The Portrait
Via Sistina starts at the top of the Spanish Steps, which means this address is above the crowd rather than in it — you walk down into the centre and you take the steps or the lift back up. It is a Rocco Forte house, and it belongs in a collection of residences for one reason: the suites are the size of apartments.
The Suite de la Ville with Terrace is 103 square metres, 1,108 square feet. The Three-Bedroom Roma Suite is 145 square metres with three separate terraces. Above them the De La Ville Panoramic Penthouse is 358 square metres — 3,853 square feet, six bedrooms, spread over the seventh and eighth floors, and quoted only through the group’s bespoke reservations desk.
Say the thing that is missing, plainly: there is no kitchen in any of them, only a bar. This is a hotel that suits a long stay because of its space, its rooftop, Cielo, and the Irene Forte Spa downstairs — not because you will cook. No nightly rate is published; the reservations line above quotes by dates.
Who it suits: a month in Rome with family or staff where floor area and a terrace matter more than a kitchen, and where somebody else should be making breakfast.
Written by the Selloua editors from the address’s own published facts. Nothing in this entry was paid for.