Known
in the early 1900s as the “Palace of the Ambasciatori” it had been
conceived as an hotel for diplomats from the nearby embassies. Rome’s Ambasciatori Palace Hotel is an historic building on the Via Veneto, one of the world’s most famous streets.
This elegant avenue meanders through a former agricultural estate
which was purchased and redesigned at the start of the 17th century by
Cardinal Prince Ludovico Ludovisi who turned it into one of the most
handsome and luxurious districts in the city. Designed by the
well-known architect Carlo Busiri Vici the Ambasciatori Palace Hotel,
which celebrated its first hundred years in 2005, was built between
1900 and 1905.
From 1993 to 2001 the building underwent restoration which not only
modernized it but at the same time brought it back to its former early
20th-century splendour.
The ancient stuccowork on the cornices, the ceilings, the arches
and capitals, the Brazilian granite columns, marble and polychrome
mosaic floors, and the intricate wrought-iron balustrade of the main
staircase were all returned to their original magnificence.
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