The Duke Hotel, Via Archimede 69, 00197 Rome / Italy.
The historic centre of Rome, the Vatican City and the Basilica of Saint Peter are listed by the UNESCO a World Cultural Heritage. Rome was for more than two and a half thousand years the largest city in the world with a great history with many historical buildings, like the Pantheon, the oldest standing domes structure in the city, the Colosseum, the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman Empire, spectacular triumphal arches, churches and palaces, splendid fontains, the Roman Forum, the Baths of Caracalla and the Castel Sant'Angelo.
Villa Borghese is a magnificent landscape garden in the style of an English garden in Rome with several buildings, mueseums, such as the Galleria Borghese, and attractions. The villa and the huge park, with as size of 148 acres, was originally the sommer residence of the noble family Borghese. In 1605, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a nephew of Pope Paul V, began turning this former vineyard into the most extensive gardens built in Rome since the antiquity. Scipione Borghese, son of Francisco Caffarelli and Ortensia Borghese, was an Italian Renaissance Cardinal and an art collector and a patron of arts. The gardens are the second largest public park in Rome after the Villa Doria Pamphili. The Villa Borghese gardens were developed for the Villa Pinciana (Borghese Villa on the Pincian Hill) and designed by the architects Giavanni Vasanzio and Flaminio Ponzio.
The Borghese Gallery (Galleria Borghese) housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana and is a famous art art gallery in Rome. The Galleria Borghese hosts a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiques, began by Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Situated in the very heart of the highly exclusuve and splendid area of "Parioli" in the city centre of Rome, The Duke Hotel was opened in July 2000. From here, it's near to the Piazza Spagna, Via della Croce and Via del Babuino, where the finest boutiques and historical sites can be found. The Duke Hotel is a haven of elegance and tranquillity and offers a residential and intimate feeling with impeccable and personalized service. This elegant hotel combines the warmth od an English club with Italian traditional bourgeois style and is offers elegance and grandeur. The public areas are decorated with luxurious and cosy sofas by the fireplace and original paintings and prints. The corridors and staircase are decorated with original stone capitals. Duke Hotel is situated in an ideally place to explore Rome, between the beautiful parks of Villa Glori, the famous Villa Borghese and the Music Auditorium.
The Duke Hotel offers 64 elegantly and comfortably furnished guestrooms and 14 luxurious junior suites and suites on six floors, and all of them are tastefully decorated in the colour shades of warm orange, beige and rich green.
The Restaurant "I Duchi" offers lunch and dinner and serves traditional and authentic Italian cuisine and international specialities and the cosy "Polo Lounge and Bar" is a popular meeting point for a cocktail or an refreshing drink.
The new Paolo Caschera Wellness and Beauty Area offers the latest wine-based and Ayurvedic facial and body treatments.
The Duke Hotel provides five tastefully decorated meeting and banquet rooms with latest conference technology for up to 150 people for business and social events.
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The Duke Hotel is perfect for city journeys to Rome / Italy Pets are welcome to The Duke Hotel (on request)
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