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A 17th-century palazzo facing the Colosseum and the gladiators' Ludus Magnus — 21 view-led rooms and a starred rooftop restaurant, family-owned in the heart of imperial Rome.
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Need To Know
- 21 rooms and suites: twelve rooms and two suites in the palazzo, seven Grand View Suites in the adjoining building, from a 25 m² Master room to the 150 m² two-floor Grand View Penthouse
- Our Favourite Rooms: the Grand View Suites for the head-on Colosseum and Ludus Magnus views from private balconies; the Penthouse over two floors for the most dramatic of all. The palazzo rooms give the architecture but not the head-on frame
- Aroma tasting-menu cancellations on the day of booking incur a no-show fee — worth knowing before reserving
- Aroma rooftop restaurant and The Court mixology bar; library, bicycles, fitness room
- Grand View Suite rates include breakfast at Aroma, a private airport transfer and a daily food and beverage credit
- Pets and parking: valet parking handled by staff; weddings and events take the Aroma terrace
- Families: a dedicated Family Suite with two connecting bedrooms, both facing the Colosseum
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- Breakfast at Aroma — on the rooftop with the Colosseum filling the view opposite, the single experience the whole property is built around.
- Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio's rooftop tasting menu — tagliolini with pumpkin, gorgonzola and caviar, octopus and scallops, the wine pairing the right call, the amphitheatre lit beyond the glass.
- The Court — the ground-floor mixology bar facing the Ludus Magnus, placed in the Top 500 Bars list in 2021, run by Matteo Zed after a career from Japan to New York.
- The Ludus Magnus from your window — the second-century gladiator school that trained the men who fought across the road, its ruins still in the ground below.
- The Manfredi salon — Chesterfields, ancient maps, the family's silver frames and antique jewellery on display in reception, much of it quietly for sale.
Key Features
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€296.00 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Via Labicana, 125 - 00184 Rome
Travel Info
Fiumicino is about 30 minutes by car, Ciampino 20, and Roma Termini 1.5 km. The hotel arranges transfers — complimentary one-way for Grand View Suites — and handles valet parking. The Colosseum is across the road, and most of imperial Rome is walkable.
Nearby Places
Ciampino-G. B. Pastine International Airport
12700m
Termini Railway Station
1500m
Trevi Fountain
1700m
Capitoline Hill
240m
Colosseum
580m
Last Updated: 2026-06-08
Expert Review
Origins
Rome only reveals itself over time, and never in its entirety," wrote the screenwriter Ennio Flaiano, and Palazzo Manfredi proves him right by hiding three centuries inside one address. The palazzo was designed in the early seventeenth century by Giovanni Battista Mola for the Evangelisti family, sold to the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents, and remodelled by the noble Guidi family in the eighteenth century as a hunting lodge — a city building turned country retreat at the edge of imperial Rome.
Its modern chapter began in 2002, when Count Goffredo Manfredi, one of twentieth-century Rome's leading developers, bought the palazzo and opened it as a hotel run on the family's own style of welcome. He and his wife, Countess Enrica — whose lineage the family traces to Russian imperial nobility and to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley — filled it with their collection of art, maps and silver, and set Cicero's maxim on the rooftop loggia: Virtute duce, comite fortuna, virtue as guide, fortune as companion. The hotel stays in the family still.
What no owner arranged is the view. The building stands over the Ludus Magnus, the second-century training school where gladiators prepared for the arena across the road, and faces the Colosseum head-on — close enough that the rooftop tables, the suite balconies and half the windows frame the most recognised building on earth. Two thousand years of Rome happen to sit in the foreground; the palazzo simply had the sense to point its best rooms at them.
Top Secret
A small loggia at the very top of the building carries an inscription with Cicero's motto, Virtute duce, comite fortuna — added by Count Manfredi to honour the family line, visible from the Aroma rooftop but easy to miss unless someone points it out. Ask at dinner; the staff know exactly where to look.
The Review
The pleasure of Palazzo Manfredi is the address. The building stands over the Ludus Magnus — the gladiatorial training school that fed the Colosseum's arena, its ruins still in the ground below — and faces the amphitheatre across Via Labicana, a few minutes' walk from the gate. The reception salon sets the tone: leather Chesterfields, antique maps, silver frames and old jewellery from the Manfredi collection, much of it quietly for sale. Twenty-one rooms and suites fill the palazzo and the adjoining Grand View building, the larger ones opening private balconies straight onto the Colosseum.
The two reasons to choose it over its neighbours are both upstairs. Aroma, the rooftop restaurant, holds a Michelin star under Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio, who works a seasonal tasting menu against the floodlit amphitheatre — tagliolini with pumpkin, gorgonzola and caviar, octopus and scallops among the primi, lamb and pork to follow. The Court, the mixology bar at street level between the two buildings, made the Top 500 Bars list in 2021, with Matteo Zed running the cocktails after years between Japan, New York and Rome.
The rooms keep faith with the setting — contemporary design playing against seventeenth-century bones, travertine bathrooms, sliding glass walls that pull the ruins inside. It is a small hotel, deliberately, and the scale is the point: this is imperial Rome taken as a private view rather than a queue. For travellers who want the Colosseum as the thing they wake up to rather than the thing they tick off, Palazzo Manfredi earns its premium — and the Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice voters agreed, naming it among their winners in 2019.
