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Umilta 36
Rome, Italy · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Via dell'Umilta spent decades in offices, and in the 1950s this building held a school for cantors. Shedir Collection opened it as Umilta 36 in July 2022, with CaberlonCaroppi looking back to the Roman drawing rooms of the dolce vita: a marble stair, wood panelling run up to the ceiling, a courtyard washed in deep blue, and a cloister under glass where breakfast happens whatever the weather. Twenty-nine rooms sit on the two piani nobili; eighteen apartments with kitchens fill the floors above. The Trevi Fountain is three minutes away.
- 47 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Neighborhood: Trevi / Via dell'Umilta
- Rooms from 301 sq ft (28 m²)
- Interiors: CaberlonCaroppi
About Umilta 36
- Forty-seven keys in all, split between hotel rooms on the lower floors and apartments with kitchenettes upstairs, plus two suites that open onto terraces over the rooftops.
- The ground floor holds Dandy Cafe and a restaurant built by the team behind El Porteno in Milan, so an Argentine grill ended up three minutes from the Trevi Fountain.
- The street is named for Santa Maria dell'Umilta, and the Dominican nuns' monastery founded here in 1601 under that title is now Casa Santa Maria, the graduate house of the Pontifical North American College.
- Umilta 36 was Shedir Collection's third Rome opening, arriving a couple of minutes from the group's Hotel Maalot.
- Entry-level rooms start at 301 sq ft (28 m²).
History
The building at Via dell'Umilta 36 spent a long stretch in institutional and office use: a school for cantors during the 1950s, then executive offices for decades afterwards. Shedir Collection converted it between 2020 and 2022 and opened Umilta 36 in July 2022, the group's third Rome property after Hotel Maalot a couple of minutes away.
CaberlonCaroppi took the design back to the Roman living rooms of the 1950s, when the city's own dolce vita was the reference point rather than anything imported. The marble staircase was kept, bold wallpapers and warm tones lead from the entrance up past the lift landings, and the internal courtyard was painted an intense blue before opening into a glazed cloister that lets breakfast run outdoors in any weather. Solid wood panelling behind the beds was used to draw the eye up to the original ceiling heights. The count is 47 keys: 29 rooms on the first and second floors, the two piani nobili, and 18 apartments on the two floors above, each with a living room and kitchenette for longer stays, plus two suites with terraces over the roofs. Bathrooms are marble throughout, contemporary artworks hang in the corridors, and the ground floor carries Dandy Cafe together with a restaurant developed by the people behind El Porteno in Milan, an Argentine room adapted to the tall, narrow geometry of the building.
The setting
Via dell'Umilta runs between the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Venezia, one street back from the fountain crowds and within a few minutes of the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, the Spanish Steps and the Roman Forum. The street takes its name from Santa Maria dell'Umilta: a monastery of Dominican nuns was founded here in 1601 under that title, its conventual church consecrated in 1653 and decorated with marble and frescoes in the mid-eighteenth century, and after the Napoleonic suppressions Pope Pius IX granted the complex in 1859 to the newly founded North American College. It is still there as Casa Santa Maria, at number 30, housing American priests studying at the Roman universities behind a cloister and two gardens.
Restaurants and bars
- Aquamarina Restaurant — Restaurant · Flavours of the sea
- Dandy Café — Café
Experiences
- Dandy Café bar — Bar with a large back-bar of spirits and a wall of portrait paintings.
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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