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The Fifteen Keys Hotel
Rome, Italy · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The name is the inventory: fifteen rooms, no more, in a five-storey townhouse from the early 1900s on a quiet lane in Monti. Sara Ferrajoli and Vincenzo Mirisola di Torresanto started work in June 2014 with the architect Antonio Girardi and kept what the house already had, stucco mouldings and bare brick, then put a leafy courtyard at the middle of it. Guests get bicycles, and a Vespa if they want one. Santa Maria Maggiore is around the corner.
- 15 rooms
- Opened 2015
- Neighborhood: Monti
- Architect: Antonio Girardi
About The Fifteen Keys Hotel
- Fifteen rooms fall into five types, from a twenty-square-metre Classic Light to the forty-five-square-metre Master Grey on the top floor, which spreads over two rooms and a shared balcony.
- The building had been used as townhouse-style offices before the renovation; several rooms now show the original brick behind the bed.
- Monti is Rione I, the first of Rome's rioni, and still behaves like a village: artisans, vintage shops and antique dealers, with the Roman Forum a few minutes downhill.
History
The Fifteen Keys began with two partners, Sara Ferrajoli and Vincenzo Mirisola di Torresanto, who found a five-storey townhouse from the early 1900s on Via Urbana, a quiet lane in Rione Monti that had been serving as townhouse-style offices. In June 2014 they started the conversion under the architect Antonio Girardi, and the hotel opened at the beginning of 2015.
The renovation was deliberately unshowy. Stucco mouldings and original brick walls were left visible, custom pieces were mixed with vintage furniture, and the ground floor was opened up into a sequence of bright rooms: a lobby with floor-to-ceiling French doors under arched transoms, parquet floors, a blue bar used for afternoon tea and evening cocktails, and a breakfast room glazed onto a planted courtyard. The name is literal, fifteen rooms across five categories from twenty to forty-five square metres, most of them facing the courtyard or the rooftops, with earthenware bathrooms and Malin+Goetz amenities. The house is entirely non-smoking, and guests can borrow bicycles or rent a Vespa at reception.
The setting
Via Urbana runs through Monti, which is Rione I, the first of Rome's rioni, and one of the few central neighbourhoods that still reads as a residential village rather than a monument corridor. The streets are cobbled and narrow, filled with artisan workshops, vintage and antique dealers, small restaurants and pavement cafes. The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of Rome's four papal basilicas, stands just around the corner, and the Colosseum and the Roman Forum are a few minutes downhill. The Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona and the Pantheon are all reachable on foot, and Termini station is close enough for an early train.
Experiences
- Activities offered by the hotel — The hotel offers activities combined with stays; the page gives no detail on what they are.
Amenities
- Writing desk
- Telephone
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Mini-bar
- Personal safe
- USB sockets
- Kettle
- Hair-drier
- Flat iron
- Complimentary Wi-Fi
- 40" LCD TV with satellite channels and Google Chromecast
- Natural earthenware bathrooms with separate shower
- Custom-made Grown Alchemist amenities
- Enclosed courtyard
- Free Wi-Fi for guests dining in the breakfast room
- 24-hour reception
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