Five-star Via Bocca di Leone, Rome
Hotel d'Inghilterra
A hotel since 1845 on Via Bocca di Leone near Piazza di Spagna, reopened in September 2024 after a year of restoration, with a bar on the sixth floor.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.
- A hotel since
- 1845
- Restored
- Reopened September 2024
- From the airport
- 40 to 65 minutes from Ciampino
The hotel
Guest house of the Torlonia.
The building began as lodgings for the guests of the Torlonia family, whose palazzo stood nearby, and the hotel dates the house to the sixteenth century. In 1837 the Duke of Bracciano, a Torlonia, bought it; the architect Antonio Sarti rebuilt it, and by 1845 it was taking paying travellers. Henry James and Mark Twain stayed, as did Oscar Wilde, Hemingway and Ezra Pound, then Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck.
Starhotels runs it in its Collezione group. Work began in 2023 on the façade and the upper floors and went on through the public rooms, and the hotel reopened on 27 September 2024. Rubelli fabrics and William Morris papers went up on the walls, and the black-and-white floor on the ground level stayed.
- Café Romano About forty covers inside and out on Via Borgognona, open to non-residents, with Andrea Sangiuliano cooking from Lazio produce.
- The old bar The Café Romano Lounge Bar kept its original counter and panelling through the restoration.
- Terrazza Romana The rooftop cocktail bar on the sixth floor, open in the warm months, with small Italian plates.
Rooms & suites
From balconies to a penthouse.
Room types run from Superior and Deluxe rooms to a range of suites, several with balconies or terraces.
- Balcony Balcony Suite On the fifth floor, each with its own balcony.
- Top floor Penthouse Suite The largest suite, with a terrace of about 70 square metres.
Dining
A Roman café and a roof bar.
Restaurant and bars as listed by the hotel. Shown for information.
- Café Romano Roman, with Lazio produce Andrea Sangiuliano
- Café Romano Lounge Bar Cocktails Angelo Di Giorgi, bar manager
- Terrazza Romana Cocktails and small plates Sixth floor, seasonal
Recognition
Recognition.
- Forbes Travel Guide Four stars, 2026
Good to know
Before you go.
- Location Between Via Condotti and Via Frattina, so most of the shopping streets around Piazza di Spagna are a few minutes on foot.
- Seasonal The rooftop bar opens for the summer season; check before travelling in winter.
Getting there
Flying to Rome.
Private jets land at Ciampino; Forbes Travel Guide gives 40 minutes to just over an hour by car, depending on traffic. Scheduled flights use Fiumicino, 40 minutes to an hour and a quarter away.
- Milan 1 h 00
- Nice 1 h 00
- Paris 1 h 50
- London 2 h 15
- New York 9 h 25 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- Does Hotel d'Inghilterra have a MICHELIN Key?
- No. The hotel is not in the 2026 MICHELIN Keys selection for Rome.
- When was Hotel d'Inghilterra last renovated?
- Work began in 2023, and the hotel reopened on 27 September 2024 with new rooms, public spaces and a rooftop bar.
- How long is the drive from the airport?
- From Ciampino, used by private jets, about 40 to 65 minutes; from Fiumicino, 40 to 75 minutes, according to Forbes Travel Guide.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Rome?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Rome, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Rome
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Bvlgari Hotel Roma A monumental 1930s building facing the Mausoleum of Augustus, with a pool lined in Bisazza mosaic.
- Orient Express La Minerva A seventeenth-century mansion that became a grand hotel in 1811, with a rooftop looking onto the Pantheon.
- Palazzo Talìa A sixteenth-century palazzo designed as a hotel by Luca Guadagnino, with a spa modelled on a Roman bath.
- Hotel de Russie Dating from 1818, with a terraced garden by Giuseppe Valadier below the Pincio.
- Hotel de la Ville Above the Spanish Steps, with a dining room by Fulvio Pierangelini, a rooftop terrace and Café Ginori.
- The St. Regis Rome Opened by César Ritz in 1894 as the Grand Hotel, with a Royal Suite of three hundred square metres.
- Hassler Roma Run by the same Swiss family since 1893, with the starred Imàgo on its sixth floor.
- Hotel Eden Opened in 1889 between Villa Borghese and Via Veneto, with La Terrazza on the top floor.
- Corinthia Rome A palazzo that once housed the Bank of Italy, new to the Keys in 2026, with a spa in the old vaults.
- Anantara Palazzo Naiadi A neoclassical building on Piazza della Repubblica, some suites looking onto the Fountain of the Naiads.
- JK Place Roma On Via di Monte d'Oro between the Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo, with canopy beds in the double rooms.
- Hotel Vilòn Its restaurant, Adelaide, sits in a small hotel in the old streets between the Lungotevere and the central squares.
- Maalot Roma A historic palazzo on Via delle Muratte, hung with contemporary art on the theme of hats, and a bar in a winter garden.
- Palazzo Ripetta A Relais & Châteaux house a short walk from both Piazza di Spagna and Piazza del Popolo.
- Palazzo Roma Thirty-nine rooms with original frescoes, coffered ceilings and Versailles parquet in a nineteenth-century palace.
- Portrait Roma Suites with kitchenettes and private terraces, part of the Lungarno Collection.
- Singer Palace Hotel Roma The 1931 building was the Italian headquarters of Singer sewing machines; Le Terrazze restaurant is on the roof.
- The First Arte Twenty-six rooms and suites in a restored nineteenth-century palazzo that is also home to the two-star Acquolina.
- Umiltà 36 Between the Quirinal and Via del Tritone, 28 rooms and 19 apartments share a terrace over the rooftops.
Staying at Hotel d'Inghilterra?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Rome, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
Opens the hotel's own website. We have no arrangement with the hotel.