Meeting and event venues in Italy

Passalacqua

Vincenzo Bellini composed at this 1787 villa on Lake Como, reopened as a 24-room hotel in 2022 and voted the world's best the following year.

24 rooms

Bulgari Hotel Roma

Opened in June 2023 inside Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo's late-1930s block on Piazza Augusto Imperatore, facing the Mausoleum of Augustus.

114 rooms

Hotel Danieli

George Sand and Alfred de Musset wintered at the Hotel Danieli in 1834, twelve years after Giuseppe Dal Niel opened it in the Dandolo family's palace.

Aman Venice

Twenty-four rooms in Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, under ceilings painted by Tiepolo, where George Clooney married in 2014.

24 rooms

Hotel Hassler Roma

The Hassler Roma has stood at the top of the Spanish Steps since 1893 and in the hands of the Wirth family since its rebuilding in 1947.

87 rooms

Hotel Eden

Open since 1889 at the top of Via Ludovisi, with a rooftop restaurant, La Terrazza, whose Michelin-starred tables look across every dome in Rome.

98 rooms

Portrait Milano

The Ferragamo family's Lungarno Collection turned the 1564 archbishop's seminary on Corso Venezia into a 73-room hotel and gave Milan a new public square in 2022.

73 rooms

Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort

The Venice Film Festival began on its terrace on 6 August 1932; the Moorish palace on the Lido beach had opened in 1908 as the flagship of CIGA.

Splendido

A sixteenth-century Benedictine monastery above Portofino harbour, a hotel since 1901 and the address Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton used in the 1960s.

Bulgari Hotel Milano

The first Bulgari hotel opened in 2004 in an 18th-century Milanese palazzo with a 4,000-square-metre garden beside the Brera botanical garden.

58 rooms

Grand Hotel Timeo

Opened in 1873 beside Taormina's Greek theatre, the Grand Hotel Timeo was the town's first hotel and still looks straight at Etna from its Literary Terrace.

71 rooms

Four Seasons Hotel Milano

A fifteenth-century convent on Via Gesù, in the middle of the fashion quarter, turned into a hotel around its cloister in 1993.

Villa Igiea

Built for the Florio family by Ernesto Basile in 1899-1900 as a sanatorium that became a hotel, with the Sala Basile frescoes by Ettore De Maria Bergler.

100 rooms

Hotel de Russie

Picasso, Cocteau and the Ballets Russes lodged at the Hotel de Russie in 1917, and its terraced garden climbing the Pincio is still its heart.

Borgo Egnazia

Borgo Egnazia hosted the G7 summit in June 2024, fourteen years after it opened as a newly built village of tufa stone beside the Roman ruins of Egnazia.

Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria

Run by the Fiorentino family since 1834 on the cliff above Sorrento's port, with a lift through the rock and the suite where Caruso spent his last summer.

Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco

Massimo Ferragamo's 2,000-hectare Val d'Orcia estate, a Brunello winery with a medieval borgo, a Tom Weiskopf golf course and a Lorenzetti fresco.

Grand Hotel a Villa Feltrinelli

Villa Feltrinelli, built in 1892 on Lake Garda, was Mussolini's wartime residence and became a 21-room hotel in 2001 after a four-year restoration.

21 rooms

Villa San Michele

A fifteenth-century Franciscan monastery on the Fiesole hillside, with a facade attributed to Michelangelo and the Duomo of Florence in the view below.

45 rooms

Caruso

Pantaleone Caruso opened a pension in the eleventh-century Palazzo d'Afflitto in 1893; the infinity pool added in 2005 hangs 300 metres above the Amalfi Coast.

Palazzo Avino

A 12th-century villa painted pink on the ridge of Ravello, 350 metres above the Amalfi Coast, with its own beach club down on the shore.

33 rooms

Hotel Savoy

A Rocco Forte house on Piazza della Repubblica whose top-floor suites look straight at Brunelleschi's dome.

Villa Cora

An 1860s villa on Viale Machiavelli where the exiled Empress Eugénie lived, reopened in 2010 with frescoed salons and a heated pool above the Boboli Gardens.

46 rooms

Verdura Resort

On 230 hectares of Sicily's south coast, Rocco Forte's Verdura Resort pairs 1.8 km of private shoreline with 45 holes of golf designed by Kyle Phillips.

203 rooms

The St. Regis Venice

Monet painted the Grand Canal from the Hotel Britannia in 1908; the same palazzi, facing the Salute, reopened as The St. Regis Venice in 2019.

169 rooms

Hotel de la Ville

An 18th-century palazzo at the top of the Spanish Steps, reopened by Rocco Forte in 2019 with Grand Tour interiors and the rooftop bar Cielo.

104 rooms

Lefay Resort & Spa Lago di Garda

Ninety-three suites and a 3,700 square metre spa on 11 hectares of old lemon terraces above Gargnano, built by the family behind Air Dolomiti.

93 rooms

San Domenico Palace, Taormina, A Four Seasons Hotel

A Dominican monastery of 1374 above the Bay of Naxos, a hotel since 1896, Four Seasons since 2021 and the set of The White Lotus in 2022.

111 rooms

Ca' Sagredo

A 15th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, seat of a doge's family from 1661, whose Longhi and Tiepolo decorations survive in a 42-room hotel.

42 rooms

Villa d'Este

A cardinal's villa of 1568 on Lake Como, home of Caroline of Brunswick, a hotel since 1873 with a swimming pool floating on the lake.

151 rooms

Grand Hotel Quisisana

An English doctor built the Quisisana in 1845 as a sanatorium, and its name, qui si sana, still means 'here one heals'.

Mandarin Oriental, Lago di Como

The soprano Giuditta Pasta, who created Bellini's Norma, lived at Blevio, and the resort built around her villa took its first name, CastaDiva, from her aria.

Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées

Ernest Hemingway convalesced here in September 1918 and later sent Frederic Henry, the hero of A Farewell to Arms, to the same hotel in Stresa.

Grand Hotel Tremezzo

Greta Garbo's character in the 1932 film Grand Hotel longs for Tremezzo, and the Art Nouveau palace she meant opened on Lake Como in 1910.

Hotel Principe di Savoia

Milan's grand hotel of 1927 on Piazza della Repubblica, where the Presidential Suite keeps a private swimming pool under a Pompeian mosaic ceiling.

301 rooms

Hotel d'Inghilterra

Opened in 1845 in the former guest quarters of the Torlonia princes, two streets from the Spanish Steps, with Hemingway and Henry James in its guest book.