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A 17th-century palazzo opposite the Colosseum, restored as a family-owned luxury hotel by Count Goffredo Manfredi in 2002
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Need To Know
- 21 rooms and suites — twelve rooms, two suites, and seven Grand View Suites in the adjoining building
- Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 12:00; late check-out on request
- Our favourite rooms: the Grand View Suites are the rooms to book — the Colosseum and Ludus Magnus views from the windows and private balconies are what the property is for. The Grand View Penthouse Suite over two floors carries the most dramatic view of all. Standard rooms in the main palazzo offer the architectural authenticity but not the head-on Colosseum frame.
- Aroma restaurant tasting menu cancellations on the day of reservation incur a €110-per-person no-show fee — worth knowing before booking
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 directly opposite — the property's defining single experience
- Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio's Michelin-starred tasting menu at dinner — pumpkin and gorgonzola tagliolini with caviar, octopus and scallops, the matched wine pairing the right call
- The Court mixology bar on the ground floor — ranked in the Top 500 Bars 2021 list, run by Matteo Zed after a career stretching from Japan to New York
- Looking out at Ludus Magnus from your room — the original gladiator training gymnasium for the Colosseum, the ruins still visible from the property
- The Goffredo Manfredi private art and silverware collection on display in the reception salon, much of it available for purchase
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Palazzo Manfredi
€296.00 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Via Labicana, 125 - 00184 Rome
Travel Info
30 min from Fiumicino (FCO), 20 min from Ciampino (CIA). Roma Termini 1.5km. Property arranges airport transfer; complimentary one-way transfer for Grand View Suites. Hotel staff handle valet parking.
Nearby Places
Ciampino-G. B. Pastine International Airport
12700m
Termini Railway Station
1500m
Trevi Fountain
1700m
Capitoline Hill
240m
Colosseum
580m
Last Updated: 2026-05-13
Expert Review
Origins
"Rome only reveals over time and never in its entirety," wrote the Roman screenwriter Ennio Flaiano. Palazzo Manfredi is a building that proves him right. Designed for the Evangelisti family in the early seventeenth century by Giovanni Battista Mola, the palazzo passed through the Confraternity of the Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents in the seventeenth century, was remodelled by the noble Guidi family as a hunting lodge in the eighteenth, and was bought in 2002 by Count Goffredo Manfredi, who restored the building and opened it as a hotel.
Top Secret
A small loggia at the top of the building carries an inscription with Cicero's motto Virtute duce, comite fortuna (Virtue thy leader, fortune thy comrade) — added by Count Manfredi to honour the family's historical heritage. Visible from the Aroma rooftop, easy to miss unless someone points it out.
The Review
The pleasure of Palazzo Manfredi is the address. The Colosseum is directly opposite the building — across Via Labicana, fifty metres from the property's gate — and Ludus Magnus, the second-century gladiatorial training school that fed the Colosseum's arena, is partly visible from the windows. The property occupies a 17th-century palazzo originally built as a noble residence, restored in 2002 by Count Goffredo Manfredi (one of twentieth-century Rome's prominent industrialists; his wife Countess Enrica is descended from both Catherine the Great and Percy Bysshe Shelley, which is the kind of provenance Roman aristocratic addresses still carry).
The reception salon sets the tone — leather Chesterfield armchairs, ancient maps on the walls, silver picture frames and antique jewellery on display, much of it from the Manfredi family collection and available for purchase. Twenty-one rooms and suites occupy the original palazzo and the adjoining Grand View Suites building; the larger suites carry private balconies overlooking the Colosseum and Ludus Magnus directly.
The two reasons to book Palazzo Manfredi over other Colosseum-area hotels are both on the upper floors. Aroma, the rooftop restaurant, runs at Michelin-starred level with Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio working a seasonal tasting menu against the most photographed building in Europe — pumpkin and gorgonzola tagliolini with caviar, octopus and scallops in the primi range, lamb and pork in the secondi. The Court, the mixology bar at street level between the main palazzo and the new building, was placed forty-ninth in the Top 500 Bars list in 2021 — Matteo Zed runs the cocktail programme after a working career across Japan, the US, and Italy.
For travellers who want imperial Rome as a doorstep view rather than a checklist tick, Palazzo Manfredi earns the premium it commands. CN Traveler Readers' Choice Awards 2019 winner.
