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Roma Luxus Hotel
Rome, Italy · Independent · Near Luxury
A monumental double staircase climbs to Santi Domenico e Sisto, the Dominicans' baroque church on the lower Quirinal, and almost nobody notices the hotel folded into the same complex. Roma Luxus occupies an eighteenth-century wing of the Angelicum, the order's university quarter. Owners Roberta Battista and Francesca Neri handed the thirty rooms to Rocco Bellanova, who built the look out of the sketchbooks English travellers filled on the Grand Tour and named it Old English Eclecticism.
- 30 rooms
- Neighborhood: Monti / Quirinale
- Interiors: Rocco Bellanova
About Roma Luxus Hotel
- The Angelicum next door is the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, grown up around a church the Dominicans began in 1569 and a convent for Dominican nuns started six years later.
- Rocco Bellanova called his scheme Old English Eclecticism, taking his cue from the notebooks and freehand sketches young English aristocrats filled while they were on the Grand Tour of Italy.
- Thirty rooms run from a twenty-square-metre Superior to a fifty-nine-square-metre Master Suite that sleeps five, with balconies and private terraces scattered between them.
- Dining splits in two: A Casa Tua living does Roman home cooking on the ground floor, while Garden works a wood-fired oven on the top floor.
History
Roma Luxus sits in the upper reaches of Rione Monti, on the slope of the Quirinal, in a wing of what the hotel describes as an eighteenth-century palace forming part of the Angelicum complex. That complex is the campus of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, which grew up around the church of Santi Domenico e Sisto: begun in 1569 on the order of the Dominican Pope Pius V to a plan by Giacomo della Porta, with a convent for Dominican nuns started in 1575, a travertine baroque facade raised by Vincenzo and Felice della Greca in 1646, and statues of Saint Dominic and Pope Sixtus II by Carlo Maderno on the stair front. Construction dragged on into the 1660s and 1670s.
The building came to hospitality recently. Owners Roberta Battista and Francesca Neri commissioned a full renovation and gave the interiors to Rocco Bellanova, who worked from the travel notebooks and freehand sketches that young northern Europeans, especially the English, filled during the Grand Tour, when Rome was the fixed point of an aristocratic education. Bellanova named the resulting style Old English Eclecticism: deliberate contrasts, strong colour, Italian furniture and art hung close. The house has thirty rooms across ten categories, from twenty-square-metre Superiors to a fifty-nine-square-metre Master Suite that sleeps five, several with balconies or a private terrace. Dining runs on two registers under the A Casa Tua name, a ground-floor living room for Roman cooking and Garden upstairs with a wood-fired oven and a lounge bar.
The setting
Largo Angelicum is a pocket of quiet on the Quirinal slope above Via Nazionale, reached by the staircase in front of Santi Domenico e Sisto and shared with the Dominicans' pontifical university. It is an unusually calm address for how central it is: the Roman Forum and the Imperial Fora open out below, Piazza Venezia and Via del Corso are a few minutes on foot, and the Trajan's Market side of Monti begins immediately downhill. Monti itself is Rome's first rione, a neighbourhood of workshops, wine bars and antique dealers that has kept its residential feel while sitting between the Colosseum and the Quirinal.
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