Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Villa Spalletti Trivelli Ingela Vagsund For all of Rome’s popularity, it’s been a bit of a funny city for hotels. There are a few independent classics and outposts of niche micro-brands. In the past couple of years, big international luxury brands have started tiptoeing in, with openings from Edition, Six Senses and Anantara.
And if reports are to be believed, more than two dozen name-brand luxury hotels—Mandarin Oriental among them—are in the pipeline for the next five years. All of this makes the city’s discreet, family-owned properties even more precious. If staying in a brand-new, international property leaves one with the choice of being out soaking up the city or relaxing in a could-be-anywhere hotel bar, these historic homes solve that problem.
Their guests stay thoroughly connected to Rome—or at least one family’s take on one particular epoch of it—without being out in the crowded streets or under the hot sun. The discreet entrance to Villa Spalletti Trivelli Ingela Vagsund Villa Spalletti Trivelli “Welcome to my family’s house. It’s very young by Rome standards,” says Andrea Spalletti simply as he begins a tour of Villa Spalletti Trivelli .
The house was built in 1901 by his great-great-grandparents. But if it’s “young,” it’s certainly full of history. That great-great-grandfather was part of the royal court in a northern region of Italy, and his wife was a lady-in-waiting.
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