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Style and class hidden in plain sight
The Hotel Nardizzi Americana, in Rome, Italy
(Via Veneto)
Nicola and Fabrizio have transformed their hotel into one of the best two-stars in town while keeping the rates way down. Admittedly, this is in part because this hotel isn't the most convenient for sightseeing, tucked into a corner of the historic center little trafficked by tourists (but that can be a good thing, no?).
I don't mean to make it sound isolated; it's just not in the eever-popular Tiber Bend area. In point of fact, it's about halfway between Termini rail station and Villa Borghese park, and within 3-5 blocks of some primo sights: the painting gallery of Palazzo Barberini, two branches of the Museo Nazionale Romano, the Michelangelo-designed Santa Maria degli Angeli, Santa Maria della Vittoria with its amazing Bernini sculpture group, the cafe-lined Via Veneto, and the Rome opera house. Let's just call it centrally located but away from the madding crowds.
The style of the hotel's decor is inspired by ancient Rome, with a patterned tile decor giving an inlaid-stone look to the public-area floors, and a narrow terrace (open in nice weather, enclosed in winter) where you take breakfast. The rooms now have richly patterned curtains and bedspreads—a few even boast wood-beam ceilings—and new bathrooms. Although the smaller rooms were given built-in dressers, the larger ones got walk-in closets. Several are triples and quads large enough for families.
One drawback: There’s no double-glazing on the old-style windows, so for quiet, avoid rooms on the heavily trafficked Via XX Settembre side.
Via Firenze 38, next to the Defense Ministry, just of Via XX Settembre, about two blocks down from of Largo S. Susanna/Piazza S. Bernardo.
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This article was last updated in August 2007. All information was accurate at the time.
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