The promise behind the site
Before you trust a word elsewhere on lestanzediottaviano.com, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.
Standards
How Le Stanze di Ottaviano chooses topics, checks claims, names writers, dates articles and handles corrections and commercial links.
Before you trust a word elsewhere on lestanzediottaviano.com, it is fair to know how those words get made. That is the entire purpose of this page.
We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.
A draft goes through four hands worth of work. The writer separates what they know from what they assume. The assumptions are either checked against something nameable or deleted. What is left gets written up. Then a second person reads it looking only for overconfidence, which is the failure this subject invites most.
We treat dates as facts, not decoration. Refreshing a page to look current without changing its substance is a small lie we would rather not tell, so we do not touch the date unless the content genuinely moved.
Part of what keeps the lights on is commercial links. The verdict on a page is written first and does not bend to whether a link earns anything.
When a partner leans on us to bury a negative line, we keep the line and the email. The leaning tells readers something the original page could not.
Each piece is signed, and each signature is a link to everything else that person has written. A house byline would let a weak article hide; a real name does not.
Giulia Ferrara, Host and founder. Giulia has run Le Stanze di Ottaviano for twelve years. She grew up in Prati, knows every street in the neighbourhood, and is quietly passionate about helping guests see Rome the way locals do.
Marco Bianchi, Local travel and neighbourhood writer. Marco has been writing about Rome and Lazio for travel publications for over a decade. He lives five minutes from the guest house and updates his neighbourhood guides every season.
Elena Conti, Food and culture writer. Elena writes about Roman food, culture and the experience of being a visitor in a city that rewards patience and curiosity. She contributes to several Italian travel blogs and eats out more than is strictly advisable.
Send the page and the problem to info@lestanzediottaviano.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.