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Hotel San Anselmo

Hotel San Anselmo

Ripa, Municipio I, Rome

Opened 1960   $$

“Romantic Aventine hideaway”

Heritage
Quiet
Hotel San Anselmo — vibe

Vibe

Shaded by orange trees on the quiet Aventine Hill, this nineteenth-century villa faces the Benedictine abbey with a discreet residential stillness.

“Romantic Aventine hideaway”

Heritage

A nineteenth-century neoclassical villa conversion facing the Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Anselmo on the Aventine Hill.

Local

Settled in the leafy Aventine Hill district, footsteps from the Orange Garden and neighborhood belvederes.

Design

Romantic, eclectic rooms decorated with gilded moldings, velvet drapes, Venetian plaster, and clawfoot soaking tubs.

Quiet

In the leafy Aventine Hill residential district, steps from the Orange Garden and Sant'Anselmo church.

Hotel San Anselmo — rooms

Rooms

Interiors layer Venetian plaster and gilded moldings with Bisazza mosaic showers and clawfoot soaking tubs framed by heavy velvet drapes.

Hotel San Anselmo — backstory

Backstory

Built as a private patrician residence in the nineteenth century, the neoclassical villa was converted into a boutique hideaway in 1960.

Hotel San Anselmo — eat & drink

Eat & drink

Mornings begin with espresso and pastries on the garden terrace among citrus trees, shifting to wine at the lounge bar by night.

The neighborhood

The cobblestones of the Aventine Hill lead past walled convent gardens to the panoramic orange groves overlooking the Tiber and Trastevere.

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