Located at the top of Rome’s iconic Spanish Steps, our newest property, Hotel de la Ville, pays homage to the European Grand Tour. During the 18th and 19th centuries, young gentlemen were sent on a tour of Europe, intended to enlighten and educate. Rome was an essential stop on every tour, as the city’s long history reaching from the ancient to the Renaissance yielded a wealth of culture.
Hotel de la Ville’s elegant design mirrors the traditions of the Grand Tour, from the collecting of objets and works of art to the seamless blend of the ancient and the contemporary that so symbolises the Eternal City. Olga Polizzi, Director of Design Rocco Forte Hotels, and renowned architect Tommaso Ziffer have taken this to heart in the hotel’s 104 rooms, combining traditional artisanal skills with contemporary elegance.
Rekindling a thirst for knowledge and sense of exploration, Hotel de la Ville has curated its very own selection of enriching local experiences that encapsulate the ethos of the Grand Tour.
Our Contemporary Art Itinerary discovers Rome’s buzzing modern art scene with a behind-the-scenes tour of the hottest art galleries, artists’ studios and museums, including the acclaimed MAXXI. For scent-lovers, our Olfactive Itinerary will take you on a journey inside one of Rome’s most stunning boutiques and perfume specialists. Our tour of the 19th century Palazzo Chauvet treats gets to indulgent beauty treatments accompanied by cocktails in unrivalled surroundings.
To reserve your stay at Hotel de la Ville, email reservations.delaville@roccofortehotels.com or call +39 06 32 888 880.
The soul of a destination – that special something all travellers yearn to glimpse – is really the soul of its people. It is timeless humanity refracted by a place’s unique qualities, by its bounty and scarcity, its landscape and climate.
Florence becomes the most compelling creative retreat when you fall in step with the city’s pace. In Milan you might ‘get your hustle on’ and Rome leans into a meandering walk or Vespa ride, this city, the birthplace of the Renaissance, draws us more towards strolling.
The Grand Tour has had its day, in the most fortunate way. What was once a rite of years is now within reach of anyone with the curiosity to make it. The prescribed list of sights has loosened too, leaving the traveller free to follow Goethe's original instinct, to stand where the present is being made as well as where the past is preserved. Today, our journey through Milan, Florence and Rome begins, as it always did, in the north…
