Think of Americanized pretensions of English aristocratic luxury (the type of place where Tom Cruise or Madonna might want to stay), and you get an idea of the Hassler. But to be honest, it is really rather fabulous.
Telephone: + 39 (0)6 699 340
Price: from EUR 440
The Hassler crowns the top of the Spanish Steps in the centre of Rome’s designer retail streets. Via dei Condotti and Via del Babuino are at your feet. Behind is the gardens of the Villa Borghese, the city centre’s green lung with a path leading past the pulchritudinous gardens of the French embassy.
The sundown panoramas from these perches are miraculous and inimitably glamorous.
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