Hotels to remember: Rome

Ancient, renaissance, baroque, contemporary. Political, papal, passionate. Vivacious, frivolous monumental. Rome caput mundi.

Italy’s capital city is, arguably, the most visited in the world. For many, Rome is first and foremost the political centre of the nation, for others it is primarily home to the Pope. All agree upon the importance of Rome in the development western civilisation.

Once the capital of the Roman Empire, the most powerful of the ancient western world, Rome has retained its impressive cultural, historical, and artistic importance and is still, centuries later, an important protagonist on the world scene. Here, every piazza, street, and alleyway records the history of Rome's glorious past, which is, needless to say, only a part of the city's charm. Ideally, Rome should also be experienced via the old quarters of Testaccio and Trastevere, where to savour the warmth of the people and the authentic soul of the "eternal city".