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A marble statue of Emperor Augustus, on loan from the Torlonia Collection, holds court in the five-metre entrance hall of this luxury hotel on Piazza Augusto Imperatore. Rooms come in four color moods, bathrooms run to rare stone and bespoke mosaics, and the spa pools draw on ancient Roman bath architecture. Niko Romito oversees the restaurant upstairs. It sits at number 22 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list, which the building wears lightly.

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The terraced garden, tucked behind a modest Via del Babuino façade, is where the hotel makes its case. This is a Forbes Five Star Rocco Forte property in Rome's historic center, and it runs on the kind of quiet discretion that old-money travelers still seek out and new money has learned to imitate. The rooms are contemporary without trying too hard, the staff are composed, and the city feels surprisingly far away once you're inside.

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Art deco curves and inlaid panels run through a former 17th-century convent in the Tridente, making Palazzo Ripetta feel more like a private gallery than a hotel. The owner's contemporary art collection fills the public areas, which keeps things from tipping into period-costume territory. Seventy-eight rooms lean into pale tones with rich accents. The rooftop bar and open courtyard draw Romans, always a decent signal. Forbes Four Star.

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Art nouveau bones, a courtyard that feels borrowed from a film set, and the kind of slightly faded glamour that no interior designer can fake. Hotel Locarno is a historic Rome property steps from the Piazza del Popolo, and it still carries the bohemian mood that drew Fellini and his crowd decades ago. The current owner inherited it from family and has kept it exactly as it should be: atmospheric, a little theatrical, and blessedly unmodernized.

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