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Le Meridien Visconti Rome
Rome, Italy · Le Méridien · Near Luxury
Prati was laid out as the respectable quarter across the Tiber from the Vatican, wide streets and heavy apartment blocks, and the Visconti has held a corner of it on Via Federico Cesi since 1974. There are 242 rooms, a garden courtyard for coffee, and, since the fiftieth birthday in 2024, the Paparazzo Bar and Rooftop on the seventh floor. From up there the view runs from Trinità dei Monti across to the dome of St Peter's, which is about as Roman as a nightcap gets.
- 242 rooms
- Opened 1974
- Neighborhood: Prati
- Rooms from 194 sq ft (18 m²)
About Le Meridien Visconti Rome
- For its fiftieth birthday in 2024 the hotel finished its top floor with two suites of 80 and 70 square metres, each with a private planted terrace, a hot tub and a record player.
- Harry Gregory designed those suites around Italian design landmarks: the Fiat 500, the Flos Arco lamp and Olivetti's Valentine typewriter, with nods to Gio Ponti, Sottsass and the Castiglioni brothers.
History
The Visconti opened on Via Federico Cesi in 1974, a tall, plain building in Prati a few minutes from the Tiber and Castel Sant'Angelo. It was restored in 2017, and its 242 rooms were reworked in grey, white and light wood with Art Deco metalwork.
In 2024, for its fiftieth anniversary, the hotel completed an extension of the seventh floor. Two suites joined the existing Terrace Suites: the Grand Suite at 80 square metres and the Top Suite at 70, both designed by Harry Gregory around the objects of the Italian 1950s and 1960s, each with a planted private terrace, a hot tub, a solarium and a turntable, reached by an open marble stair. The same floor gained the Paparazzo Bar and Rooftop, styled after the years when photographers chased film stars around Rome.
The setting
Prati was cut into the fields north of Castel Sant'Angelo after 1870 as a deliberately secular quarter for the new Italian state's civil servants, which is why its streets are so straight in a city that has almost none. The hotel sits two blocks from the river. Piazza del Popolo is over the Ponte Regina Margherita, St Peter's is a walk south along the embankment, and Via Cola di Rienzo, one of the better shopping streets in Rome, is a few minutes away.
Amenities
- Non-smoking rooms
- Room service
- Restaurant
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Fitness center
- Internet
- Parking
- Family rooms
- Bar
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