Sicilian scents in the heart of Rome

After the Hotel de Russie, the Rocco Forte group led the reopening of the Hotel de la Ville, in Trinità dei Monti, which underwent a profound restructuring that redesigned its rooms and common areas. The work led by Tommaso Ziffer, alongside Olga Polizzi, Director of Design at Rocco Forte Hotels, has played on Mediterranean and local styles, in a contemporary tribute to the concept of the eighteenth century Grand Tour. The 104 rooms and suites alternate with lively themes, intimate settings and suspended atmospheres. The terraces and the inner courtyard, designed by George Carter, specialized in the design of gardens inspired by the geometries of the seventeenth century, offer unique panoramas on Roman roofs, turning into refined spaces where guests can carve out exclusive and reserved moments in the heart of the city. To make the intervention on the structure a decision that can mark the sense of the change towards a new season of the hotel and its receptive offer, was the opening of De La Ville SPA, an area of 550 square meters designed by architect Gianfranco Tringali, with the technical consultancy of Starpool, which declined the concept of Irene Forte, wellness director of Rocco Forte Hotels, and of the SPA Manager Ana Manuela Coelho. Guests, both hotel and outdoor, can now access to the SPA area, divided into a section with Mediterranean salts, sauna, turkish bath, ice fountain, foot kneipp trays, whirlpool and plunge pool, which are joined by an area relax with infrared loungers. Then there are six cabins where expert therapists propose treatments carried out with products from the Irene Forte Skincare line, a brand developed with the formulation support of Effegilab dermatologists and biologists, prepared with natural ingredients from the organic farm of Verdura Resort, another prestigious hotel of the Group opened in Sicily, which hosts a vegetable garden of over 2600 square meters, with thousands of olive and orange trees, almond trees and cactus of prickly pear, pomegranates, lemon trees.