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A family-run eight-suite hideaway on the third floor above the Spanish Steps — run as a contemporary art gallery where the art, the beds and the lighting are all for sale.
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Need To Know
- 8 rooms and suites on the third floor, including four junior suites, each individually designed with commissioned art and bespoke furniture
- Our Favourite Rooms: the Sunrise junior suite, with the piazza in view from the bed and a custom brass-constellation headboard; Junior Suite Nine for the most space, rooftop views over Via Margutta and a glass-walled shower
- Couples and adults best suited; teenagers welcome, free cots in the junior suites for infants
- Breakfast is served next door at La Buvette (charged separately); no in-house restaurant by design
- A hidden hammam and two-person hot tub spa room, by reservation only
- The address sits in the central ZTL: luggage drop-off after 19:00 only, with parking a couple of hundred metres away
- The Master and Grand Suites hold separate CIN identification codes and run semi-independently for sole-use stays
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The unmarked entrance — a plain wooden door across a courtyard, easy to walk straight past, opening onto a private three-floor world above the piazza.
- The gallery format — rooms hung with rotating contemporary works, many by the Roman artist Nicola Guerraz, every piece on the walls for sale and shippable home.
- The hours after eight — when the staff leave, the lobby goes candlelit and a tray of whisky and grappa is set out, and the place becomes, in effect, your own Roman apartment.
- The library breakfast room — its window flung open directly over the Spanish Steps, the most-photographed staircase in the world spread out below.
- The hidden spa — a hammam and two-person hot tub tucked into the building, candlelit and scented with local oils, open by reservation only.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Piazza di Spagna 9
€307.10 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Piazza di Spagna, 9, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
Travel Info
Fiumicino is about 35 minutes by car, or the Leonardo Express reaches Termini in 32 minutes for a short taxi on. Spagna metro is a few steps away. The address is in the central ZTL — luggage drop-off after 19:00 only, with parking a short walk away.
Nearby Places
Ciampino-G. B. Pastine International Airport
15km
Spagna Metro
90m
Last Updated: 2026-06-08
Expert Review
Origins
Piazza di Spagna 9 sits exactly where its name says: number 9 on the square, on the third floor of a private palazzo facing the Spanish Steps — the 135-step stair that Roman Holiday fixed in the world's imagination. It is family-owned and family-run, and it is two things at once: a hotel of eight rooms and suites, and a working contemporary art gallery. The pieces rotate, drawn from Roman and Italian artists, and almost everything you can see — paintings, sculptures, the bed you sleep in, the light above the table — is for sale and can be shipped home.
The art is not decoration laid over a hotel; it is the concept the hotel is built around. Work by the Roman artist Nicola Guerraz recurs through the rooms, and guests can arrange a visit to his Art Lab studio in the city. The furniture is commissioned to match, so a stay doubles as a slow private viewing — the constellation headboard, the custom lighting, the canvas on the wall all carrying a price if you fall for them. Few hotels anywhere make the room itself the exhibition.
What the format buys, beyond the art, is privacy. There is no restaurant, no lobby bustle, no front-desk theatre; reception closes in the evening and the place becomes, in effect, a private apartment three floors above the most famous piazza in Rome. For travellers who already know the city — who want Rome at its most concentrated and least hotel-like, with Via Condotti's flagships thirty seconds from a door most people walk straight past — it is a singular base, more Roman residence than hotel.
Top Secret
After reception closes at eight, Piazza di Spagna 9 turns into a private apartment: the lobby goes candlelit, the library window opens over the steps, and a tray of whisky, grappa and mixers waits in the dining room for whoever wants a nightcap. Ask the staff before they leave to point out which works are Guerraz's — and which are leaving with the next buyer.
The Review
The pleasure of Piazza di Spagna 9 starts at the front door, because you have to find it: plain wood at street level, set into the flank of an old palazzo across a small courtyard, easy to miss on the first pass and meant to be. A lift lifts you three floors to the hotel proper, where the lobby reads like a collector's apartment — a few contemporary pieces, custom furniture, a library that doubles as the breakfast room with windows opening straight onto the Steps.
The eight rooms each get their own design and their own commissioned art; the Sunrise junior suite faces the piazza from the bed, Junior Suite Nine looks over the rooftops of Via Margutta, and the Master and Grand suites run semi-independently for guests taking the place for sole use. The headboard, the lamp, the canvas are likely to be works for sale, signed by named Roman artists — the wall text is a price list as much as a label. The hammam and two-person hot tub hide in a candlelit spa room, bookable privately, scented with local oils.
There is no kitchen here, by design — breakfast is next door at La Buvette — but the address turns that into an advantage. The Via Condotti shopping spine runs from the square with the Italian flagships at the top of it; Villa Borghese, Piazza del Popolo and Via del Babuino are minutes north on foot; and for dinner the city's defining tables, from Campo de' Fiori's salumerie to the historic-centre trattorie, are an easy walk south. For travellers who want central Rome at its most concentrated and least institutional — who would rather stay somewhere that behaves like a Roman home than somewhere that runs like a hotel — this is the right call.
