenty minutes away, the biggest library in Italy at eighteen, a free study room at four. Rome has more than 250,000 students and the libraries to hold them, almost all open to non-students too: an ID is enough. For an exam, an Erasmus or a whole semester.
Inside Tomato
Before you go out: what is already in the house, included in the price of the night. And a long-stay rate, if you stay a semester.
- The room
- Quiet hours from 11 pm to 8 am, digital keys, reception until midnight. To really sleep the night before the exam.
- The coworking space
- Free for guests: a desk, sockets, wi-fi, and the meeting rooms for group work, booked at the desk.
- The kitchen, 24 hours
- The cheapest place in Rome to eat. Breakfast is at one shared table, in the morning.
- The long-stay rate
- A week, a month or a semester: ask at the desk or write to roma@tomato.to.it. Book with us and we answer, not a middleman.
Study rooms and libraries
Almost all open to non-students too: an ID is enough. In order of distance from the door.
Study room at Palazzo delle Esposizioni
Twenty-four seats, wi-fi, sockets, lockers, no booking. Tue-Sun 10-20: the only one open on Sundays this close.
Gregorian University Library
The great library of the pontifical university, theology and philosophy but also history: external readers admitted with a card, €15 a day, €25 a week, €45 a month. Mon-Fri 8:30-18:30, Sat until 12:30.
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
The biggest in Italy: free card with an ID, from 18 years old, bags in the cloakroom. Usually Mon-Fri 8:30-19 and Sat until 13:30: check first.
Study room at the Casina del Salvi
The upper floor of a neoclassical coffee house inside the Celio park: 38 seats inside, 24 outside, sockets at the tables, sofas. Every day 10-19, free.
Biblioteca Alessandrina, Sapienza
A state library open to everyone from 16 years old with a card made at the welcome desk; laptop charging stations. Mon-Fri 8:30-19:30.
Casa delle Letterature
A hundred seats between Borromini’s oratory and the garden, free. Mon and Fri 10-18, Tue-Thu 10-19; closed at weekends.
Eating like a student
The regional DiSCo canteens are for students enrolled at universities and academies, with registration: full meal from €2.50 to €8.40 depending on income.
DiSCo canteen Sette Sale
The regional canteen on the Colle Oppio, renovated in 2022, 200 seats. Mon-Fri 11:45-15.
DiSCo canteen via De Lollis
580 seats, open for dinner too: Mon-Sat 11:45-15 and 18:45-21.
If you are not enrolled
You eat in our kitchen, open 24 hours, with groceries from the neighbourhood. And breakfast we have together, at one shared table.
The universities, on foot or by metro
From Monti the Città Universitaria is two metro stops away and the Gregorian twelve minutes on foot.
Angelicum
The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, above the Forums.
Pontifical Gregorian University
With the library open to external readers with a card.
Sapienza, Città Universitaria
The biggest university in Europe, with the Alessandrina Library inside the Rectorate.
A semester in Rome costs less than you think
Tomato is at via Cesare Balbo 4, inside Monti: a quiet room, quiet hours from 11 pm to 8 am, coworking space and 24-hour kitchen included, no city tax. If you stay a month or a semester, write to us for the long-stay rate. No parties: breakfast at one shared table in the morning and an aperitivo at seven, if you feel like it.
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