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A 19th-century palace between Via Veneto and the Borghese Gardens, with a rooftop that frames St Peter's, the Quirinale and the Trinità dei Monti from a single table.
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Need To Know
- Rooms and suites across many categories, from Premium doubles to terraced and Jacuzzi penthouse suites; the upper floors and terrace suites carry the views, marble bathrooms throughout
- Our Favourite Rooms: the Penthouse Villa Medici and Terrace suites for the private terraces facing the Vatican and the Spanish Steps; the Grand Splendide doubles on the upper floors for the view without the terrace. Skip the lower interior-facing rooms — the skyline is the point
- Pets on request (charges apply); valet parking and nearby garages
- The Mirabelle rooftop restaurant and the Adèle sky bar crown the building; the Crystal Lounge serves breakfast over the gardens
- Spa access at the sister Parco dei Principi's Prince Spa nearby; in-house Technogym fitness room and butler service
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The Mirabelle rooftop at sunset — a gourmet terrace where St Peter's dome, the Quirinale and the Trinità dei Monti sit in a single 270-degree sweep, the most concentrated view from any hotel in Rome.
- The Adèle sky bar — the top-floor cocktail terrace, opened in 2021, taking the same panorama into the aperitivo hour and on under the stars.
- The Borghese Gardens at the door — a five-minute walk to the Galleria Borghese, the Pincio terrace and the lake's rowing boats, the rare central-Rome pleasure with no traffic in it.
- The palace itself — frescoed ceilings, gilt-framed canvases and the lobby's Murano chandeliers, the same ones Visconti lit for The Leopard, kept through Roberto Naldi's restoration.
- The position — the quiet aristocratic quarter above Via Veneto, three minutes from the avenue, six from the Spanish Steps, with the Tridente's shopping a short walk south.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Hotel Splendide Royal
€287.50 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Via Gerolamo Frescobaldi, 500198 Rome, Italy
Travel Info
Roma Termini is two kilometres away — a short taxi or twenty-minute walk — and the Leonardo Express links Fiumicino to Termini in 32 minutes. Spagna metro is a few minutes on foot, and the historic centre is walkable from the door.
Nearby Places
Ciampino-G. B. Pastine International Airport
14900m
Spagna Metro
370m
Colosseum
1900m
Spanish Steps
490m
Last Updated: 2026-06-08
Expert Review
Origins
The Hotel Splendide Royal occupies the old guest-house wing of the Ludovisi-Boncompagni palace, built at the end of the nineteenth century for one of Rome's great aristocratic dynasties — a family descended from a union of 1681 that counted a pope among its forebears — in the elevated, quiet quarter between Via Veneto and the Borghese Gardens. Where the hotel lobby now stands, carriages were once stored; the wing itself housed the family's guests.
History broke the palace up. With the abolition of noble titles under Fascism the building was divided and went its own way, passing for a time to the Maronite community, who kept it as a monastery. Its hotel life began in 2001, when the Italian hotelier Roberto Naldi acquired it and restored it over two years as the flagship of his collection, naming it for the family's historic Splendide Royal in Lugano. The work kept what mattered — the facade's original frescoes and friezes, the coffered ceilings, the Murano chandeliers in the public rooms, the same ones Visconti lit when he filmed The Leopard — and added the things a modern grand hotel needs.
The defining gesture came upward. The building rose to a rooftop that holds the most concentrated view in Rome: from the Mirabelle gourmet restaurant and, since 2021, the Adèle sky bar beside it, a 270-degree sweep takes in St Peter's dome to the west, the Quirinale to the south, the Borghese greenery to the north and the Trinità dei Monti to the east — the four poles of the city from a single terrace. Below it, the Borghese Gardens begin at the door, and Via Veneto runs three minutes south. The Splendide trades on a simple Roman truth: the higher you stand, the more of the city you own.
Top Secret
The Mirabelle terrace is the only rooftop in Rome from which St Peter's, the Quirinale, the Trinità dei Monti and the Vittoriano are all visible at once — and the corner nearest the Borghese end is the seat to ask for at the sunset hour. Come up for the aperitivo even if you are dining elsewhere; the view is the meal.
The Review
The Splendide Royal sits in the calmer half of central Rome, the residential quarter the city's aristocracy built between the Borghese Gardens and Via Veneto, which has kept its scale where the Tridente and the Pantheon district lost theirs. The public rooms hold the palace's Baroque proportions — marble underfoot, gilt-framed canvases, salons hung with Murano glass — and the bedrooms run from compact Premium doubles to terraced penthouse suites, the ones worth booking opening onto private terraces above the rooftops.
The eighth-floor rooftop is the reason the hotel ranks where it does. Mirabelle is a gourmet kitchen built on Roman and seasonal Italian cooking under chef Daniele Sera; the Adèle bar beside it opens earlier and runs into the night; and the 270-degree panorama — St Peter's, the Quirinale, the gardens, the Trinità dei Monti — is simply the widest sweep of Rome any hotel terrace offers. Breakfast happens a couple of floors down at the Crystal Lounge, the gardens green to the north.
What sets the address apart is the park at the door. Mornings start with a walk into the Borghese — to the Galleria, the Pincio terrace, the little lake with its rowing boats — the rare pleasure in central Rome that involves no traffic at all. The Spanish Steps are six minutes south, Via Veneto three, the Galleria fifteen through the trees; spa hours are taken at the sister Parco dei Principi's Prince Spa nearby. For travellers who want the centre with room to breathe — the Tridente when they want it, the gardens when they don't, the rooftop when neither will do — the Splendide earns its position.
