La Residenza Napoleone

Central Rome, Italy

Press Reviews

The 50 Best Hotels in the World, The Telegraph, December 2010
"Not a hotel in the conventional sense, but then it’s hard to imagine any hotel in Rome, or any other city for that matter, with rooms as sumptuous as the two suites in this majestic 16th-century palazzo. The antiques, Roman busts, priceless oil paintings and vast, silk-draped canopy bed are much as they were when Napoleon III lived here in 1830. And unlike many of Rome’s luxury hotels, which languish on, or beyond, the peripheral Via Vittorio Veneto, the patrician Residenza is centrally located on Via Condotti, Rome’s smartest shopping street."

Conde Nast Traveller (UK), August 2010
"Rent one of the two suites at opulent 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli, where owner Princess Letizia can help make dinner arrangements."

The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, November 2008
"Via Condotti is home to fashion's biggest hitters (from Gucci to Ferragamo). And if you can afford to shop there, you can perhaps afford the world's most resplendent B&B: this inimitable private apartment with dining room, bedroom, drawing room and bathroom is an unfeasibly opulent 16th-century palazzo festooned with Old Masters. One even conceals a cinema screen."

Save to favouritesPrintMailLa Residenza NapoleoneIf you can drag your eyes away from the mouthwatering boutique fronts of Rome's Via Condotti for a moment, you'll see behind you some large and private wooden gates. They may not gleam and glitter like the window displays, but what lies behind them is dazzling. These doors are a portal into a former, more splendid age. Doric colonnades lined with statues lead up to a wing of the 16th-century Palazzo Ruspoli. Above the all-marble staircase, imperial busts gaze onto fabulous antiques, and rare Gobelin tapestries rub shoulders with 500-year-old oil paintings (one of which artfully conceals a cinema screen). This is where Emperor Napoleon III and his mother, the former Queen of Holland, lived. Now it's home to the welcoming and unpretentious Princess Letizia Ruspoli, who has made two [r:IT041:apartments] available to the select few. If you have always wanted to stay somewhere fit for a king - or an emperor - this is your chance.

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