This intimate and exquisite hotel is a delight for any romantic soul who has dreamed of time travel, of spending the night in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 18th century exhibit. Directly adjacent to the base of the old Roman aqueduct and a few cobblestoned blocks away from the Temple of Diana, this entrancing hotel is 503 years old....and time has been kind in the very best ways - enormous mahogony mirrors, rosewood tables, little alabaster statues, and faded 19th century lithographs of the babies that once occupied the estate.

it's something very special right from the moment that Paolo the caretaker (an enchanting fellow who seems to embody the mystery and love that imbues this place) opens the enormous green doors into the cavernous interior corridor to reveal a suit of armour with spooky blue eyed mannequin, a peeling imperial pallaquin from long gone centuries...nooks of brightly colored tile set into deep windows, sweeping dusty staircases, and a corridor of rooms... more