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The cinematic vignettes at Palazzo Talìa – an artfully restored Renaissance residence soon to open in Rome’s Centro Storico – are Oscar-worthy. Magnificent architecture meets bespoke interiors from a coterie of Italian creatives, including art-house darling Luca Guadagnino. Backdropped by frescoes and classical sculptures, scenes as sensuous as any Guadignino picture are set to play out – fingers brushing across the table at the haute-Roman restaurant, eyes wandering in the steamed-up spa. As the credits roll, cue the click of your suite’s door closing…
Please note Don’t let our enticing gallery deceive you, these images for Palazzo Talìa are in fact computer generated. Apologies, real-life photographs will be with us soon…
11am. Check-in is at 3pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.
Prices
Double rooms from £651.37 (€758), including tax at 10 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €10.00 per person per night on check-out.
More details
Rates at Palazzo Talìa include an à la carte breakfast.
Also
Two Junior Suites have been adapted for guests with limited mobility. The hotel’s ground floor, including the restaurant and bar, are accessible, and there is lift access to the first and second floor. Unfortunately, the spa is not wheelchair accessible.
At the hotel
Spa, fitness room, courtyard garden, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, Bluetooth speaker, coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water and Terme di Vulci bath products.
Our favourite rooms
You’ll find the palazzo’s hallmark high ceilings in every room and suite, and each has its own art and architectural Easter eggs, too. Bespoke interiors blend this historic canvas with contemporary Italian craftsmanship, marble busts meeting Bocci bubble chandeliers. In short, there’s no short straw, but swing for the Terrace Suite to sip your morning espresso with an alfresco view of the courtyard.
Poolside
The heated indoor pool is open from 7am to 9pm. Little Smiths can join, so long as they’re accompanied by an adult.
Spa
Cloistered away at the heart of the palazzo, the spa provides a hushed-tones breather from the Centro Storico hubbub. Under original barrel-vaulted ceilings, you’ll find a sauna, a steam room and a sultry heated pool. There’s also a fitness room with cardio and weight-training equipment.
Packing tips
Puccini loaded on a playlist and your preferred art medium for when the muse strikes – if you don’t like your chances with a chisel, perhaps charcoal and a sketchpad instead.
Also
Roman busts, Renaissance frescoes… what next? Well, we’re glad you asked, because a display of 20th-century Italian art is in the works.
Children
All ages are welcome, but parental guidance is advised in this grown-up palazzo. Babysitting and nanny services can be booked on request, and there are connecting room options suitable for families.
Aperitivo in hand, let lazy afternoons dim to dusk in the leafy inner courtyard.
Dress Code
Keep things classical with unfussy tailoring and flowy silks.
Hotel restaurant
In such an attention-grabbing setting, an unseasoned chef might be tempted to draw focus with foam-and-flambé culinary bombast. Not so at Tramae, Palazzo Talìa’s refined Italian restaurant. Instead, chef Marco Coppola lets quality seasonal ingredients steal the scene, crafting traditional Roman, Neapolitan and Venetian dishes with produce straight from the surrounding countryside.
Hotel bar
Set under intricately frescoed ceilings in the oldest past of the palazzo, Bar della Musa doesn’t do drama by halves. Succumbing to some vice or other seems inevitable amid Guadagnino’s mood-setting interiors – the seductive wine list, come-hither cocktails and whole room devoted to champagne tasting seal the deal.
Last orders
Tramae serves breakfast from 7am to 11am, lunch from noon to 3pm and dinner from 7pm to 11pm. Bar della Musa pours from 11am till 1am.
Room service
A separate room service menu is available round the clock.
Palazzo Talìa crowns Largo del Nazareno, a tucked-away square a five-minute stroll from the Trevi Fountain and Piazza di Spagna.
Planes
Fiumicino Airport is around an hour’s drive away. The hotel can arrange transfers for up to two people for €120 each way, with an extra €30 fee for travel between 11pm and 6am.
Trains
High-speed services from cities including Milan, Florence and Venice arrive at Roma Termini station, about a 15-minute drive away. The hotel can arrange transfers for €90 each way.
Automobiles
There's a car park 500m from the hotel, where parking is available for Palazzo Talìa guests for €70 a night.
Worth getting out of bed for
The hotel can arrange insider experiences tailored to your interests – a private guided tour of a landmark, perhaps, or a deep-dive into Rome’s culinary scene. But in such an enviably central spot, a no-set-plan wander is just as solid a way to see the sights – the Trevi Fountain and the Piazza di Spagna are both a short stroll away, and the Pantheon, Roman Forum and Villa Borghese are all within walking distance, too. These are the streets that seduced the Romantic poets – relive their bohemian heyday at the Keats-Shelley House. Or see the studio of a Surrealist forefather at Giorgio de Chirico House.
Local restaurants
A long-standing favourite among locals and in-the-loop visitors, Il Falchetto is the place for traditional Roman dishes, sommelier-picked fine wines and puddings worth saving room for (they’ve been handmade by pastry chef Gerry for over 20 years).
It’s no mean feat nosing out a restaurant worth its salt near the Spanish Steps – that’s what makes Dillà’s friendly atmosphere and succinct menu of elegant Roman staples such a find.
Local bars
Bougainvillaea blankets the exterior of Salotto 42, a hip cocktail bar just by the Temple of Hadrian. Inside, Rome’s coolest crowd nurse dirty martinis and swap niche takes on the art tomes lining the walls. Over at fellow Smith stay Hotel de la Villa, rooftop spot Cielo woos with its panoramic city views – for a table at sunset, you’ll need to book well in advance.
Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this museum-like hotel in Italy and unpacked their Vespa-appropriate dresses and Virgil paperback that they’ve definitely read, a full account of their Centro Storico break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Palazzo Talìa in Rome…
If the walls of Palazzo Talìa could talk, they’d tell of five centuries of political intrigue, boarding school gossip and cardinals’ sins. Now, it’s been reinvented as a luxury hotel by a team of Italian tastemakers including film director Luca Guadagnino – and the scene is set for an altogether more romantic tale.
Jewel-toned frescoes have been carefully restored, vaulted ceilings and Renaissance friezes salvaged. They meet bespoke modern interiors in a scene straight from a Guadagnino film – high-saturated and seductively sensuous. Cast yourself as a silver-screen siren or beau, gliding down the spiral staircase to the spa. At dinner, go full method in your role as a Roman bon vivant, ordering a crisp Franciacorta with your finely spun Italian fare. Without leaving the palazzo, you can play the part of the inky-fingered intellectual, musing over ancient marbles and the contemporary Italian art collection. And if your curiosity is piqued, staff can arrange a behind-the-curtain tour of Rome’s cultural highlights. It takes skill and sensitivity to reimagine an old classic, but at Palazzo Talìa, the adaptation has been pulled off with panache.
