The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Municipio Roma I

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Perched at the top of the Spanish Steps, this Forbes Five Star hotel has been the discreet address of choice for the kind of guests who travel with security details. The rooms are gilded, the concierge seems to know everyone in Rome, and the doormen have apparently been charming arrivals forever. It's old-school luxury in the most literal location possible, with the whole city spread out below.

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A former school of architecture on a quiet street off Via del Corso, this Forbes Five Star boutique hotel looks more like a tucked-away townhouse than anything that would charge what it charges. Inside, jewel tones and midcentury modern furniture share space with gilded moldings and ornate Roman detailing. The guest-only living room and library make it feel less like a hotel and more like staying in someone's very well-appointed palazzo.

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The grease pits are long gone, but Freni e Frizioni still has the bones of the auto workshop it used to be, reclaimed furniture and all. It's an aperitivo bar in Trastevere that pulls a crowd big enough to colonize the piazza outside most evenings. The cocktail list roams restlessly, taking inspiration from neighborhoods around the world. It holds a spot on Europe's 50 Best Bars, which the early-evening spillover crowd seems blissfully unaware of.

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Perched at the top of the Spanish Steps, this Forbes Five Star Rocco Forte hotel puts you at the center of Rome before you've even left the building. The 104 rooms mix contemporary interiors with that signature Forte polish, and the rooftop Cielo Bar has the kind of 360-degree view over the historic center that makes it hard to remember you came to see the city itself.

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A Forbes Five Star hotel on the corner that inspired Fellini's La Dolce Vita, which sets the bar uncomfortably high for everyone else on the street. Rooms run to high ceilings, custom furniture, and a sense of space that Rome's older hotels rarely manage. The Via Veneto neighborhood is quieter than you'd expect from its mythology, and the views over the city from the upper floors explain why the address has been coveted for so long.

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A palazzo tucked just off the Spanish Steps, Hotel d'Inghilterra has been putting up traveling writers and film stars since the nineteenth century, and the guest list reads like a syllabus. The recent renovation kept the antique mirrors and curated artworks but quietly updated the rest, so 79 rooms now manage to feel like a grand private residence without the cobwebs. The Forbes Four Star hotel's Café Romano handles breakfast and beyond downstairs.

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The Ferragamo family's fourteen-suite hotel sits above one of the family's own boutiques on Via dei Condotti, which should tell you everything about the register. Original sketches by Salvatore himself hang alongside photographs of 1950s Rome, giving the rooms a quiet backstory that most luxury hotels buy in bulk. A guests-only rooftop terrace wraps around the skyline, and the concierge thinks in terms of vintage Vespas rather than museum pamphlets.

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A luxury hotel tucked just below Via Veneto, close enough to everything without the tour-group foot traffic. The 93 rooms lean into quiet, muted tones and considered craftsmanship, and the building's 1930s bones still show in the right places. A garden restaurant, an arboreal lounge, and a rooftop plunge pool keep things from feeling too spare. Two secret cocktail bars are hidden somewhere on the property, which is either charming or infuriating depending on your mood.

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Murano glass chandeliers, marble columns, and hand-painted frescoes set the tone at this grand luxury hotel a short walk from the Termini and the Baths of Diocletian. The wrought-iron elevator, one of Rome's oldest still running, is worth a ride just to say you did. Top-hatted doormen and round-the-clock butlers handle the rest. A major renovation refreshed the rooms and added a curated art collection without disturbing the gilded excess.

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A former convent on the Gianicolo hill, this urban luxury hotel sits between Trastevere and the Vatican with a pool, a proper spa, and a cocktail bar housed in a deconsecrated church. The gardens are genuinely Roman in scale, and the suites lean into the imperial history of the site with a straight face. A Forbes Four Star property that earns its quiet by being slightly removed from the chaos below.

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A twelve-room hotel tucked behind the Quirinal Palace, in a patrician villa the family actually lived in for most of the last century. The rooms feel less like a hotel and more like staying with very rich, very tasteful relatives who've gone away for the week. A Forbes Four Star property, it runs small enough that the staff knows how you take your breakfast before you've asked twice.

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A windowless room on Via del Moro in Trastevere, done up in dark wood and overhead luggage racks like a very stationary Orient Express car. Jerry Thomas is a classic cocktail bar with 90-minute reservations and bartenders dressed for a century ago, which suits the bottled classics and Champagne on offer. Outside, Trastevere does its rowdy thing; inside, you'd never know.

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Colorful Mexican-tile bar top, embroidered stools, and a wall of agave spirits that would embarrass most dedicated mezcalerias: La Punta is a tequila and mezcal bar tucked into Trastevere, run by the team behind Jerry Thomas Speakeasy. They traveled to Oaxaca to build the menu, and it shows. Downstairs, a smaller den packs in even more bottles and Mexican paraphernalia. Order slowly; the list rewards it.

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A statue of Neptune guards the entrance, which tells you everything about the register this hotel is operating in. Murano chandeliers, original furnishings, and Art Nouveau bones that have never needed updating fill a property on the Via Veneto, Rome's old parade route for the glamorous and the self-conscious. The staff wear their livery like they mean it, and the whole place carries itself with the quiet certainty of somewhere that has never once questioned its own taste.

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Six hundred year old columns greet you in the lobby of this hotel, housed in a Renaissance palazzo a short walk from the Trevi Fountain. The team kept the bones intact, so cocciopesto plaster, Travertine stone, and a monumental marble staircase do most of the decorating. It's the kind of place that makes you feel like a guest of the building as much as the brand, which is a neat trick for a wellness hotel group.

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